Thank baby Jesus Bishop Tamaki will run in the election splitting Ngaro’s’ Angels
We must seek to goad both men to launch their own Christian Parties by actively feeding both their narcissisms with gushing praise.
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NZer of the Year Dr Lance O’Sullivan joins The People’s Budget
Just when you thought The People’s Budget hosted by Bryan Bruce and with panelists Rod Oram, Sue Bradford, Russel Norman, Efeso Collins, Professor Jane Kelsey and Julia Whaipooti was a great way to debate if neoliberal economics can build a well being budget, news tonight that NZer of the Year, Dr Lance O’Sullivan will also be joining the panel.
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The 3.5% hope for climate strike students
This is the time to push and fight. Once we hit 3.5%, the State is forced to change, don’t let the detractors inject you with apathy and impotence. We are far stronger than we know.
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The New Zealand media’s shameful silence on Israeli apartheid
By John Minto
Last week full-page advertisements appeared across New Zealand celebrating 71 years since Israel declared independence. They were placed by a Pastor Nigel Woodley from Hastings – a Christian Zionist – and paid for from the deep pockets of his backers.
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Armed Cops turning up to strikes is unacceptable, where is the Minister for Police on this?
It only takes one dumb panicked ill-trained cop to suddenly escalate events.
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Green gains a bright spot in a depressing Australian election
By Keith Locke
Australia’s election result was a big downer. But there was a bright spot in the gains made by the Australian Greens.
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On a brief history of death threats
The attempt by some to make the latest threat a unique moment in history is embarrassing.
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The arrogance and ignorance of Alfred Ngaro is as breathtaking as his misplaced self-assured smugness
I feel stupid even having to state something so obvious, but post the Alabama decision and the rise of the religious right wanting to control women’s bodies, it’s time for clear cut and serious pushback.
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Parliament has a toxic culture – when you consider what public service do to beneficiaries are you surprised?
Let’s dump the faux shock, it’s beneath our collective intelligence.
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Review: Game of Thrones- 8 year review – 5 stars (spoiler alerts)
No other show has managed to imprint the way GoT has culturally. It permeates social media and popular culture in a unique way that manages to slot effortlessly into the multi narrative world social media now provides.
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The Liberal Agenda – 12pm Post Budget livestream Friday 31st for the first Wellbeing Budget
Each year Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) provides child-focused analysis and commentary of the budget. The aim is to provide an accessible and affordable avenue for the community to come together and hear about how the budget affects children and young people, especially our most vulnerable who live in poverty.
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Unwilling To Disclose.
By Chris Trotter
The suspicion arises that in 2014-2015, in some unspecified, possibly unlawful, and highly secretive way, the country’s national security apparatus was working hand-in-glove with senior elements within the police to silence and punish a couple of outspoken critics of the National-led 2008-2017 Coalition Government.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: Ngaro in Botany, Christchurch call, Police admission on social media watchlist, Game of Thrones Finale, Water Issues
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Setting The Agenda View All →
Green gains a bright spot in a depressing Australian election
Australia’s election result was a big downer. But there was a bright spot in the gains made by the Australian Greens.
Read More →The New Zealand media’s shameful silence on Israeli apartheid
Last week full-page advertisements appeared across New Zealand celebrating 71 years since Israel declared independence. They were placed by a Pastor Nigel Woodley from Hastings – a Christian Zionist – and paid for from the deep pockets of his backers.
Read More →Miracles and migrants
Over the years I’ve had gripping conversations with people who’ve said I don’t belong on the Left of politics because of my socially conservative views. Conversely, folk on the Right have said they wouldn’t welcome me because of my perceived economic liberalism.
Read More →Dr Liz Gordon – Oh no, not more exams!
The Minister intends to fix the terrible workloads that this causes, not by reducing the qualification burden but by shifting from internal to external assessment and thus reducing the assessment burden on teachers.
Of all the reforms possible, he has chosen the worst one. I will debate this with anyone. I have studied assessment systems for over 30 years and I know as much as anyone about them. So here is the truth about assessment systems in five easy lessons.
The fantasy world of Alfred Ngaro
Whatever Ngaro may offer the country as a conservative Christian leader it won’t be compassion, tolerance, justice or truth. Instead it will be a conservative straitjacket of bigotry, arrogance and injustice.
