GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Capitalism’s Crisis is Morgan’s Opportunity
As a Marxist I never thought I would say it, but Gareth Morgan, founder of The Opportunities Party (TOP), is to the left of Labour and the Greens on most things
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: Geoff Simmons – Three reasons why I am the only choice in Mt Albert
A vote for The Opportunities Party is a vote for business with heart, but certainly not business as usual.
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GUEST BLOG: Moana Maniapoto: The Willie Jackson I know
Willie Jackson can be really annoying. In fact, that was one of the reasons we divorced about 16 years ago. Another reason, no doubt, was that he got fed up with me. But that’s the way things can pan out in a marriage. In New Zealand, according to the stats, one in three married couples split up.
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GUEST BLOG: Mat Danaher – The Time for a Living Wage is NOW
The announcement this morning of the revised rate for the Living Wage, $20.20 an hour comes at a time when the concept is undergoing a sea change in terms of impact and the national debate.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – The health of our democracy is at risk with the Electoral Commission failing voters
The Electoral Commission needs to wake up.
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GUEST BLOG: Paul Moon – Why Willie Jackson could be election decider
Jackson will push the case for urban Maori to receive more government attention, and has the inside knowledge to convert whatever funding is channelled in that direction to achieve something tangible for those who need it most. His work in the area of domestic violence is a good example of such policies in action.
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GUEST BLOG: Paul (the bloke The Standard banned for 3 years) – Fake news
Do the mainstream media think we’ve forgotten the fake news about the Kuwaiti girl Nayirah who claimed to have seen Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? You know, when they repeated the lies of Bush Senior get the US population to accept the invasion of Iraq.
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Birchall – Identity Politics is a Class Politics
Around the world, but very prominently in New Zealand, the turn away from class politics to identity politics as the principal organisational form of the Left occurred just as the social democratic compromise was undone and inequality began to rise again. Unlike class politics, which unites workers of all colours, genders, and sexualities to oppose capitalism, identity politics was not able to deal with this reconsolidation of power by the capitalist and new financial elite.
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GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – A Crook By Any Other Name: Celebrating Cook
Well there goes another February 14th. Evenings of whimsical sighs, chinking champagne glasses, and adoring compliments across the Pacific as indigenous folks send their thanks out to the Hawaiian cousins that took care of business, and finally put an end to the diseased, kidnapping, murderous, thieving invader called Captain James Cook.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Starving Prisoners scavenging from bins inside prison
Our rations are meagre enough on Corrections $4 per day food budget without this carry on.