Malcolm Evans – National’s education policy
Malcolm Evans – National’s education policy
Year: 2017
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Why National’s $600m, 24 000 new homes in Auckland plan is pure bullshit
The grim truth about National’s latest lie on housing is just how utterly hollow the plan really is.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – What’s more important? Bashing Metiria for being honest or NZ topping the list of countries with the most homeless?
Last week we watched the worst angles of our nature focus viciously on Metiria’s brave admission of being forced to cheat the system to feed her family, while a far larger story about our homelessness passed by without half the attention spent bashing her.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Gareth Morgans vision for working people – Stay Poor
Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities Party is working to appear a radical departure from the status quo. Proposals for a dramatic change to taxation policy and the partial roll out of a Universal Basic Income are a welcome political development. It’s good to have a political party seriously calling for the rich to pay more tax. But despite this, the policy package of The Opportunities Party (TOP) would hurt working people. Behind attention grabbing rhetoric TOP maintains a deep commitment to establishment economics and neo-liberalism.
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Who pays more tax – the super-wealthy or beneficiaries?
Wealth is not created from thin air. It is made from manipulating the wealth created by working people. In other words, you and I and every person living in New Zealand has been fleeced $1,489 more this past year so these bloodsuckers can build a bigger pile of unearned income. And they don’t pay tax on it.
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GUEST BLOG: Andrew Little – Cancer
It’s about priorities and is another way we’re making the choice between Labour and National clear. This election is a choice between Labour’s investment in healthcare, homes and education; and National’s $400m of tax cuts for the top 10%.
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Apartheid Israel – Violent News Gets More Clicks
By now you’ve probably heard about the deaths in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank following protests at al Aqsa mosque. That’s because violence makes for great headlines. What received almost no attention from English language media was a historic legal procedure.
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The Negotiated Pay Equity Settlement for Care Workers – beware the fish-hooks amidst the hyperbole
It’s been touted as the most “historic pay rise” in history. But the actual mechanics of the deal; the “fine print”; and other undisclosed facts may raise questions as how much of a “historic pay rise” the deal actually is.
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MEDIAWATCH: Shane Jones on The AM Show threatens to nuke Northland – I’m not joking
This mornings offering managed to scrape a barrel lower than their normal standards by having Shane Jones as a guest. The Jonesy, the great waa waa of the North, the orator of Whangarei was on blowing hard on gangs boxing.
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Political Caption Competition
NZ welcomes fuckwit