GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – What’s new on the News?
Seems to me that unless a news media site produces New News, at least every 12 hours, many are dismayed and move onto another site. Anything for, New News!
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – New Zealand medias pro America bias
In my view, Radio NZ are another example of main stream media which undermines its historical reputation as a balanced purveyor of news, with a constant diet of shamefully one side pro American perspective of world events.
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Hadley Grace Robinson-Lewis: 5 tactics to stop the alt-right from spreading hate and dividing the people
Jordan Peterson is coming to NZ in 2019. Instead of reacting in anger to his out of date views, let’s start a healthy debate.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Ngā mihi o Te Tau Hou ki a koutou katoa – Happy New Year everyone.
With 2018 over and 2019 dawning, as co-chair of the Māori Caucus inside the Labour Party, I wanted to take a moment to congratulate and celebrate our Māori MPs who have had a challenging, but rewarding year.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – We can solve huge problems if we want to.
Right now the New Horizons Space Probe is 6.4 Billion Km from Earth and sending back data to NASA and last October the Japanese landed a small robot on a asteroid hurtling through Space 300 KM away.
Those are amazing achievements.
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Louie Encabo: 2018 marked National’s gradual descent into populism
In 2018, the National Party – under the leadership of Simon Bridges – very clearly attempted to push for the “Trump vote” in a bid to increase their voter base.
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Lois Griffiths: Welcome to 2019 (or is it 1984?)
US citizen Bahia Amawi is a language specialist who works with autistic and speech-impaired children. She received a master’s degree in speech pathology in 1999 and, since then, has specialized in evaluations for young children with language difficulties . For the last nine years she has worked with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school children in Austin, Texas. Each year she signed an annual contract that allowed her to continue.
But now she has been told that she is fired!
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Bryan Bruce: Prof. Kelsey’s new year message
I wasn’t going to write today but last night I received a press release from Prof Jane Kelsey about the fact that the TPPA- minus America ( and now called the CPTPP) went into force yesterday.
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Ross Meurant: Nash is right, the black markets impact on our lives
The essence of my proposition is: The State should become the provider of goods currently provided by the Black Market (which means gangs and organised crime), and thereby nullify the impact of crime syndicates which can and do e.g. Noriega in Panama and Escobar in Columbia -ultimately control governments and/or pervade the Hallowed Halls of power with bribes.
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Bryan Bruce: Call no man “sir”
While I think it is important to acknowledge people for their contribution to our communities and our country, I do think it’s time we had the discussion again about what Knighthoods and Damehoods signify.