Rail workers call out Transport Minister’s hypocrisy over electric vehicles – RMTU
The union representing working people in New Zealand’s railways says Transport Minister Simon Bridges is acting like a hypocrite for…
Year: 2017
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Our complicated relationship with Barack Obama – goodbye Mr President
We loved Barack because of his incredible oratory, because he voiced the vision of what we all believed we wanted America to be.
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TDB Summer Election Special: What Labour Party MPs need to read today at their New Years Caucus
Labour must do more than not offend people if they want to be the Government. They have to offer hope and vision, and while affordable housing, education/health blah blahs and some tough on crime crap is all fine and dandy, it does nothing to inspire those living with the grim realities of debt and everyday life.
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Gen Xers to be screwed again by raising Retirement Age
This is the legacy of 30 years of neoliberalism, this is the mythology that success is an individual pursuit that has nothing to do with the hegemonic structures of power within a society and being poor is a personal choice. This idealogical virus has infected user pays society and warped the values.
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Centrelink scandal has been happening in NZ for decades
Labour and the Greens won’t touch the punitive neoliberal welfare state, but MANA and the Maori Party certainly can.
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Dear Bill English – are Waitangi Day protests as cringeworthy as you topless doing the haka?
It’s the funny thing about culture in New Zealand isn’t it? At home white Kiwis seem to loath anything to do with the Maori culture because it forces us to consider the past abuses of the State which most of us have benefitted from, yet the bloody second they are drunk on their OE in Europe, they throw off the t-shirt and bust out their best Haka moves.
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UPDATE: I hate Jordan Williams and the Taxpayer’s Union with a passion – BUT when they are right, they are right
You all know I despise Jordan Williams and his flake David Farrar backed Taxpayer’s Union with a passion.
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THRILLING AND SURPRISING, AN INTERNATIONAL CROSS-ART FORM SHOW HEADS TO AUCKLAND FRINGE
WINNER – Most Promising Emerging Company, NZ Fringe 2016 Fresh from creating a critical and popular sensation at the NZ…
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NZ PLAYWRIGHT’S NEWEST SCRIPT ILLUMINATES A PROVOKING POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD
Click-Clack Productions presents REMAIN IN LIGHT Written by Stephen Sinclair Directed by Elena Stejko Gripping, lyrical, and strikingly bold, Remain…
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Political Caption Competition
Talking of ‘cringe’ – what’s more cringe-worthy? Waitangi Day protests or middle class white dudes doing the Haka?