GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Annie Newman on the ‘wellbeing budget’
“You can’t have a ‘wellbeing’ budget if your low paid workers are not having better lives as a result of it”
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Political Caption Competition
Democrats Vs Republicans
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 10th June 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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$17million camera programme good for fishing sector not for dolphins
For years I’ve been writing on this blog and elsewhere about New Zealand’s shame in failing Māui and Hector’s dolphins. Here I go again.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What about the nurses?
Kerri Nuku is the Kaiwhakahaere of the New Zealand Nurses Union. If anyone should know about what contributes to physical wellbeing it’s our nurses – Kerri has bad news for Grant Robertson.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Ganesh Nana on the ‘Wellbeing Budget’
Just prior to the People’s Budget Event we recorded in Otahuhu last Friday I interviewed Ganesh Nana who is the Chief Economist of Business Economic Research Ltd (BERL) . I asked him 4 questions related to the “Wellbeing Budget” and our economic direction.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Be careful for what you wish
BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) have for some time been exploring an alternative to this unique but increasingly fragile, US world oil for dollars hegemony.
Under its newest president, Brazil may have been picked off by the US but certainly, major oil producers Iran and Venezuela have joined this quest.
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GUEST BLOG: Suzie Dawson – Freeing Julian Assange: Part One
We’ve been so busy sifting through the ashes that too few of us have noticed what’s been staring us in…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 9th June 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Can teachers trust Union Leaders not to sell them out?
The neutering of the Union movement from the radical right wing agendas of the 1990s followed by the nothing Helen Clark did for workers, followed by the subdued fear under the Key has left most Union Leaders too shy to actually demand anything so the explosion of activism from the base has finally put real muscle back into negotiations.