GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – How Odd of Todd, how Ill of Bill
Three quick questions over the Barclay/English affair.
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GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – The Last Days of May
It’s looking increasingly likely that embattled UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, will have to stand down.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Corbyn: A partisan revolution?
The reason that thousands of young people flocked to Corbyn’s program was because they agreed with it. As did many die hard older Labour supporters despite decades of Blairism, and before that, decades of Labourite attacks on the working class.
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GUEST BLOG: Julie Carter – Well done Labour!
Labour’s plan to put an end to fake student’s is bang on the money.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – SBW, Mike King and Nicky Hager should be getting honours
It’s another Queen’s Birthday Honours list and although I have never been a supporter of this nonsense and hope that one day we throw out this outdated way of honouring Kiwis, I have to admit there are certainly a couple of people who deserve their honours.
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GUEST BLOG: Alan Johnson – Making sense of the Government’s housing numbers
In a press release of June 1 2017, Social Housing Minister Amy Adams claimed her Government was “planning to increase the number of social houses from 66,000 today to 72,000 over the next three years.” A closer scrutiny of such a claim suggests that it is at best fanciful and at worse misleading.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Analysing the Polls
I’ve had a number of people ask me about the latest TV One News Colmar Brunton Poll. If you missed it, the numbers are: National (49%), Labour (30%), Greens (9%), NZ First (9%), The Opportunities Party (1%), ACT (1%) and the Maori Party (1%).
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GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Death of a Deportee
In December 2015, I interviewed a young Aussie who had been deported from his home to New Zealand, the country of his birth. A 501er, as they are known in the Lucky Country. In the article, I referred to him as Doug for privacy reasons.
His real name was Matt and he killed himself last night.
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GUEST BLOG: Jin An – Serco: New Zealand’s real Minister of Police
Having studied criminal policy, worked as a prosecutor, and served as a justice policy advisor, I can tell you with absolute confidence that all the research concludes that prisons do not reduce crime. Prisons do not reduce crime. Prisons. Do not. Reduce. Crime. But what some of the research does show is that they make people feel good; make people feel more safe. More prisons offer the illusion of greater safety.
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GUEST BLOG: John Stroh – What it means to “AVOID AMERICAN”
On this grand occasion of a visit by a Trump agitator to New Zealand next week – I speak of the former Fossil Fuel Industry ogre who is tasked with the oh so challenging job of finding a use for and promoting the sale of American weapons around the world – it seems timely to serve up a reminder to let go of America. The European Union is doing it and New Zealand as a country has opportunities to follow suite.