GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Education
Teachers and our kids deserve better. Next to being a parent, teaching is the toughest and most undervalued societal role. Teachers deserve more. They nurture the mind’s which become our nations future.
Year: 2018
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On The Opportunistic, Would-Be Hijacking Of The Yellow-Jackets By Neoliberals
A thought that’s been gestating in my head these past few days about the Yellow Jackets “political moment”, is how … I guess you could say that “populism” looks like *very* different things to different people.
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NZ Media Ownership 2018
Apart from financialisation, job losses in the print newspaper market were triggered by falling circulation, the growth of online news consumption, and the migration of advertising revenue to Google and Facebook.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 7th December 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dave Macpherson – Coroner’s report into death of Nicky Stevens released
Coroner Wallace Bain has formally found that our son and brother Nicky Stevens’ death was as a result of suicide.
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First they came…
A brief history of some of my political activism, set to a certain poetic style…
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National manipulate personal circumstances for political gain? No Way!
Surely a political Party who hid harassment claims and then weaponised them against one of their own and then had a hand in having that person sectioned under the mental health act would have such rigorous ethical standards that they would never manipulate personal circumstances for political gain.
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Māori Climate Commissioner call for culture of climate denial to be challenged
The Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata has called on New Zealanders to challenge the culture of climate denial. “According…
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Really, really, really, really, really watered down Workplace relations law passed – NZ doesn’t implode into socialist apocalypse
The Workplace relations law was always a watered down meaningless bit of nothing that simply took the Union movement back 10 years to before National had stripped them bare. There isn’t anything modern or empowering about this legislation, it is a whitewash lip service to the union moment to look like something has been done when really very little has changed.
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Professor Anne-Marie Brady, Huawei CFO arrested and about that whole $100k for two National MPs thing
At some stage NZ is going to be forced to pick sides between America and China and the side we should pick is our own.