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There is an enormous amount of online anger about Don Brash speaking at Waitangi this year. On July 2017, I gave a speech at the very same Rotary Club Don Brash gave his infamous Orewa Speech at.
This is how we should respond to Brash.
Weeks after New Zealand voted in favour of the United Nations Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, a supposed grand protest against it took place.
No-one can be ignorant of the rapid rise of these two movements. But few will recognise in their spontaneous eruption why they are the beginnings of a social revolution against capital.
Who owns our freshwater? And who, if anyone,should have the right to sell it ? Two questions we are ignoring at our peril.
What has MSM awards for Politician of the Year and Waitangi Day got in common? Absolutely nothing. You won’t find…
Business is democratically offensive by nature and it’s a pathetic argument that workers must conform to an industry wide democracy before the aligned oppressive decision making minority can be brought to the negotiating table.
Yay! This is really good news, because as we all know tax cuts and less government spending means greater inequality. The rich will get richer the poor will get poorer! Brilliant!
What my colleagues wore is of no interest or importance, what we discussed, debated and talked about as we gear up to deliver on the promises we made the people IS important.
It is good to see Andrea speaking out like a lone voice and to see the media attempting to hold the media to account.
The Speaker is allowed to maintain links with their political party and in the past it has been up to the Speaker whether they attend caucus or conferences.
A fact lost upon the NZME resident half wit Kate Hawkesby in her article titled “What a dag! Is this really how Labour Party MPs dress for a retreat?”