Education unions’ combined executives to meet – NZEI
The combined National Executives of NZEI Te Riu Roa and the PPTA Te Wehengarua are meeting today (Friday, 16 November)…
Author: The Daily Blog
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Feeling like a stranger in a familiar land
Whether it’s the Greens in Government, or Jacinda’s pragmatic idealism, our politicians are manifest oxymorons. Despite our hope and best wishes for a Labour-Green coalition, this political landscape is not the world we thought we knew. We’re strangers in a familiar land, or maybe we’re familiar, but the world is a strange one. The grief and disappointment despite the nicey nice hopeful and kindness stuff, (and some genuine wins), is real.
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Political Caption Competition
I’ve got my big boy pants on
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 17th November 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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MUST READ: What Is “Rogerpolitics”?
“ROGERNOMICS” is political shorthand for the neoliberal economic policies introduced by Labour’s finance minister, Roger Douglas, between 1984 and 1988. While most New Zealanders have heard of Rogernomics, nowhere near as many have heard of its inseparable companion, “Rogerpolitics”.
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Political Caption Competition
This is for the American Dream.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 16th November 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Political Caption Competition
President Trump quietly humming the Imperial March from Star Wars
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – The lowest unemployment rate in almost a decade an incredible result
The unemployment rate has dropped to 3.9%, the lowest rate in almost a decade. That’s 29,000 more jobs in June…
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Rating Reality Television
HAVE YOU EVER wondered what the enormous popularity of reality television reveals about contemporary New Zealand culture? Understandably, the nation’s cultural elites do not consider this to be an important question. What the lower orders choose to pollute their minds with is hardly worthy of serious consideration. The only social significance attachable to reality television is the extent to which it uses up space and resources that could, much more profitably, be devoted to genuine cultural production.