GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Capital gains are the opioids of dying capitalism
The debate about the CGT is in full flow but it’s mainly hot air that ignores where capital gains come from in the first place.
Most Recent Blogs
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The CGT betrayal and when the next revolution should begin
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The CGT betrayal and when the next revolution should begin
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Political Caption Competition
There is nothing wrong with these graphics, this is just how TVNZ editorial staff actually see politics no matter the result
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 19th April 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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BREAKING: Public statement on behalf of NZNO President Grant Brookes
It has recently come to light that a petition is circulating among members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa, calling for a Special General Meeting.
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If you think that the NZ Green Party (who are just as wedded to neoliberalism as Labour is) are your new political home, you are delusional
The truth that the NZ Left have to confront is that both Labour and the Greens don’t have the intellectual ability to counter neoliberal economics.
The question then becomes, what will the Left we do about that? Will we continue to vote for parties who pay lip service or look to other political vehicles?
Those questions are now being asked.
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Waikato DHB Board investigates itself over Code of Conduct complaint against Board Chair & CEO
The parents of Nicky Stevens, who died in 2015 while in Waikato DHB’s care, have stated that the DHB response…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Do we want a fairer society or not?
I’m really curious to know how you can have the politics of fairness based on the economics of selfishness.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The rich will remain rich and the poor will remain poor.
That’s what you can take out of the Labour NZ First rejection of a Capital Gains Tax in any shape or form.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – A potential surge for minor parties
There’s probably some percentage of Labour voters thinking of going Green after the no CGT decision.The inequity, the unfairness, the feeling of loss, that a surrender came and stole victory at the last moment from the righteous fixers of the problem.