Plunket & Families Celebrate Extended Paid Parental Leave
Plunket is celebrating the extension to paid parental leave today as ‘an important investment in families and the future of…
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NZ Royal Commission Inquiry into Child Abuse & Child Rape
The New Zealand Royal Commission Inquiry into Child Rape and Child Abuse should be across the board, applying and affecting…
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Home-for-a-home scheme for developing nations announced – Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity New Zealand, a not-for profit organisation that works to provide access to affordable shelter, in partnership with…
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Refugee youth say NZ welcomes refugees “in theory,” but not always in practice – RASNZ
Participants in a Refugee Youth Forum in west Auckland yesterday say New Zealand provides core services to refugees, but that…
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Political Caption Competition
Simon Bridges and Judith Collins are going to compete to eat this puppy alive.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 4th December 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Don Brash’s attitudes a relic of colonialism
Don Brash also overlooked the historical and contemporary diversity, and complexity of New Zealand, saying ‘New Zealand values are British values’, and that a lot of socio-economic deprivation among Maori is because they ‘don’t speak English properly’.
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Mr English: Where are National’s secret coalition negotiation papers?
Bill English has been kicking up a shit-storm, demanding that Labour release what they have been describing as a “secret coalition agreement” between Labour and NZ First.
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Political Caption Competition
Steven Joyce in his $11.7b hole that is actually a $20b hole that he dug
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GUEST BLOG: Damon Rusden – Have we forgotten about the working poor?
When we discuss poverty, the two extremes seem to fall in two categories: beneficiaries and the uber rich. The “middle class” seems to be an amorphous blob which fills the gap between the two, and (according to the law of post-90s politics) is the demographic which politicians have to appeal for votes.