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Getting caught in traffic is an inconvenience, sure, but at least there s a final destination in mind. Small talk with that friend of a friend when you’re momentarily abandoned together at a party is painful, but there’s the promise of eventual rescue. Even the most moribund of matches are only supposed to last 90 minutes before the referee mercifully blows the whistle.
Yet draft notices into the latest round of the Australian footballing culture wars can feel as inevitable as they are unending: any movement from the smallest alteration to the most monumental change seemingly unable to avoid being picked up and hurled into a maelstrom of egos, demagoguery, pietism and, sometimes, downright stupidity on the frustratingly slow road to progress.
The progressive fault lines facing New Zealand in 2021 and beyond
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Despite a popular and unifying leader of the governing party, divisions both in policy and culture will test the progressive movement, writes Peter McKenzie.
‘I think we’re confused.” Marlon Drake is an organiser for the Living Wage Movement. His job takes him all over Wellington, trying to convince businesses to increase their minimum wages to $22.10. He works with churches, unions, political parties and charities; every facet of the progressive movement.
And right now, according to Drake, “The progressive movement is very confused about what it is, what its purpose it is, what it looks like, how it operates, who leads it – which person or what people.”
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its long-awaited two-volume Taskforce Report on Consumer Financial Law (the Report) as expected last week, following a yearlong effort. While advisory in nature, it is written with an intent to influence consumer finance law for decades to come. And while the Taskforce was criticized for lacking any consumer advocates among its members, the Report more often than not generally expands in detail on themes that could have fit just as well in Obama-era reports or views we expect to see expressed in a CFPB led by a Biden administration appointee. We explain in detail below.