SAFE says Baboon deaths at Wellington Zoo were irresponsible
The Four baboons who were euthanised at Wellington Zoo today again highlights the inherent cruelty of animal captivity for entertainment,…
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Tax Working Group: CGT a lost opportunity to explore solutions to inequality – CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the Tax Working Group’s (TWG) final report and acknowledges the huge amount of time,…
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Is Corbyn Allowing Yesterday’s Enemies To Win Again?
What the world is currently witnessing in the UK, is the “pre-emptive split” that simply has to happen if the looming, uncontrolled, disintegration of the British Right, and the left-wing victory such an unmediated break-up would permit, is to be circumvented.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Bertram – Climate change & Free Trade
The panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand argued for major changes to address pressing environmental issues. Economist Geoff Bertram explained how a trade strategy could help to address climate change.
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Political Caption Competition
When your ego is so huge it leaves the body and makes itself a t-shirt
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 24th February 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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National’s Environment Discussion Document Business as Usual
National’s new Environment Policy Discussion Document released this weekend in Raglan has plenty of virtue signalling, and motherhood and apple pie. But despite the Party’s claim of an ambitious approach, it fits neo-liberal solutions to ecological problems, and in many ways reflects business as usual.
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The laughable myth of the ‘Kiwi way of life’
The ‘Kiwi way of life’ is a low imagination horizon anti intellectualism based on exploitation of confiscated indigenous resources where ignorance & malice is celebrated by the rural volk while middle class attention is engulfed between school rankings & property speculation.
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A radical mandate is required to address Maori – non-Maori inequality
On the 13th February The Salvation Army launched its 2019 State of the Nation report. I wrote this report for the Army as I have for the past 11 years. This year’s report has picked up on the theme of wellbeing and is titled ‘Are you well? Are we safe?
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CPAG welcomes move to qualified in-home carers
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the move by the Ministry of Education towards more professional in-home early childhood care…