Waikato support workers to hold further strikes over “poverty” wages
More than 200 specialist support workers at Community Living Limited will take more industrial action, after employers refused to make…
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Māori Water Rights are Human Rights are NZ rights
The issue to be addressed in respect of water is the extent of customary interests or native title that Māori have in the rivers and lakes.
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Home ownership a national obsession
In New Zealand we have a broken attitude to renting and an unhealthy obsession with property ownership. According to IMF statistics, NZ has the fastest increasing house-price-to-income ratio in the world.
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Budget 2016: Did Bill English try to pull a swiftie on ‘The Nation’?
On TV3’s “The Nation”, Lisa Owen asked Finance Minister Bill English if funding for health and education had been cut on a per-capita basis. The response from English was jaw-dropping;
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 29th May 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Daily Blog May Donations Drive – last day today
We’ve seen this month the media consolidation that is occurring that will see one Newspaper Monopoly – you know how bad the mainstream media are now, what will happen when they get even more powerful?
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Budget entrenches society’s pathologies
This budget and this government were never going to provide the structural tools and address the structural challenges of a deregulated, speculative, unequal society. Addressing the chasm of income disparity would require the removal of privileges, the redistribution of advantage.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Another Open Letter to Board of Waikato DHB re: Nicky Stevens
Dear Bob – we have noted from your reply that you have not yet been able to bring yourselves to say ‘sorry’.
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Why Poetry? / Why Breathe? Poetry Day 2016
So when Phantom Billstickers said they were supporting New Zealand’s National Poetry Day, my eyes lit up, and so did the sky, and a half a rainbow appeared over the Auckland Old Folk’s Ass in Gundy Street off K’road.