SOUL travellers return from the UN Indigenous Peoples Forum
A rousing welcome is planned at Auckland International Airport at 1:00 pm on May 5, for campaigners returning from the…
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Three strikes and Minister Brownlee should be out
In twelve days Gerry Brownlee has shown why he should never have been appointed Foreign Minister.
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Selling farmland to China highlights madness of free market Government
…the only guiding principle of Landcorp in this issue has been making the most money, as if the pennies that can be created today justify the loss of the land for the future. Our economic sovereignty can not be maintained if we sell our most productive land to overseas investors, it’s as simple as that.
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AAAP Guerrilla attack on WINZ & is it time beneficiaries started a vandalism campaign this election?
The simple truth is that most of our welfare agencies are now staffed by people without the necessary compassion skills to do anything useful in the lives of our most vulnerable. If beneficiaries really wanted to vent their fury at the manner in which WINZ staff treat them, then they could do that with a vandalisation campaign this year.
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ComedyFest review: Markus Birdman, Wrestlemania 33 & Logan – a requiem for the cultural death of Generation X
Markus Birdman is a fascinating comedian and proof that the snippets you see of an act in a big gala is not indicative of the comedians full body of work. In short bursts, Birdman is a cynical but well read 40s something solo father of a 12 year old but in a full show he is a philosopher who encapsulates the zeitgeist of the cultural death of Gen X.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Democracy for Dummies
Bravo Rachel Stewart for taking on the ‘sour Old Men’. It is true that a few ‘grown-up boys’ chose to lecture her in public. That is their problem. Not that I mind being a sour old man. What I am sour about is not the end of ‘democracy’ but the general ignorance about ‘democracy’. That is not confined to any particular gender or generations, but to all those in thrall of what passes for democracy in capitalist society.
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New health targets for children welcomed – CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) commends the Government’s new Better Public Services (BPS) health targets which it says has improving…
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An Invitation to Laugh – ComedyFestival 2017
Next Tuesday, May 9th, we open some major headline Comedy Festival acts at The Classic
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Commission gets it right by declining NZME/Fairfax merger
This week New Zealand Commerce Commission released its final decision to refuse the proposed merger of two of the countries biggest newspaper networks: NZME and Fairfax. This is a decision worth celebrating, as the proposed merger would have seriously weakened an already diluted quality of news and diversity of voices in New Zealand media.
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Political Caption Competition
Heeeeeeeeeeeeres PADDY!