Record level of investors as first homebuyers squeezed out of Auckland – Labour Party
Latest CoreLogic data shows investors accounted for a record 44% of Auckland house sales in the first quarter of 2017…
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GUEST BLOG: Paul (the bloke The Standard banned for 3 years) – Terror attacks and war crimes
Last week, two serious news events dominated our airwaves. The way these stories were disseminated tells us plenty about the way we, the New Zealand public, are fed propaganda.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Rip, Shit, Bust: The Pike River Mine Disaster and the Role of the Unions
Pike River was a failure of the unions to insist on health and safety conditions for the miners under both Labour and National Governments. The deregulation of industry was started by the 4th Labour Government under Lange. It was symptomatic that under Labour the unions fell into line with its policies and failed to put up a serious fight against the monetarist deregulation of the economy at the cost of many workers lives.
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Reflections On Trump’s Failure With ‘Ryancare’
Late last week, the abysmal healthcare ‘reform’ proposal of Paul Ryan’s which Trump had inexplicably chosen to support … failed fairly unequivocally. How badly did it flounder? It didn’t even make it to First Reading, on grounds that even other Republicans could not bring themselves to vote for it.
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Aucklanders say ‘Yes’ to the Living Wage!
Living Wage Auckland will today present nearly 2000 submissions on behalf of Aucklanders in support of the Living Wage at…
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Political Caption Competition
Who are you?
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Monday 27th March 2017
5: Cyber Arms Race
4: Grief and questions amid wreckage of Mosul air strikes
3: Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
2: In Major Defeat to Trump & Ryan, House GOP Pulls Bill To Repeal Obamacare
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 27th 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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Hager/Stephenson reaction to Defence Force statement
The NZDF press release is simply incorrect and implausible. To be true, it would require an identical raid by identical forces, using identical helicopters, on identical targets at the same time.
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Vigil for the victims of the Tirgiran Valley Raid and Cover-up
A pre-cabinet meeting plea will be made at Parliament on tomorrow morning 27 March requesting that the Government hold an open and independent inquiring into the NZ SAS attacks on two Afghan villages in 2010.