Banning prisoner’s right to vote is a punishment for Maori – Donna Awatere Huata
Since the announcement in December by the Waitangi Tribunal granting an urgent hearing into banning prisoners right to vote, Dr…
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The reluctant mayoral candidate – John Tamihere
Auckland Mayoral candidate John Tamihere has welcomed Phil Goff’s announcement that he has stumbled on a decision to seek a…
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Political Caption Competition
ACT Party social media campaign gets bitchy
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – PM’s, Privilege and Poverty
That former Prime Ministers, Governors-General and their surviving spouses receive a generous tax -payer funded annuity, free travel and a new car every time their old one reaches 60,000 Km, seemed to come as a surprise to TVNZ news when it learned that we’ve rewarded these people at least $3.7 million in annuities and travel in the last 5 years. Over that time I have written about this pandering to these already wealthy recipients at least twice.
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GUEST BLOG: Carrie Stoddart-Smith – Maraturanga Maori & Free Trade
In the panel on a knowledge at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Maori commentator Carrie Stoddart-Smith, from Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Whātua, talked about the international trade regime from the perspective of maraturanga Maori.
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Dave Macpherson: Why Being Part of the Health Sector Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry, and why the Government won’t step in…..
Successive Governments have encouraged the pretence of ‘local control’, while ensuring the control strings are firmly kept in the hands of both Wellington and their private sector health partners, such as the drug and medical equipment supply companies and, in many cases, the insurance companies.
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Dr Liz Gordon – How lovely we (comparatively) are
Jacinda has said that this is the year when the fixes will begin. We should see this as a sort of home renovation job. Part by part, room by room, the house, which has been left neglected to weather the storms of neo-liberalism, must now be fixed up, so that the rotten bits are replaced, and the worst bits are brought up to the standard of the best.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 5th March 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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EXCLUSIVE: CTU Resolution Backs The Junior Doctors – Over Its President’s Strong Objections
The carrying of the resolution thus represented a rare assertion of the interests of private sector workers within the CTU – as well as an important breaking-of-ranks within the usually dominant “Big Four” public sector unions. Together, Wagstaff’s opponents have delivered a stunning blow to his presidential mana, greatly reducing his chances of being re-elected to a second term as leader of the CTU.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Four more weeks of speculation
It’s the top 20% most wealthy who are thrashing around pretending they are the middle classes – who are now stuck out in the middle of the desert.