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.
Author: The Daily Blog
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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.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 3rd 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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Radical Transformers? Doesn’t Sound Like It.
TO ACCUSE POLITICIANS of being part of a “tax and spend” government is just another way of calling them social-democrats. By the same token, politicians who explicitly renounce the policies of tax and spend are signalling that they are anything but social-democrats.
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Open Letter to Phil Latham of Navis Capital re: Mainland Poultry – Direct Animal Action
Dear Phil, Recently your private equity firm, Navis Capital, bought 75% of Mainland Poultry, New Zealand’s biggest egg producer. We…
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NZ Criminal Bar Association Defends Golriz Ghahraman
The criticism of Golriz Ghahraman for acting as a defence counsel and defending persons charged with being war criminals is…
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Big court win for labour hire workers against LSG Sky Chefs – E tu
E tū has won its Employment Court case against LSG Sky Chefs for its exploitative use of labour hire workers….