Fiscal responsibility requires more focus on children – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that to be fiscally responsible, an incoming Government needs to stop looking at ways…
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Quarter of a million hectares sold into overseas ownership illegally – Labour Party
Over 250,000 hectares of land have been bought by foreigners without required approval from the Overseas Investment Office since 2011,…
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Political Caption Competition
This is the face of truth?
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Tuesday 28th March 2017
5: The Conservative Christian Moms Pushing for More Legal Weed in Texas
4: Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for 15 days
3: LAWSUIT SEEKS TRANSPARENCY AS SEARCHES OF CELLPHONES AND LAPTOPS SKYROCKET AT BORDERS
2: More Than 1,000 Civilians Reportedly Killed by U.S.-Led Airstrikes as Trump Expands War on Terror
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 28th March 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Dirty laundry
There’s a pattern. The government lets companies regulate themselves until they get exposed for causing damage to the public interest. Deny, fudge, delay, until there is enough of an outcry that it starts to be politically damaging. At that stage, the government does just enough to make the public think that the problem is sorted. But not enough to stop the companies from making big profits.
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STAKE YOUR CLAIM – A review of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s Hit and Run
The construction of this book was a painstaking and dangerous enterprise. John Stephenson risked life and limb by returning to the villages and interviewing survivors, and assembling the family trees of the dead and wounded. Empty shell casings from Apache helicopter cannon rounds were collected and photographed. A series of locally sourced stories from the Pajhwok News Agency, pointing to civilian deaths and casualties were filed. And, as mentioned earlier, a locally documented list of the dead and wounded was obtained and photocopied. By triangulating this material with the admissions of anonymous sources throughout the SAS and NZDF, Hager and Stephenson have built a powerful case.
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On NZ First’s Anti-Smacking Referendum
I’m therefore going to break ranks somewhat with many of the other voices on the liberal left and respectfully suggest that maybe Winston IS on to something here, and that there is, in fact, a case to be made for getting rid of the present section 59.
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Nothing To Them. Tim Keating hits back at “Hit & Run”
In the words of Jon Stephenson: “Is [NZDF Chief] Tim Keating really saying there were two raids using identical aircraft, in identical places with identical commandos, that left behind identical munitions in that one village, then [in] a village two kilometres south? Seriously?”
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Labour and Greens fiscal management rules offer no change – AAAP
Labour and Greens new Budget Responsibility Rules for fiscal management demonstrates a lack of commitment to the low paid and…