Caught up in safety nets – Lifewise
There are still nearly 18,000 people in Auckland on the verge of homelessness.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 18th July 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Neoliberalism – Coming & Going
On Sunday’s Q+A (17/7/16) Corin Dann interviewed Stephen Jennings, the former Treasury official and New Zealand investment banker who took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to make himself a billionaire.
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Rust never sleeps and the Business Roundtable always wants more unearned wealth from the rest of us
It was no surprise to see the New Zealand Initiative (the old Business Roundtable rebranded) provide a platform for a Rogernomics-era free-marketeer, Stephen Jennings, to tell us we needed more market-led reforms – especially in education.
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How the Free Market deals with homelessness and and the Housing Crisis in Auckland
Our housing crisis is a market failure because it’s been left up to the free market. National are in utter denial because they have built their Government on selling off their social obligations to others.
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Park Up For Homes in Hamilton and Napier on July 23 – CPAG
In the height of winter, as wind lashes and rain pours, the #ParkUpForHomes movement is going to extra lengths to…
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Economic Threats From China Expose Lie Of Free Trade
In reaction and response to news that the New Zealand Government has gotten a bit uneasy about decidedly sub-standard Chinese steel being put into our own domestic infrastructure projects (and accompanied by fraudulent safety standard certification, no less), the PRC is apparently considering raising punitive “reprisal tariffs” on Kiwi primary produce exports in order to force our government to move to protect Chinese interests rather than our own.
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Denial of the Maori Experience
On top of the many problems plaguing Maori and Pakeha interactions, one of the most oppressive is the total denial of the Maori experience.