The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 6th April 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Waatea 5th Estate – poverty reality in NZ
Day One of AAAP Beneficiary clinic
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A Modest Proposal
Governments and capitalists are always banging on about how the private sector is more efficient than the public sector., so I’ve got a modest proposal for them.
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Key’s Colonial Daze
Somehow, NZ’s PM has convinced himself that, constitutionally, his country remains a colonial appendage of the United Kingdom. That the granting of Self-Governing Dominion status in 1907 never happened. That the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which the First Labour Government adopted in 1947, thereby signalling this country’s emergence into full and independent nationhood, is but a figment of our historians’ imaginations.
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CYNZ supports Helen Clark’s bid for UN Secretary-General
Commonwealth Youth New Zealand welcomes the news that Helen Clark is running for the positon of UN Secretary-General. “We are…
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Stop the Cuts to Southern Mental Health
Urgent Protest Action Against the Shift of the Community Day Programmes to Wakari Hospital Healthcare activist group, Stop the Cuts…
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NZ’s role in tax avoidance ‘shameful’, says academic – Massey University
A Massey University taxation specialist says the loopholes in New Zealand’s trust law, highlighted by the so-called ‘Panama Papers’, makes…
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The Secret Dossier: Helen Clark isn’t the story – Key’s fear of Trust exposure is
The question is has Key himself benefitted from this? The Icelandic PM has been caught out having a trust in the very banks he was supposed to be legislating against. Does John Key have a conflict of interest in keeping trust law murky because he has two ‘blind’ trusts?
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Raise the flag – and bear it
Where institutional power is so comprehensively unresponsive to the citizens, the voices of opposition must be organised and that organisation sustained.
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