A Hikoi To Parliament on 12 March 2019 – Save Our Unique Landscape
Following a hugely successful Reclamation Festival at Ihumaatao on the weekend, supporters of the Auckland-based Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL)…
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Primary teachers and principals to consider new offers from the Ministry of Education – NZEI Te Riu Roa
Primary teachers and principals to consider new offers from the Ministry of Education NZEI Te Riu Roa will take new…
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Senior doctors urge Government to address chronic pain burden – Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The Government needs to make sure the public health system has enough specialists to treat chronic pain to relieve the…
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Investment in alternative milk product a positive step – SAFE
Fonterra’s investment in alternative milk product company is a positive step for the future according to SAFE Fonterra has acquired…
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Geoff Simmons – Davidson is Wrong: Capital Gains Tax Will Hurt the Poor
Marama Davidson has come out claiming that a Capital Gains Tax should be just the start of tax system reform that favours the poor. The trouble is that a Capital Gains Tax excluding the family home actually helps the middle class. It doesn’t help the poor, and will probably even hurt them.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Climbing Everest: gender equality
Ever since Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’ in 1793, there has been a women’s movement in the English -speaking world. Mary, you will remember, was famous for arguing that women’s apparent inferiority to men stemmed from their lack of education, not their nature. She argued for a social order founded on reason, not gender.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Thousands protest water bottling in Christchurch
If you rely on mainstream media for your news then you may well have missed the fact that an estimated 5000 Canterbury folk attended a protest march in Christchurch last Saturday against the granting of more water extraction rights to the Chinese owned firm Cloud Ocean Water Ltd
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Guest blog: Gerard Otto – Alison Mau loves MJ music no more
Alison Mau wrote on the same day the Leaving Netherland documentary is about to air that she does not dig MJs music anyway.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – In less than 1000 hours Britain is due to leave the EU.
What will happen to their economy and, as a consequence,to ours?
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The Liberal Agenda – Bryan Bruce interviews Max Rashbrooke
My thanks to the many people who supported and commented on posts relating to government and how, for example, we expect better from people like Judith Collins and Simon Bridges.