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.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Antidote to Mike Hosking
Get a glimpse of real life in South Auckland from Auckland City Councillor Efeso Collins for example. As oppsed to the view that Mike Hosking gets looking out the window of his Ferrari as he drives by it on the motorway.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – “Wellbeing” who would not be for it?
Is there really no more money for teachers when we are running a $5 Billion surplus and have one of the lowest rates of government debt in the OECD?
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Morgan – European election results – Why we should care in NZ
Over the weekend Europeans elected their new governments, turning in increasing numbers to parties at the ends of the political spectrum. Europe polarised in a three way retreat from the centre. Across Europe and in Britain support for the far-right, far- left and Green parties surge. The losers were centrist parties.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – It’s all to do with oil, mate
Religion is definitely the major cause of war over the centuries and today remains a massive contributor to murder in the name of Righteousness. But Oil has taken stage as “King of Kings”.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Creative Boldness Needed
Simon Bridges has announced the National Party’s Foreign Policy. “National will prioritise our relationship with the United States, and leverage…