Read More →Hadley Robinson-Lewis: In 2019 women live in fear.
Women need allies now more than ever.
Read More →Israel Lobby influence in New Zealand
In a Press Release published on 28 April, ACT MP David Seymour took our Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt, to task because he had “failed to condemn” what he asserted was “the anti-Semitism of UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Read More →Inquiry will miss the main issue which keeps us at risk
The most worrying aspect of the commission of inquiry into the Christchurch shootings is that the terms of reference give too much room for our security agencies – the SIS and GCSB – to hide.
Read More →Deconstructing Headlines View All →
Cough-cough more than 11000 still on waiting list for state housing
The Government want to call it ‘social’ housing rather than state housing so that the responsibility sounds like it’s a problem the community has to solve and not the state.
Read More →The 3.5% hope for climate strike students
This is the time to push and fight. Once we hit 3.5%, the State is forced to change, don’t let the detractors inject you with apathy and impotence. We are far stronger than we know.
Read More →Thank baby Jesus Bishop Tamaki will run in the election splitting Ngaro’s’ Angels
We must seek to goad both men to launch their own Christian Parties by actively feeding both their narcissisms with gushing praise.
Read More →Armed Cops turning up to strikes is unacceptable, where is the Minister for Police on this?
It only takes one dumb panicked ill-trained cop to suddenly escalate events.
Read More →On a brief history of death threats
The attempt by some to make the latest threat a unique moment in history is embarrassing.
Read More →Parliament has a toxic culture – when you consider what public service do to beneficiaries are you surprised?
Let’s dump the faux shock, it’s beneath our collective intelligence.
Read More →The arrogance and ignorance of Alfred Ngaro is as breathtaking as his misplaced self-assured smugness
I feel stupid even having to state something so obvious, but post the Alabama decision and the rise of the religious right wanting to control women’s bodies, it’s time for clear cut and serious pushback.
Read More →ACT vs Greens, culture wars & threatening Golriz
In the culture war between ACT and the Greens – ACT says freedom of speech trumps all while the Greens argue micro aggressions lead directly to macro violence.
Read More →Media Watch View All →
Waatea News Column: Banning Prisoners from voting impacts Māori worst
The debate over Prisoners being able to vote has begun in the Waitangi Tribunal as argument is heard that the ban is a breach of the Treaty because it is so disproportionately unfair to Māori.
Read More →NZer of the Year Dr Lance O’Sullivan joins The People’s Budget
Just when you thought The People’s Budget hosted by Bryan Bruce and with panelists Rod Oram, Sue Bradford, Russel Norman, Efeso Collins, Professor Jane Kelsey and Julia Whaipooti was a great way to debate if neoliberal economics can build a well being budget, news tonight that NZer of the Year, Dr Lance O’Sullivan will also be joining the panel.
Read More →Review: Game of Thrones- 8 year review – 5 stars (spoiler alerts)
No other show has managed to imprint the way GoT has culturally. It permeates social media and popular culture in a unique way that manages to slot effortlessly into the multi narrative world social media now provides.
Read More →The People’s Budget to screen 8pm Sunday 2nd June
Comrades – are you sick of neoliberal economics ruining our changes of a truly transformative progressive economy?
Me too!
Here’s what Bryan Bruce and a I have been working on, The People’s Budget 2019…
Read More →Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: Ngaro in Botany, Christchurch call, Police admission on social media watchlist, Game of Thrones Finale, Water Issues
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: Ngaro in Botany, Christchurch call, Police admission on social media watchlist, Game of Thrones Finale, Water Issues
Read More →Waatea News Column: I will continue writing about the state taking children until something meaningful has occurred
If you have the privilege of a platform, you must endeavour to use that platform for good. I have written previous columns about the extraordinary abuse of power by the state when they take children into their ‘care’.
Read More →Paula Bennett is a political coward
Let’s get this straight, Paula Bennett is such a coward, that she refused to appear on a TV panel with Chloe Swarbrick to debate cannabis reform?
