Daily Meme
Daily Meme
Author: The Daily Blog
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday – 22nd June 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Where were you when we needed you?
As unions struggled to organise workers over the last 25 years governments de-regulated the labour market or sat back and watched organised labour fall apart. The art of civil society is to organise for the common good whereas the art of politicians is to compromise, for their own good.
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“Hate To Say Ron Told You So” – On Key’s Recent Flip-Flop About Kiwi Troops In Iraq
Regardless of what and whether you feel about New Zealand military involvement in Iraq. Irrespective of whether you think putting Kiwi boots on the ground in Iraq makes us a target; or if you think that training up Iraqi forces somehow makes us safer here at home … the Government has lied, distorted, spun, manipulated and mislead its own people a score of times over this particular issue. There’s just simply no way around it.
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Bright ideas are good, but not good enough – Lifewise
…these efforts only seem like solutions because they temporarily fix a visible symptom of homelessness. None of them can make a problem as complex as homelessness go away. Most countries in the Western world have struggled with it since the ’80s; thirty years is too long to not have a solution in sight.
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Hone Harawira’s Attempted Re-Entry: Is It Credible? And What Does It Mean For The Left In 2017
First, *can* Harawira pull it off; and second … what are the likely effects going to be if he does, in fact, win Te Tai Tokerau once again.
The answers – particularly to the second question – may be surprising.
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#ParkUp Otara says carpark homelessness is not okay
What started as a bright idea amongst a group of Mangere flatmates has spread like wildfire across the nation, and…
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PSA to Minister Coleman: How many more deaths will it take?
New Zealand’s mental health system is spiralling deeper into crisis, the Public Service Association says, and urgently needs a wide-ranging…