Some excellent comments in this article.
The Left's postmortem on Labour's defeat
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/500390/the-left-s-postmortem-on-labour-s-defeat
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In the case of the economic conditions of our country, the numbers don’t lie and ours are pretty good. As I write this, while New Zealand is suffering the effects of post-Covid neoliberal economics like the rest of the world, we are actually doing ok, and considerably better than most. ...
But we have been at least heading in the right direction in all the statistics we measure - except climate change
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I started this blog page some months ago, after discovering Substack through David Farrier- but it has sat idle until this morning. This morning I have woken up to a New Zealand I don’t know, and one that frankly, I am scared of. The newly elected coalition between the New Zealand National Party, and the Act Party will impact all our lives, and I fear that this will not be in the ways that people have been lead to believe, for the price of their vote.