Walking for Palestine
Walking Te Araroa – from Cape Reinga to Bluff – carrying this important message on my T-shirt.
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Summer Contributions Drive
Brothers and sisters, Comrades, it’s that time of year again when we pass the hat around so we can pay the bills over summer – if you want to support independent blogs who have done so much to counter the right wing bias of the mainstream media, then we need your support.
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Hold The Phone! For The First Time, OIO Does Something About One Of CAFCA’s “Good Character” Complaints
No acknowledgement of CAFCA’s role and the OIO hasn’t bothered to tell us but we’ll take the credit and chalk it up as a first. More please. The whole subject of “good character” is one that needs to be front and centre in the Government’s stage 2 review of the Overseas Investment Act, which is being undertaken this year.
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SPCA’s 1080 position will lead to cruel deaths and extinctions – Forest and Bird
Forest & Bird says the SPCA’s statement calling for 1080 to be banned shows a naïve failure to understand how…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Freezing MP wages was the right thing to do
When we have so many Kiwis struggling to make ends meet on low wages and benefits, the idea of agreeing to politicians automatically gaining a 3% pay rise was wrong.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Is there a fairer way to trade ?
Yesterday the JusTrade.nz, site was launched. It builds on a two-day hui held in late October, convened by Auckland Law Professor Jane Kelsey, which debated what an alternative 21st Century progressive trade strategy for our counrty could look like.
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Political Caption Competition
The new National Party math curriculum was criticised from day 1.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 10th January 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Twelve fun facts about National’s failed housing policies for Parmjeet Parmar to consider
National’s List MP, Dr Parmjeet Parmar, has launched a scathing attack on Housing NZ on social media and in a story in the NZ Herald;
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Trump’s done enough to manufacture his border crisis in the minds of his supporters
He’s done enough to spook with crime stats & inject righteous fury into his support base – he’ll announce it’s a National Emergency once Democrats turn down this latest offer to mimic the pretence of being reasonable.