Q+A Review
Panel is Matt McCarten who announces he’s starting a new Campaign For Change movement, Jennifer Curtin and Fran O’Sullivan. Lockwood Smith…
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TOP donates $1 million to charity to protest political ad allowances – The Opportunities Party
Hey folks, in case you missed it taxpayers have just given millions of dollars of broadcasting time to establishment politicians…
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Political Caption Competition
The face of right wing victory
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Saturday 10th June 2017
5: How Politics’ Biggest Self-Own Played Out On the UK’s Screens
4: US anti-fascists take on alt-right fight squads
3: After Election Setback, Theresa May Clings to Power in U.K. Thanks to Ulster Extremists
2: Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn Rides Progressive Tide in U.K. Election in Rebuke of Austerity & Conservatives
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National continues to panic on housing crisis as election day looms
National’s “grand plans” for 220 new social and transitional places remains woefully short of the 1,138 houses that National sold off to IHC’s Accessible Properties at the end of March. It is also unclear what is meant by ” transitional places”. Are these actual houses? Or motel units, à la Auckland-style;
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British Election Results are a Moral Victory for Corbyn’s Alternative Political Possibilities
The loss of Theresa May’s clear Conservative majority has already rocked conventional assumptions, agendas and elites. The realm of the politically possible has been blasted open – because the electoral support for Corbyn doesn’t just reflect a resurgence for British Labour, it has allowed a publicly popular discussion about a whole different political economy.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 10th June 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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UN requires NZ Government to fully investigate 2010 Afghan raid – Amnesty International
The United Nations Committee Against Torture has asked the New Zealand Government to report on what measures it has put…
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How All New Zealanders can build a fairer world through Fairtrade
World Day Against Child Labour is a chance for Kiwis to think about how their everyday actions can help build…
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GUEST BLOG: Alan Johnson – Making sense of the Government’s housing numbers
In a press release of June 1 2017, Social Housing Minister Amy Adams claimed her Government was “planning to increase the number of social houses from 66,000 today to 72,000 over the next three years.” A closer scrutiny of such a claim suggests that it is at best fanciful and at worse misleading.