The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 1st August 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: Before The Flood: Political Ruminations on Labour’s Fate While Waiting For Tonight’s TV3-Reid Research Poll
TONIGHT’S REID RESEARCH POLL promises to be a shocker. Such a shocker that, like Santa Claus in the Christmas song, the journalists at TV3 are making a list of the awful numbers – and checking them twice. If the results of last night’s One News Colmar Brunton (ONCB) poll are confirmed, then Andrew Little’s future can only be described as bleak.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – If you ever thought that the Māori Party were not going to join National, then think again.
Here, the Minister of Māori Development makes a clear pitch for a Māori Party-National Government. So don’t believe the nonsense that they are interested in doing a deal with us. They want to do a deal with National despite all the terrible statistics that we see with Māori at the moment.
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Political Caption Competition
Is the BNZ, the Bank of NZ, the bank who sold us on little animated piggy banks who escape for a holiday – is that bank comfortable with a hard right broadcaster pushing a hate campaign against beneficiaries?
Really?
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Monday 31st July 2017
5: So, Is Trump Gonna Build That Wall or What?
4: Saudi-led bloc ‘cannot shrink list of demands on Qatar’
3: REPUBLICANS GOT GOOD AT SYMBOLIC REPEALS OF OBAMACARE, BUT FLINCHED WHEN FACED WITH REALITY
2: Meet the Two Catholic Workers Who Secretly Sabotaged the Dakota Access Pipeline to Halt Construction
1: Greek debt crisis: ‘People can’t see any light at the end of any tunnel’ -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 31st July 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Mental health billboards appear in Minister’s electorate overnight – ActionStation
Billboards highlighting the fact that most New Zealanders want an inquiry into the public mental health system have sprung up…
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Taxpayers left with costly environmental liability from Solid Energy mines – Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says evidence of corporate welfare and dirty deals is mounting up as the Government’s sale of Stockton…
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Canadian Indigenous Rights Case Could Block Oil Exploration – Greenpeace
“Watershed” indigenous rights case could set precedent for blocking NZ oil exploration A David vs Goliath court case in Canada…
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Housing priorities for a New Zealand where all children can flourish – CPAG
The upcoming election provides an opportunity for all political parties to put the wellbeing of all New Zealand’s children at…