GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Antics by tourists & media shouldn’t undermine us as good hosts
I think we’ve all been pretty disgusted by the antics of a group of crass tourists but it’s important to keep perspective.
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GUEST HEALTH VLOG: Hadley Grace Robinson-Lewis – Cancer recovery
Confirmed comedians so far are Brendhan Lovegrove, Justine Smith, Mel Bracewell, Eli Matthewson of TV fame. Also debuting Hadley Grace Robinson Lewis.
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – Let’s Rethink New Zealand’s Low Cost Tourism Strategy
Not only is cheap tourism degrading our environment and our infrastructure, but it is also contributing to our appalling record over the past ten years of gas emissions increases when they were meant to be decreasing.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Our housing is severely unaffordable
The latest international Demgraphia survey (which looks at house prices vs incomes) tells us what we have known for many years now – that housing in our country is severerly unaffordable.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Simon Bridges outraged at kindness
In December 2013 the proportion of working age New Zealanders receiving job seeker support was 4.8%
A year later in December 2014 this had fallen to 4.5%
Now in December 2018 despite an average 2.1% population growth rate every year the proportion is still 4.5% and Simon Bridges is outraged.
He is outraged because he blames kindness towards people on inadequate incomes.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – The truth behind Corrections public veneer of concern
My High Court claim against the Crown (as agent for Corrections Dept) for numerous abuses in custody and arbitrary withholding of inmates’ mail without lawful grounds and without informing the , begins February 11.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Patrick Smellie, Matthew Hooton and Fran O’Sullivan order a large plate of ghost wedges
The “Peters is rogue on Foreign policy” wedge theory has no compelling evidence to support it and neither Patrick Smellie, Professor Robert Ayson nor Matthew Hooton have furnished any.
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – Latest research shows Antarctica now losing 252 billion tonnes of ice a year – Māori Climate Commissioner calls for urgent climate action now!
Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, has said the latest research from the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows we need urgent climate action now.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Drug convictions & Māori
The latest report from the Drug Foundation finds that Māori are more likely to face prison after a low level drug conviction. Between 2007 and 2017 there were 62,173 drug convictions and 61% of these were for personal use or possession of a drug utensil.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Whatsnexit?
Yesterday’s overwhelmingly decisive vote against the Theresa May EU leave deal in the British House of Commons raises the question -what will happen next?