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We may live at the bottom of the world but the vast Pacific Ocean no longer insulates us from what happens in other countries far to our North East and West.

A decision to build 34,500 houses at Pukekohe and Drury over the land where we grow much of our winter vegetables reflects the callous disregard our narrow minded neoliberal politicians have for future generations.

The adults behind him laughed, but the children looked solemn and bewildered .One of the little little girls looked scared.

Here are my thoughts on Marae TV about Ihumātao.

Helen Kelly – Together will be screening at 28 sessions around the country. Please make sure you catch one of them. This is a very important film that deserves your support

It’s ironic in the extreme that Labour,NZ First and Greens all called out National as being secretive in their trade dealings. Now that they are in charge there is no more transparency than there was before.

All but 5 of our 120 MPs own property. So there is a broad vested interest in not taxing wealth creation out of property ownership which is why we are not seeing it on the neoliberal agenda of the current government .

Unionist crusader Andrew Little will always protect out rights!

The Southside and the Westside have lower socio-economic higher ethnic communities that are always stereotyped. Working class does not mean lesser than, or second class. Southsiders and Westies may not all be flash.

The desire to possess and exclude others is nowhere more apparent than when it comes to the possession of land. Wars have been fought over it, the concept of title embodies it. Trespass on my land and I’ll call the cops because protection our property and possessions is one of the reasons we pay them .