Read More →The PMs censorship panel highlights all that’s wrong with the current social media/free speech debate
So the panel advising the PM on censuring the internet is an industry spokesperson, a corporate media interest, an angry Twitter rage tech person, a lawyer, a state wonk and someone who used to sing Popera?
And this isn’t a joke?
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Hate in the time of the Internet
Twenty- two years ago I made a documentary about mass murder in which I had the harrowing experience of interviewing the families of the mass murder victims. Back then (1997) I recommended banning military style semi automatic weapons and registering ALL guns, as did Justice Thorp in his report published around that time.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – I have just signed a petition to parliament by 13 year old Sinead Latimer
We have the highest rate of teenage suicide in the developed world. According to Stephen Bell (Director of Youthline ) In a average week two teenagers kill themselves and about 20 young people will be hospitalised for self-harm each week, he estimated.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Prime Minister is remarkable
There is no question our Prime Minister is a truly remarkable person.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – America: Rogue State
The trouble with schoolyard bullies is; sooner or later the smaller kids catch up. And as Great Britain and France found out: EMPIRES DIE.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Edward Miller – Why is it ok to frack Taranaki if we’re going carbon neutral?
The latest offer of 2200 square kilometres of land around Taranaki for the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, or ‘fracking’ deserves attention. Green MP Chloe Swarbrick explained to her followers that this under the current law this was an administrative decision, while Energy Minister Megan Woods was quick to note that among the offer’s benefits was that it didn’t include offshore oil and gas. But why frack now?
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions
Is our government serious about Climate Change or not?
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Kia kaha teachers!
As a former teacher let me be clear I’m 100% behind our educators in their efforts to get better pay and conditions.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Gee some people get upset when I dare to examine the governance of Labour and Greens
So even at the time of announcing the death of neoliberalism the Prime Minister knew her Party was going to keep the economic philosophy it had introduced in 1984 on life support
Read More →The Liberal Agenda View All →
The Liberal Agenda – The People’s Budget 2019 – Friday 31st May
WHAT: The People’s Budget
WHERE: Otahuhu Town Hall
WHEN: 6.30pm Friday 31st May
The Liberal Agenda – 12pm Post Budget livestream Friday 31st for the first Wellbeing Budget
Each year Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) provides child-focused analysis and commentary of the budget. The aim is to provide an accessible and affordable avenue for the community to come together and hear about how the budget affects children and young people, especially our most vulnerable who live in poverty.
Read More →The Liberal Agenda – Tamil Association to remember Genocide Day May 18
A vigil has been organised on the 18th May 2019, from 12.00 to 4.00 pm at the Aotea Square, Auckland to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the “Tamil Genocide Day”.
Read More →The Liberal Agenda – New Zealand Public Television Trust: Transforming cities with technology?
If you use one of those “free” electric scooters or bikes you are giving someone valuable data about your movements around the city. Is that something that concerns you – or not?
Read More →The Liberal Agenda: NZ Public Television – The Universal Basic Income – a good idea or not?
Imagine paying people no strings attached cash whether they have a job or not.
Read More →The Liberal Agenda – Nationwide Post Budget Event Series
Each year Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) provides child-focused analysis and commentary of the budget. The aim is to provide an accessible and affordable avenue for the community to come together and hear about how the budget affects children and young people, especially our most vulnerable who live in poverty.
Read More →The Woke review of Avengers: Endgame 5 stars (warning – spoilers)
After eliminating climate change and over population issues, radical environmentalist, solo dad and Mens Rights Activist, Thanos, has retired to a life style block to grow sustainable vegan crops.
Read More →The Liberal Agenda – Mediating Terror
Seven weeks after the Christchurch mosque shootings it is time to reflect upon the mediated nature of these traumatic events. To this end, the Journalism, Media and Democracy research centre has assembled a distinguished panel of speakers to discuss the interrelated themes of online white extremism, media depictions of terrorism, terror and security and representations of Islam.
