Zombie Actors Protest TPPA At Auckland Trade Office – Real Choice
A mock zombie virus outbreak was quarantined this morning at the offices of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade…
Year: 2017
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Sweet Rebellion: campaign for a sugar-sweetened beverage tax
Dr. Tiffany Parmenter, BSc(hons), PhD on behalf of Sweet Rebellion. Recently, as part of our undergraduate medical training, we undertook…
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Just pause and consider what has been revealed in the latest Kim Dotcom case
I just don’t think this story below is getting enough attention and I hope the release of the new documentary by Annie Goldson reignites public attention…
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Why Mike Hosking’s claim that his pay is none of our business is false
Being on the State Broadcaster carries obligations to the taxpayers who have built that asset up, which means his salary should be transparent.
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The Farmers win again?!?
Kiwi’s don’t want the jobs, because as Helen Kelly pointed out, they are awful hideous jobs which are paid a pittance. Complaining as the farming industry does about NZers not wanting to be serfs in a rural feudal state doesn’t justify importing desperate and impoverished workers from other countries.
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BATTLEGROUND WAIRARAPA
Every Election, there’s a seat or several whose outcomes are fantastically interesting to watch. This is because they are the ones that are actually balanced upon the knife-edge – where a few dozen votes one way or ‘tuther will actually help to determine the shape and course of our politics for years or even decades to come.
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Have you ever asked for help and hated having to ask? Then you can empathise with Metiria.
Thanks to my socioeconomic privilege, it is unlikely (not to say impossible) that I will ever end up as dependent on our corrupt welfare system as Metiria once was. And I don’t pretend to know exactly how that dependency felt for Metiria, because I can’t know. Maybe I can’t know, but I can guess. Because I can guess, I can empathise with her.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Rogercomic: the socialist Aotearoa that might have been…
Rogercomic is a comic published by the Socialist Alliance in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 1986.
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GUEST BLOG: Dr Liz Gordon – Epic media fail in NZ
We had been preparing the story for weeks. A huge research project, a scholarly article in a good journal, a well-known charity behind us. It was our “I, Daniel Blake” story for New Zealand.
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Waatea News Column – The madness of deciding the fate of Maori electorates with a binding referendum
NZ First’s extraordinary claim that deciding the fate of the Maori electorates with a binding referendum is not only dog whistle politics at its worst, it’s also incredibly unfair and utterly unjust.