GUEST BLOG: John Stroh – TOP’s unconditional basic income – an unequivocal game changer?
I went to last night’s ‘town hall meeting’ with Gareth Morgan with some questions around the viability of his play…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Good on Devoy for taking on institutional racism
Congratulations to Race Relations commissioner Dame Susan Devoy for her courageous stand challenging the Government to hold an independent inquiry into the abuse of children held in care by the state.
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GUEST BLOG: Duncan Eddy – Just a Little Bit of History Repeating?
Bill English seems to be as inept at leading the National Party now as he was in 2002, when the Party suffered its worst ever defeat at the polls. So, if John Key is the Keith Holyoake of our modern era, is Bill English the modern version of Holyoake’s hapless deputy, John Marshall?
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – The Opportunities Party Climate Change Policy
The Opportunities Party, (TOP), have held a Launch for the release of their Climate Change Policy in Dunedin South.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – International Women’s Day 2017, and Palestinian Women Prisoners –
On International Women’s Day 2017 human rights NGOs reported that 55 Palestinian women and girls, including 12 minors under 18, were being held on Israeli jails. Some of the women are suffering from injuries but not receiving adequate medical help.
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GUEST BLOG: James Norton – Outrageous conduct of The Lines Company
Why would your readers outside The King Country want to read about The Lines Companys dodgey pricing? Because the government wants to extend the Peak Load Pricing Model to all lines companys throughout NZ.
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GUEST BLOG: David Tank – Bill’s Super bluff a con for coalition with Winston
Let’s see then…23 years from now …2040AD… 8 General Elections gone, boomers but a memory and all the whiles amidst an endless series of social, political and environmental disasters… a terrible tidal wave… a flood…wars… plagues… famines… hell…even cats and dogs living together in peace and harmony!
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GUEST BLOG: John Stroh – Pragmatic Politics
I am developing more and more dislike of our personality politics and the kind of class-conscious elitism that comes in the guise of most, if not all, “isms” that drive our traditional political parties in New Zealand.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Kaupapa Maori is the new Kiwi socialism
for me, Kaupapa Māori can be the solution to much of the damage the free market has caused our communities and wider society. Instead of the ‘me first, me first’, mantra of the market, the communal values of Kaupapa Māori calls for a holistic view of the individual and their place within the group.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Auckland’s dirty secret – can we handle the truth?
Sewage pollution of the inner Waitemata harbour is a direct consequence of Auckland’s disproportionate growth. The failure to provide for sufficient basic sanitation infrastructure is something the Auckland Council and the government driving these growth policies would rather the public know as little as possible about.