Malcolm Evans – Biting the bullet on CGT
Malcolm Evans – Biting the bullet on CGT
Year: 2019
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – ‘Greedy’ Boomers obliged to help fight climate change
Baby Boomers were lucky enough to live under Governments who rebuilt their societies post World War Two with the lesson of what happened if citizens weren’t protected from the sharp boom and busts of capitalism foremost in their minds. Those Governments inoculated their citizens from Fascism and Communism with a Democratic Welfare State and investment into their hopes and aspirations.
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Big Dairy Lies, Big Oil Lies, China Blaming, Greedy Landlords & CGT hysteria – the 5 big propaganda campaigns in NZ right now
New Zealand is a tiny country and it is incredibly easy to manipulate the narrative and seed the debate the way vested interests want it seeded. We are seeing some incredible propaganda campaigns being run in NZ right now and it’s worth reminding people about them as we pick our way through the minefield of fake news.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Debt as a weapon of mass destruction
The rise of high cost debt in Aotearoa is purely a response of the successive political movement to keep the bottom third of families living below the poverty line. No-one actually worried about the families at the time that Ruth Richardson’s mother of all budgets came in. The only goal of decreasing benefits then was to provide a gap between benefits and wages, so that wages could be pulled down.
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Strike at Fuji Xerox – E tū
E tū members at Fuji Xerox offices around the country will take strike action today (Monday, 25 February) in support…
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Ngā Tangata Microfinance: Unsafe credit costs far more than money – CPAG
Alarming new research from FinCap reveals the high occurrence of unsafe credit amongst those on low incomes in Aotearoa, and…
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – What Transformational Government looks like.
Labelling people socialists and communists is rife while the government starts to make the big changes that selfish, privileged nation wreckers are damned they will see happen, as long as they can enjoy the inequity of their ill gotten gains at the expense of all our great grandchildren and a more egalitarian future.
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It’s not about a bus driver shortage, it’s the way bus drivers are treated – First Union
“The government already knows the solution to the problem, they talked about it in opposition, it’s simple: scrap the PTOM…
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Oxfam’s reaction to the Tax Working Group’s final report
Responding to the release of the Tax Working Group’s final report, Oxfam New Zealand’s executive director Rachael Le Mesurier…
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Prisoners with no toilets at Auckland Prison – The Howard League for Penal Reform
The Howard League for Penal Reform has been alerted by a prisoner to a situation at Auckland Prison where prisoners,…