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Monday, October 31, 2022

Democracy wins in Brazil

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Brazilians went to the polls today in a run-off presidential election, and voted narrowly to re-elect former President Luiz InĂ¡cio Lula da ...

Time for a windfall tax

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Last week ANZ bank reported a record $2.3 billion profit - a full 0.6% of total GDP gouged out of our economy. And earlier in the year the ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Climate Change: Bad news and hope

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The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference begins next weekend, and in the run-up we have the usual series of UN reports reminding u...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

There's more than one way to tame inflation

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ANZ bank today reported a record profit of $2.3 billion - 0.6% of our total GDP going straight into the pockets of the rich. Meanwhile, the...

This is not how you build trust

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One of the recommendations of the Operation Burnham inquiry into the killing of civillians in Afhganistan by the SAS was the establishment ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Labour actually achieves something!

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Well, it finally happened: two years into its term, the Labour government finally achieved something : The Fair Pay Agreements Bill has pas...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

A victory for worker's rights

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The Employment Court has ruled that four Uber drivers are employees rather than "independent contractors" : Uber drivers in New Z...

Mahuta, cosyism, and ethical standards

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The Herald this morning has another episode in its campaign against Nanaia Mahuta, this time focusing on her role in appointing a young rel...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Climate Change: Why farmers should pay their way

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Newsroom 's Marc Daalder has a look today at agricultural emissions, and concludes that pricing livestock pollution is reasonable, roote...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

A problem of oversight

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Last week, RNZ had a horrifying story about MBIE hiring a firm of Israeli cyber-mercenaries for intelligence collection , including on peop...

Farmers need to earn their social licence

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Last week, Labour grovelled to the sacred cow , releasing an agricultural emissions plan which was basicly a plan to subsidise their emissio...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Climate Change: A slow victory over coal

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The climate movement has a lot of strands, with different philosophies of action and targets for change. Some target governments, some push ...

Member's Day

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Today is a Member's Day, but once again looks to be a boring one. First up there is a pair of third readings for Rachel Boyack's Pla...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Coming home to roost

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Labour is a status quo party. Like National, they're committed to low debt, low taxes, and absolutely no wealth taxes on rich people li...
Monday, October 17, 2022

User-pays democracy for some, but not for others

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Back in September, the Wellington City Council effectively killed the School Strike for Climate march by demanding they pay an unaffordable ...

Keep chokepoint capitalism out of our justice system

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RNZ this morning has a significnat story about the police's plans to shift all their criminal case evidence into a cloud service owned ...
Friday, October 14, 2022

A failure of management

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Today National MP Barbara Kuriger resigned her agriculture, biosecurity and food safety portfolios due to a conflict of interest - specific...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Labour's response to police racism: legalise it!

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Last month, the the Privacy Commissioner and Independent Police Conduct Authority issued a joint report on their investigation into the pol...

Still unfit to govern

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Yesterday the government announced its plan to reduce agricultural emissions. The plan is weak bullshit , but because it involves them takin...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Climate Change: Labour grovels to the sacred cow

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Today, the government unveilled its response to He Waka Eke Noa 's bullshit proposals to subsidise farmers through complicated spreash...
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