Embedded At The New Zealand First Convention Part Two: Perception, Deception, Convention.
As I covered in yesterday’s part one of my NZ First Convention writeup, ours is a party often bedeviled by…
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In light of yesterday’s events – Close the Camps Australia
The organizer of a protest against Australia’s offshore detention camps is pleased by last evening’s breaking news that Wilson Security…
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Sour Fruit: Why I’m not pinning my hopes on ESRA
IS IT TOO SOON to pronounce judgement upon ESRA? Economic & Social Research Aotearoa has only just been launched. So, surely, we should give it a little time to show us what it can do? Except that we already know what ESRA will do, because we already know what ESRA is.
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Dirty tricks against Corbyn not working
Corbyn’s opponents have tried every trick in the book to dent the Labour leader’s support.
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Embedded at the New Zealand First Convention Part 1: “The Board is Set, The Pieces Are Moving…”
One of the unique privileges of my position in the NZ politisphere is that I straddle two worlds. I’m a…
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Political Caption Competition
White man speaks with forked tongue
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 3rd September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Last Waatea 5th Estate for 2016 tonight – political wrap of 2016 + 2017 predictions
Joining us tonight to wrap the political year for our final show of 2016…
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SPECIAL FEATURE: The Truth About Migration (Part 1 of 4)
The issues involved in the current debate over immigration policy are so important for the country that understanding it properly requires an in-depth look that I am attempting here in four parts. I will repeat some of what I have written before but will also provide the most up to date data available.
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Auckland shows government’ policy failures writ large
Auckland is a two speed city ‘Real Housewives of Auckland’ at one end and desperately poor families living in cars in the middle of winter at the other. The affluent of Auckland are immune to the price system- it just doesn’t matter what things cost. At the other end, lives are spent economising on miserable and insufficient disposable incomes where every last 10 cents and every price rise matters.