GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Consultation is a good thing. Dithering is not.
When do we stop talking and start doing?
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Heather lectures PM about knowing the Treaty verbatim
Fresh from doubling down on her view that Pacific Islanders are leeches – it was only fitting that Heather du Plessis-Allan recycle the “gotcha” story of the week that Barry Soper had rushed to publish on Waitangi Day.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – The Dangers of main stream media
At least, on the DAILY BLOG, one has the opportunity to challenge wishful thinking promulgated by contributors to media, who in my view are little more than political agents.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Cue Bono – Who benefits?
80 years before the birth of Jesus there was a murder trial in Rome.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – The sophistry of Paul Goldsmith
You may have heard Paul Goldsmith making claims about the number of jobs created so far from the Provincial Growth fund, not to mention how we need four lane highways up North rather than Maori land development and job creation investment.
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GUEST BOG: Barry Sheppard – Los Angeles Teachers Strike Fights School Privatization
After six days of striking and mass mobilizations in the streets, Los Angeles teachers, joined on the picket lines and demonstrations by parents and students, won an important victory: holding the line against further privatization of the public schools.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Wealth and Waitangi
As we reflect on what the Treaty of 1840 means for New Zealanders today it is worth remembering what this first Treaty actually promised – because over the last 30 years a succession of neoliberal governments have entered international trade treaties willfully ignoring the intent and spirit of our very first New Zealand Treaty .
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Media prejudice in evidence over time
Is the word “handout” reserved for the Provincial Growth Fund, Maori and Beneficiaries by the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and Mike Hosking?
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – How you respond to Don Brash
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.
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GUEST BLOG: Louie Encabo – Failure of UN Compact Protests Proved Disinformation Campaign Did Not Work
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.