TPPA: From a Market Economy to a Market Society
By supporting the TPPA, NZ First, the Labour and the National party all said yes to protecting investors’ rights over and above the interests of an ordinary citizen.
Year: 2018
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For NZ First De Nile Is A River That Runs Through Warkworth
Marcroft is supposed to have asked for a meeting with Mitchell, turned up, and bluntly laid out that Mitchell was to cease his support for a particular river restoration project if he wanted it to see funding from the Government.
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MUST READ: The Politics Of Public Service Broadcasting
Once appraised of Curran’s hopes and fears, and quite possibly, of her intentions vis-à-vis the reappointment – or not – of RNZ Board Chairperson, Richard Griffin, did Hirschfeld suddenly find herself in possession of information as sensitive and compromising as it was potentially career-destroying? Did the Right and its media allies, informed of Curran’s meeting with Hirschfeld, simply seize an opportunity to kill two potentially very dangerous birds with a single stone?
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Political Caption Competition
Easter under Trump
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 29th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Why I just can’t care about Clare Curran’s coffee dates
Matthew Hooton is braying in the Herald that Jacinda is stumbling from crisis to crisis. That’s only true if you define crisis as things that piss off Mike Hosking.
I preferred Hooton when he was on the NBR behind a paywall.
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If we have the money for a Billionaires boat race, we have the money to stop raw sewage leaking into our Hospitals
We’ve gone from leaky homes to leaky buildings. Thank you National Party, looking at the obscene truth of your underfunding over the last decade, we now know how you managed all those budget surpluses.
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The surreal madness of mocking Jacinda for Russian spies
This is a kind of insanity.
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NZ can’t expel any Russian spies because we can’t find any, so what about Chinese spies?
…ok, so we can’t find any Russian Spies to expel, soooooooooooooo what about any Chinese Spies?
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RNZ is ‘Red Radio’ the same way I’m a ‘Blue Blogger’
RNZ isn’t left wing, it’s elitist with a class snobbery and a misplaced sense of self-importance that imbues everything based in Wellington.