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NZ Initiative wants to answer a question no one asked
A new piece perfectly encapsulates their strategy of framing an argument in terms that make it easy to dismiss opposing criticisms rather than engage…
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I am not a bot - video poem by Stephanie McKee
Last week, I shared Stephanie's Regulatory Standards Bill submission poem. She has given me permission to share a video of her rendering.
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People are a public good
Personal identity is the final frontier of capitalist enclosure-and we are self-enclosing
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Seymour's red-tape monster: My Regulatory Standards Bill submission
An ideological bludgeon to be wielded against regulation that is in the public good
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Poetry as resistance: Stephanie McKee's Regulatory Standards Bill submission
McKee chose a unique and funny inclusion with her submission. I share it with her permission.
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The slander of the commons
Garrett Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" is an influential example of a long tradition of justifying enclosure based on asserting the flawed morality…
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The Regulatory Standards Bill will change everything
The bill signals a profoundly ideological shift in the purpose of lawmaking and regulation
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May 2025

If we don't choose socialism it won't matter what we choose instead
The rich do not care if you live or die and they will kill you if they need to
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The long neoliberal con
The Regulatory Standards Bill is another attempt by Act leader David Seymour to prioritise corporations over the collective rights and good of the…
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Regulatory takings: The ace up the corporate sleeve
The Regulatory Standards Bill sets up a legal framework for corporations to challenge regulation that impacts their profits, with government and Māori…
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The pay-equity debate centers on the meaning of labor
Is labor a commodity or does it have and create value?
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Seymour feels his chance slipping away
A string of high-profile political losses is making it harder to control the narrative. Could Seymour's time be almost up?
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