Women will fight hurdles to equal pay – NZEI
Women in education will fight the Government’s attempt to create new hurdles that make it harder for us to achieve…
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Serious concerns with Nationals proposed new equal pay law – NZCTU
The Government has today tabled the Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill with the first reading expected next week….
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Emissions Trading Scheme review – Expert reaction – Science Media Centre
The Government has announced a package of changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) following a review of the system….
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 27th July 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Some background info for Guyon Espiner
Either Espiner has forgotten the lessons of history, grimly recounted to him by former Prime Minister Jim Bolger – or he wilfully chose to ignore the dire circumstances that Metiria Turei, and thousands of other New Zealanders, found themselves in at the time.
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Election 2017: Spell-Binder Or Spell-Breaker?
For a distressingly long interval it appeared that the Greens had abandoned this revolutionary narrative for a kinder, gentler, more environmentally friendly iteration of the neoliberal programme. Thankfully, Metiria Turei’s promise to make a bonfire of the infrastructure of neoliberal oppression – most especially of its poverty traps – has extended the promise of a better and fairer future to Kiwis who had almost forgotten how to hope.
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Why I refuse to criticise Metiria & why I stand with her & the tens of thousands of others
Stealing out of need is different from stealing out of greed. I won’t ever damn a mother or father for doing that. That’s an indictment on the system, not on Metiria or the tens of thousands forced to do the same.
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The importance of what Metiria has done and why we should all support her
Metiria admitting she was forced to break the law to feed her child doesn’t make her a hate figure, it makes her a leader who has experienced the cruelty of spiteful social policy firsthand.
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Barry Soper, Guyon Espiner, Duncan Garner & Patrick Gower maul Metiria for being a mother who stole for her child
None of these male broadcasters have had to deal with the horror and cruelty of WINZ. None of them have had to crawl on their belly in a demeaning manner to just pay the bills. They have no idea of the life Metiria had to live, yet in they go with all the judgmental beneficiary bashing neoliberal cultural hate that has become the corner stone of most mainstream media.
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Why NZ deserves the spike in synthetic cannabis deaths – where’s Duncan Garner & John Campbell now?
The real madness, there wouldn’t be any synthetic cannabis issues if we legalised actual cannabis.
The truth is that while it’s poor brown people dying from synthetic cannabis sweet bugger all will be done. The second white middle class kids start dying, watch how quickly society will move.