Beneficiaries and lowest-spending households feel greater impact of rent rises – Statistics New Zealand
Rising rents affected beneficiaries and lowest-spending households the most in the December 2019 quarter, Stats NZ said today. Each quarter,…
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Unemployment rate down to 4.0 percent – Statistics New Zealand
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.0 percent in the December 2019 quarter, down from 4.1 percent (revised) last quarter,…
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Waitangi Day reminder as to why Māori have every right to be pissed off
Waitangi Day reminder as to why Māori have every right to be pissed off
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Waitangi Day 2020 – 180 wasted years: We have run out of time to solve the grievances of the past
The Treaty hasn’t just failed Māori though, its intrinsic promise to protect the rights and agency and self sovereignty of all people in this land has been molested since the neoliberal reforms that fed the grotesque inequality we see around us today.
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The question isn’t why should RNZ have a youth station, the question is why has it taken this long?
Before I was banned from Radio NZ about a decade ago, I argued that RNZ should create a youth station format and wrote a column for Metro at the time making my case for it, so the question shouldn’t be why should RNZ have a youth station, the question should be why has it taken this long?
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Political Caption Competition
We will feast on the infants at night sister.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday – 6th February 2020
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Trump just gave a right wing fanatic who claimed the Christchurch atrocity was a “leftist false flag” conspiracy the Presidential Medal of Freedom!!!
The American ambassador should be dragged into Winston Peters Office and read the riot act on how utterly offensive this is to New Zealanders.
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Dear Labour Party, put aside your arrogance and instead think of NZ and not your own selfishness
I appreciate you seem to believe in this bubble of positivity and the politics of kindness.
That’s neat.
However.
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Who are the most psychotically happy journalists in NZ?
Fox News is more balanced when covering Hilary Clinton than ‘One Roof’ when reporting on the property market.