GUEST BLOG: Bill Rosenberg – Rethinking Welfare speech notes
Bill Rosenberg is the economist and director of policy for the Council of Trade Unions
Author: The Daily Blog
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 17th September 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Dr Liz Gordon: The collapse of the welfare state
These are the ongoing effects of 30+ years of neo-liberalism, a political philosophy aimed at shifting wealth from the poor to the rich in New Zealand. It has been a most successful movement. Even though, as Max Rashbrooke shows, the bottom 90% of New Zealanders are worse off, most people still think that it is the best economic model.
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The housing crisis: NZers deliver their verdict
New Zealanders appear to have rejected National’s on-going carping at the Coalition government’s ‘Kiwibuild’ programme.
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Matt Ridenton plots Newcastle revival after reuniting with Ernie Merrick.
The Kiwi midfielder have reportedly joined the Hunters as he anticipate a new football challenge. In 2013, a young…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 16th September 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 15th September 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – New pilot programme for apprenticeships a win for young people
I re-entered politics because I wanted to see hope return for the many New Zealanders whom National had failed. I was sick of seeing the people in my community go without and fall further and further behind as those from the wealthier parts of town danced to a ‘rock star’ economy tune none of us could hear.
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MUST READ: NZ First’s Radical Conservatism Must Triumph Before Labour-Greens’ Radical Progressivism Can Succeed
The crucial political failure of Labour and the Greens is that they have yet to appreciate that without the realisation of the radical conservatives’ programme, the chances of a radically progressive programme succeeding are nil. Until the slums of neoliberalism have been cleared, a New Zealand fit to live in cannot be built.
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Political Caption Competition
Will this kind of journalism be behind the new pay wall? Please?