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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Annie Newman on the ‘wellbeing budget’
“You can’t have a ‘wellbeing’ budget if your low paid workers are not having better lives as a result of it”
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What about the nurses?
Kerri Nuku is the Kaiwhakahaere of the New Zealand Nurses Union. If anyone should know about what contributes to physical wellbeing it’s our nurses – Kerri has bad news for Grant Robertson.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Ganesh Nana on the ‘Wellbeing Budget’
Just prior to the People’s Budget Event we recorded in Otahuhu last Friday I interviewed Ganesh Nana who is the Chief Economist of Business Economic Research Ltd (BERL) . I asked him 4 questions related to the “Wellbeing Budget” and our economic direction.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Be careful for what you wish
BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) have for some time been exploring an alternative to this unique but increasingly fragile, US world oil for dollars hegemony.
Under its newest president, Brazil may have been picked off by the US but certainly, major oil producers Iran and Venezuela have joined this quest.
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GUEST BLOG: Suzie Dawson – Freeing Julian Assange: Part One
We’ve been so busy sifting through the ashes that too few of us have noticed what’s been staring us in…
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GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Open Letter to the Serious Fraud Office
Council representatives on this committee were left with no idea as to who had bid on the CAB building, what dollar values were bid on it and why the final decision was made to advance interests with a company known as Tawera Group in 2016.
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GUEST BLOG: Joe Lauria – Prison video of Assange emerges: Join 33rd Online Journal
A video has emerged purportedly of Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison, showing a healthy Assange, while he instead remains hospitalised.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Grant Robertson is delivering a $3.5 Billion surplus but there is ” no more money for teachers” says the Minister of Education.
We have the third lowest government debt in the OECD yet Greens co-leader James Shaw advocated the “Fiscal Responsibility” rules both parties signed which pushes already low government debt even lower, while private debt ( I’m talking things like tertiary education debt, household debt credit card debt that kind of thing ) is sky rocketting.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – City Rail Link billion dollar blow-out: Twyford & Goff asleep at the switch
The announcement of a billion dollar cost blow-out for the City Rail Link (CRL), 3 years after start of construction, is deeply troubling. At $3.4b, that is $1b per km, the CRL was already going to be one of the most expensive rail tunnels in the world. Now the price has shot up to $4.4b ($2.2b from ratepayers) with completion pushed back to 2024. Troubling also, given Auckland Council’s level of debt which is approaching $8.5b, close to the borrowing limits recommended by the international credit agencies.