English out of touch on homelessness – Labour Party
Bill English’s comments that he doesn’t know why people are complaining about the blowout in the number of homeless families…
Author: The Daily Blog
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Keep Our Assets Canterbury Urges Christchurch City Council To Vote On Thursday To Fully Implement Living Wage
Dear Mayor & Councillors, The Living Wage Keep Our Assets Canterbury (KOA) is pleased the Council has finally released one…
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Disuse of rail line a ‘Bloody Shambles’ say locals in Auckland growth area – PTUA
The disuse of existing rail infrastructure in growing North West Auckland was labelled ‘a bloody shambles’ by members of the…
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Sudden Shifts: Bill English Backtracks, And Winston Peters Changes Tack
Conservative voters in the regions are much more willing to tolerate foreigners prepared to work their land for low wages, than they are indigenous New Zealanders preparing to reclaim their patrimony. As Bill English noted of National’s and NZ First sudden shifts: “the policy direction is going to be driven by the strength of the economy”.
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Malcolm Evans – National’s education policy
Malcolm Evans – National’s education policy
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – What’s more important? Bashing Metiria for being honest or NZ topping the list of countries with the most homeless?
Last week we watched the worst angles of our nature focus viciously on Metiria’s brave admission of being forced to cheat the system to feed her family, while a far larger story about our homelessness passed by without half the attention spent bashing her.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Gareth Morgans vision for working people – Stay Poor
Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities Party is working to appear a radical departure from the status quo. Proposals for a dramatic change to taxation policy and the partial roll out of a Universal Basic Income are a welcome political development. It’s good to have a political party seriously calling for the rich to pay more tax. But despite this, the policy package of The Opportunities Party (TOP) would hurt working people. Behind attention grabbing rhetoric TOP maintains a deep commitment to establishment economics and neo-liberalism.
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GUEST BLOG: Andrew Little – Cancer
It’s about priorities and is another way we’re making the choice between Labour and National clear. This election is a choice between Labour’s investment in healthcare, homes and education; and National’s $400m of tax cuts for the top 10%.
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Apartheid Israel – Violent News Gets More Clicks
By now you’ve probably heard about the deaths in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank following protests at al Aqsa mosque. That’s because violence makes for great headlines. What received almost no attention from English language media was a historic legal procedure.
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The Negotiated Pay Equity Settlement for Care Workers – beware the fish-hooks amidst the hyperbole
It’s been touted as the most “historic pay rise” in history. But the actual mechanics of the deal; the “fine print”; and other undisclosed facts may raise questions as how much of a “historic pay rise” the deal actually is.