The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 6th 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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BREAKING: The Daily Blog to livestream TPPA meeting 6pm tonight
It is almost incomprehensible that a meeting about the TPPA is being held in a tiny room like Europe House at AUT.
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Poverty and inequality won’t be challenged by Tax working group
Last week Statistics NZ released the National Accounts for the year to March 2017, which revealed that working people are receiving only 48.7% of the national pie compared to a peak of 58.7% in 1981.
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Malcolm Evans – the real truth about Christmas
Malcolm Evans – the real truth about Christmas
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Political Caption Competition
That moment when your own Parliament votes against you and accepts NZs offer on Manus Island you Dickhead.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 5th 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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New Zealand Media Ownership : why it matters
The general results have been catastrophic for those committed to public sphere principles. Newsrooms contracted, news content thinned out, and current affairs journalism disappeared from prime time television. We have here an over bearing convergence of finance, political and media culture which obscures the issues of media ownership.
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URGENT ATTENTION ALL ANTI-TPPA ACTIVISTS
We discovered less than a week ago that MFAT is hosting ‘consultations’ around the country, with David Parker, this week on the TPPA-11. It appeared to be a last-minute decision to do something before Xmas, and somehow they forgot to send invitations to critics who have attended previous ‘consultations’. Presumably the business sector was given priority notice. There is no information on the MFAT website, but we know at least about these:
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For the first time in seven years, a major shift in NZ media ownership – AUT research center for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD)
The official release of this report and debate around it will be live streamed on The Daily Blog 5pm today
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New Farmland Restrictions on Foreign Buyers Welcome – CAFCA
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) is very pleased that the Government announced that, as of December 2017,…