GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Shaw Thing
Now that the dust is settling on the Turei resignation, it might be time to have a dispassionate look at why she had quit as leader of the Greens.
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We have a media more interested in Aaron Smith’s sex toilet texts than Bill English’s abuse of power texts
Aaron Smith’s sex toilet romp is actually more important to the corporate media than Bill English secretly paying a former staff member a small fortune to protect one of his MPs that National were dependent upon to get legislation through.
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Cowards Bill English and Jonathan Coleman flee protestors at Dunedin Hospital
It says something about how dire under funding in health has become that the Prime Minister and Minister for Health have to flee protestors like cowards.
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One Day Out with Green Team #5
As part of my contribution to the Green party election campaign, I joined the Green’s Billboard Team #5. Our team was assigned to the Rimutaka Electorate – and it was an eventful day…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 20th August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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New UMR Poll – National 40%, Labour 37%, Green 8%, NZ First 9%
The rich white male broadcasters of the corporate mainstream media were trying to convince voters this election that it was a sleepwalk to victory for National. To date, every poll over the last month has proven every single one of them wrong.
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NZ’s huge criminal underclass created from political choice
Criminals aren’t born, they’re created. They’re created in response to a combination of factors such as socioeconomic status (poverty) and class (social marginalisation and exclusion), family dysfunction, illiteracy, unemployment, substance abuse and mental ill-health. And they’re created by punitive laws, ‘penal populism’ leading to policies ‘strong on law and order’, unconscious bias in the police force, and subsequent distortions in remand terms and conditions, sentencing and incarceration.
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It’s A Question Of Values, My Friends: What The Greens Must Do To Survive
New Zealand needs the Greens in Parliament. Not to turn New Zealand into a “thriving green economy” filled with “booming businesses”, but to remind us, at every possible opportunity, that “people are more important than progress”, and that a better world is possible.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 19th August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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LATEST ROY MORGAN POLL: National 42.5% Labour 32.5% Green 9% NZ First 11.5%
The latest Roy Morgan Poll backs up the trend for Labour to grow, but not the horrific meltdown of the Greens…