Lies, Damned lies and Statistical Lies
This government has done what few other Western democracies have achieved; a state of Orwellianism that Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and other dictatorships required unrelenting brute force to achieve.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Smoking and Budget 2016
Budget 2016 saw the Māori Party score another set of annual excise tax hikes, seeing efforts to further decrease the number of smokers continue to 2020, and the cost of smoking to rise by up to $30 in the same period.
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Ika’s Living wage rises today – come book a winter table for family and friends
Ika might still be Auckland’s only Living Wage eating place, but we welcomed Rotorua bar, Posonby Rd, to the accredited employers group this month and continue to encourage others to consider the case for better pay in an industry dominated by minimum wage work.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 3rd July 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The British Labour debate is really about policy
Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader represented a big shift to the left in the British Labour Party. But from day one the mostly right-wing Labour MPs have been plotting to get rid of him.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Prison Suicide Stats
It’s an alarming statistic and I can well believe it .
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Government Continues Fudging Statistics To Hide Failure
In many countries around the world, statistics about things like the rates of unemployment or crime are used by the government of the day to demonstrate changes in those areas. In New Zealand, by contrast, changes in statistics (as in, changes in what the statistics actually represent) are used instead to obscure a lack of improvement in same.
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Brexit result shows democratic rejection of neoliberalism
Brexit has shone daylight on a crisis that’s been brewing for several decades. The utopian proclamation by Francis Fukuyama about the ‘end of history’, in the heyday of globalisation, has succumbed to the reality that paradigms come and go.
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Waatea 5th Estate – The horror of Kathryn’s Story
Joining us tonight for a special discussion on the worst case of abuse on a beneficiary by a Government Department I’ve ever seen…