The Liberal Agenda – Hīkoi of Hope for the Homeless – Saturday 29 July
The Hīkoi for Hope for the Homeless is open to all members of the community and will start at 12pm, Saturday 29 June in the Manurewa Methodist Church car-park.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Labour’s $4 billion education fix just what children need – NZEI
Labour’s promise of a $4 billion funding jolt for education will start to repair the damage that’s been inflicted on…
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Labour’s fiscal plan offers good alternative for workers – CTU
Labour’s announced fiscal plan today has been welcomed by the Council of Trade Unions. ‘This plan demonstrates a real and…
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Homelessness National’s disgraceful legacy – Labour Party
National is failing in the most basic duty of a government – ensuring all our people have a place to…
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Nats show they’re the tax dodgers’ best friends – Labour Party
“The government is taking the knife to IRD at a time when we need a highly skilled department to ensure…
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A Cautionary Tale From Canada
With Winston exhaling anger, and Metiria Turei breathing hope, Andrew Little and Labour need to offer the New Zealand electorate something more than a deflated ideological balloon.
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MĀORI SEATS OR NOT?
As we head into this year’s election NZ First has dangled the carrot of a binding referendum on whether the Māori seats should be abolished. Given it has been NZ First policy to abolish the seven Māori electorates for some time the position taken just over two months out from an election is not surprising.
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GUEST BLOG: Lizzie Cook – Māori seats in Parliament
If we want social and environmental change, punishing is not a helpful or healthy philosophy. We require consultation through well-informed and democratic processes focused on the well-being of all people. Talking about abolishing Māori seats in no way contributes to this. It is a deliberate inflammatory device that has nothing to do with cultural literacy in Aotearoa.
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GUEST BLOG: Andrew Little – Multinationals
Right now, some multinational corporations aren’t paying their fair share of tax in New Zealand. Many are using complex accountancy schemes to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in tax – and leaving it up to the rest of us to pick up the tab.
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EXCLUSIVE: Graeme Axford – My IPCA complaint about MP Todd Barclay
Dear Minister of justice, I have a complaint about the IPCA and a few comments to make about them to you as well. I heard on Radio NZ that the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) of New Zealand has dropped my complaint into MP Todd Barclay. While I have no doubt as a fellow National MP you will be please to hear this given he is a colleague of yours.
I am unhappy about two aspects of the IPCA handling of this.