Vicious union-busting at leading Australian brewer
Carlton United Breweries, maker of Australia’s most popular beers, has sacked 54 union machine maintenance workers at its Melbourne brewery…
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EXCLUSIVE: The NZ Labour Party can no longer avoid the elephant in the room
The era of neoliberal globalisation is ending. People – who are also voters – have had enough of governments that work for the rich. Precarious jobs, stagnant incomes, unaffordable housing, massive household debt, stripped out safety nets, elected governments that are arrogant and unaccountable, opposition parties who are captives of their past or too cowed by fears of a collapse in business confidence to embrace demands for real change.
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Waatea 5th Estate – Will Government’s $1billion loan solve Housing crisis?
Joining us tonight to discuss the Government’s $1billion dollar solution to housing and whether it will do anything for the homeless and most vulnerable…
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If you come after this Boomer’s Vote, Matt, you’d better be armed
MATT HEATH’S SATIRICAL THRUST at the over-65s in Monday’s NZ Herald has caused considerable angst. Depriving the elderly of the right to vote is one of those suggestions that stops people in their tracks. Not so much because it’s a good idea (which it obviously isn’t) but because somebody’s had the bare-faced cheek to put such a subversive thought into words.
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PSA to National: give up social bonds, focus on quality services
The collapse of the government’s first social bonds project should signal the end to experimentation with the way social services…
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TV Review: The Nation
TV3’s The Nation on 2 July was probably the most incisive investigative journalism this blogger has seen for a long time. The only “fault” is that The Nation is ‘buried’ at the ghetto time-slot of early Saturday (and repeated early Sunday morning). Mediaworks is wasting a tremendous opportunity to use their current affairs journalistic team as a critical lynch-pin of their broadcasting line-up.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 7th 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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Aviation Security Service lockout “illegal and irresponsible” – unions
Locking out aviation security workers from their workplaces is an illegal and irresponsible move which will hugely inconvenience the travelling…
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Digital fluency but no cultural fluency
It’s good that digital technology will soon become a compulsory part of our education system so that students have digital fluency, but in the week where we celebrate the Maori language, when will our students gain cultural fluency?
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A response to Matt Heath – Democratic Participation Is Not A Grey Area
To insist that our elderly citizens should be steadfastly deprived of their right to vote purely because of some ineluctable combination of a referendum result on the literal other side of the world and spiraling youth apathy about politics is heinous.