An Open Letter from the Youth of Aotearoa – SchoolStrike
To our parents, our teachers, and our business and elected leaders. We are your children. Your grandchildren. Your future leaders….
Author: The Daily Blog
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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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Malcolm Evans – Statue of Misery
Malcolm Evans – Statue of Misery
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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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Big Tech & Free Trade
On the ‘knowledge’ panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Professor Jane Kelsey explained how trade rules on ‘e-commerce’ would cement the dominance of Big Tech and close off our ability to shape the digital domain in the public good.
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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.