JOHN MINTO : PUTTING HIS TRUST IN THE MAORI PARTY

John Minto rejects the politics and polices of the Labour Party and the Green's but he still wants to see Labour re-elected. He's pu...

THE REVOLUTION DOESN'T START HERE

  This past week Labour MP Tamati Coffey boasted that he was responsible for the new  bilingual elevators in the Beehive. Meanwhile the Mao...

GAME OVER FOR KAUPAPA MAORI PARTIES

The decision of Willie Jackson to throw in his lot with the Labour Party, after reportedly being assured by the Labour leadership of a high...

A ROTTEN BUDGET FROM A ROTTEN GOVERNMENT

As I speculated in a previous post, this Budget represents a shifting of wealth from labour to capital and represents a serious and orches...

EMPTY GESTURE

When the Maori flag flies on all government buildings on Waitangi Day it'll fly in a country where the Maori working class - like their ...

A BIT OF THE OLD SHIMMY-SHAMMY

With Phil Goff and the Labour Party unable to make any real headway in the opinion polls, the venal politics of the Maori Party were just si...

HARAWIRA IS WRONG

Why are so many people shocked by the views that Maori Party MP Hone Harawira voiced in a private email? Yes, Harawira has apologised for ...

WHAT'S IN A LETTER?

Should it be 'Wanganui' or 'Whanganui'? This was the crucial question that was taxing the minds of politicians, media comme...

PETER SHARPLES INSULTS MAORI

Peter Sharples, co-leader of the reactionary Maori Party, is in a huff with Labour. And he's getting all high and mighty about it. The r...

SMALL CHANGE

A few weeks ago Business New Zealand chief executive chief Phil O'Reilly was on TV1's Breakfast talking about the need for 'wor...