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“It’s the last bus stop in the world,” a former New Zealand prime minister once told me while he was visiting New York. Indeed a remote South Pacific island nation of merely 5 million souls, known for the Kiwi, its All Blacks rugby team and some pretty good wines, was sadly hobbled by a woke progressive government who turned the once-idyllic place into a land beset by inflation, unaffordable housing and rampant crime and gangs.

Taking the local out of the boards The mayor’s proposed cull of Auckland local boards is premature. The Local Government Commission will require proof of...

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A larger Green Party caucus says it's open to working with National on climate, light rail, and preventing family violence

By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 16 October 2023 Original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/16/arcd-o16.html New Zealand’s Labour Party government suffered an historic defeat in Saturday’s election. According to preliminary results, Labour’s support virtually halved from ...

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Luxon disrupts 6 prior years of liberal rule

Contrary to the media headlines calling the election a shift to the right, it was marked by low turnout that reflects growing hostility to Labour, the National Party and all the capitalist parties.