When will Grant Robertson come to the aid of the party?
There will be a moment when all good men must come to the aid of the party. Grant is simply waiting for that moment.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – JOURNALISTS UNDER ATTACK
Yasser Murtaja, 30-year old Palestinian photojournalist , was shot and killed by Israeli IDF snipers on 06 April, while covering the first Friday of the Gazan Great March of Return. Murtaja, standing well back from the barrier fence, was wearing a blue flak jacket , marked in large letters PRESS. He was shot in the abdomen, just below his flak jacket. Five other Palestinian journalists were shot that same day.
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National spins new “fake news” narrative: there is no health crisis
National is under attack. It’s reputation as a “prudent fiscal manager” is threatened by a growing realisation that it has achieved government surpluses at the expense of under-funded DHBs, decaying infrastructure, poorly resourced mental healthcare, budget cuts to DoC, frozen funding for Radio New Zealand, cuts to early childhood education and schools, etc.
After nine years of frozen budgets (a cut, once inflation, population growth, and other pressures are factored in), New Zealanders have been made to understand the painful realities of austerity-National-style;
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Political Caption Competition
French diplomacy
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 1st May 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Labour Party attack Kim Dotcom – major blunder
The new Government should not be challenging this case, they should be accepting the Human Rights Review Tribunal’s decision and should be trying to cut a deal with Kim.
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The rats you need to swallow to believe the Public Service is neutral
The predictable outcry from the PSA that any suggestion their members actually have to implement policy by the Government of the day by screaming they must be neutral is funny.
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National pledges to do nothing and take a huge step backwards
This is a Party who actively went out of their way to bleed infrastructure spending and all of a sudden National are willing to fund it?
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Respects to Deborah Hill Cone
In a culture where micro-aggression policing occurs on social media networks fuelled by outrage, the ability to take offence and bloat it into a war crime means we are often left defensive and resentful in response which feeds the algorithms and Mark Zuckerberg makes another billion.
Deborah has shown us what an apology with grace and humility looks like.
Many respects to her.
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Happy 200th Birthday Karl Marx
May the fifth marks the 200th birthday of Karl Marx – philosopher, political economist and revolutionary. A few days before the celebrations begin he granted this extraordinary interview at an unnamed ale house in Auckland.