Pop-up Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 5 Stars (Don Brash would scream)
I am a sucker for Shakespeare. I love the plays, the language and the re-interpretation each re-telling can create.
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Open letter to the Honourable Carmel Sepuloni – end the horror of the neoliberal welfare state
If you are serious about changing welfare in NZ Carmel, then end the punitive debt and crushing punishment that is dealt out to those on Welfare. The bullshit need for the disabled to send in letters annually for disabilities that can’t be ‘cured’. The penalty interest rates put on welfare overpayments, the culture of fear that alienates and the staff who refuse to inform beneficiaries of what their actual rights and entitlements are.
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Why Climate Change could politically splinter the Greens and Labour
The current Green Party are locked into middle class identity politics and middle class environmentalism while Labour are too frightened to use the power of the State to intervene well beyond the timid measures currently being proposed.
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Sweet Jesus – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
I never believed it would happen – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
Her latest column is right.
Kinda.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – What a Trio, a Toxic Trio: Trump. Netanyahu and Mohammed Bin Salman
We here in NZ need to debate our role in the world. There is too much at stake. New Zealand should not be afraid to have an independent foreign policy. Someone must say NO to militarism , NO to war, YES to sanity, YES to humanity.
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Political Caption Competition
So it’s agreed then Mr Trump. I’ll continue manipulating you and you’ll continue taking the planet to the brink of nuclear war with North Korea.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 17th December 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Families package welcome news at Christmas – Office of the Children’s Commissioner
“We welcome the Families Package announced today and we hope it will make a big difference to the lives of…
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Public Equity and Tax-Benefit Reform
Public Equity is not a difficult concept to understand. Equity is about ownership. And equity is about equality. Equal owners own what they own equally. Two equal owners of a house own that house equally. Two people with equal shares in a business have equal equity in that business. In capitalism, we understand equity to represent a private property right. That’s why many of us distrust capitalism; the problem is that emphasis on the word ‘private’.
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Families package signals a sea change for children – CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the Government’s Families Package announced today, which provides a significant boost to income support…