Read More →The Daily Gallery View All →
TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 23rd May 2019
5: NANCY PELOSI SAID “COVER-UP” AND TRUMP HAD A COMPLETE MELTDOWN
4: US House Speaker Pelosi says Trump is engaged in a ‘cover-up’
3: Thousands of Immigrants Suffer in Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention
2: How ICE Is Using Solitary Confinement to Punish Asylum Seekers, Including LGBT & Disabled Immigrants
1: Pressure grows on May to quit as support for ‘new’ Brexit deal slips away
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 23rd May 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Read More →TDB Top 5 International Stories: Tuesday 21st May 2019
5: Extremists Are Winning the War on Abortion
4: Iran slams ‘genocidal taunts’ by US, increases uranium production
3: THE RISE OF “GAME OF THRONES” WAS PART OF THE FALL OF AMERICA
2: Meet The Alabama Doctor Who Could Face 99 Years In Prison For Providing Abortions Under New Law
1: US ban on Huawei a ‘cynically timed’ blow in escalating trade war, says firm
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 21st May 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Monday 20th May 2019
5: What It’s Like at an Alabama Clinic Still Performing Abortions
4: Saudi Arabia ‘seeks to avert war, ready to respond with force’
3: A VIGILANTE MILITIA DEFENDS AN IMAGINARY BORDER
2: What Does a Post-Roe America Look Like? As Anti-Choice Laws Multiply, Many Already Are Living In It
1: US prosecutors to ‘help themselves’ to Julian Assange’s possessions
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 19th May 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Read More →Raw News feed View All →
Goff’s budget blowouts have maxed out ratepayers Credit Card – John Tamihere
Mayoral candidate John Tamihere says Goff’s Budget Blowouts have confirmed the mayor’s spending is outof control and he has “maxed out” the ratepayers’ credit card. “We’ve seen massive budget blowouts under his watch – a billion dollars for CRL, 75% blowout for Queens Wharf Dolphins, transport budgets up 7% while they have cut 40 bus […]
Read More →Wellbeing budget delivers for Ambos’ wages, St John already making moves to spend elsewhere – First Union
After months of industrial action to draw attention to the low wages and poor conditions of work, Ambulance Professionals are delighted that there government has listened but fear the money won’t make it to the frontline where it is needed. This morning, Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters announced that Ambulance Professionals have been remembered […]
Read More →ITF condemns suspension of union members in Auckland
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) strongly condemns the 30-day suspension without pay of union members by the Spanish employer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) in Auckland, New Zealand. As part of a campaign for fairer wages, members of the ITF-affiliated Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) had planned partial strike action that […]
Read More →Robertson’s Budget $6 Billion Short – Social Credit
Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s budget later this month could have contained an additional $6 billion in spending without costing taxpayers a single cent more, Social Credit Party Leader, Chris Leitch told the party’s Canterbury Regional conference yesterday. But it won’t, Mr Leitch said, because the Finance Minister doesn’t understand that he could save that amount […]
Read More →Public transport reform welcomed – Wellington Tramways Union
Wellington bus drivers are welcoming reform of the Public Transport Operating Model (PTOM) says their union. The reform process was announced by the Transport Minister today at the Wellington Tramways Union AGM in front of hundreds of drivers. Tramways union Secretary Kevin O’Sullivan says change has been desperately needed. “We’ve watched Wellington’s public […]
Read More →Racism Underpins the Prisoner Voting Blanket Ban – Media Release on behalf of Tom Hemopo and Donna Awatere-Huata
Former retired Probation officer Tom Hemopo and Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere-Huata are due to give evidence this afternoon at the Māori Prisoner’s Voting Inquiry at the Waitangi Trbunal in Wellington. Mr Hemopo and Mrs Awatere-Huata claim that the blanket prisoner voting ban discriminates against Maori and is a breach of their tino rangatiratanga and […]
Read More →Over 1,000 prisoners sign voting petition – Wellington Howard League
The Wellington Howard League’s “Let Prisoners Vote” petition, presented to Parliament by Wellington Central MP, the Hon. Grant Robertson, will be tabled in the House on Tuesday 21 May before question time. The over two thousand people who have signed the petition are asking Parliament to repeal section 80(1)(d) of the Electoral Act 1993 to […]
Read More →3 days to go until thousands of students strike from school – School Strike 4 Climate
There are now only three days until May 24th, when thousands of school students across the country and the world will strike from school to demand the Government treat climate change as the crisis that it is. There are currently over 25 events planned across Aotearoa. Some communities are doing tree plantings and beach clean […]
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