Labour: 100 years old with barely any presence
Well it’s a 100 years of Labour and what can one say? A political movement that began with thunder manages to barely cause a fart these days.
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TVNZ Breakfast and the real reason Hilary left
I’ve watched Breakfast ion TVNZ in the past, and it’s as enjoyable as slamming my hand in a car door. It’s less Morning Report and more the Edge radio show, a plastic banal wasteland that only the terribly bored would ever watch.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 9th 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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Waatea 5th Estate – Political wrap of the week
Issue 1 – Labour/Green vs National over housing – can we solve the housing crisis?
Issue 2: The Chilcott report highlights the madness of the Iraq war misadventure in the same week we extend our Afghan force deployment until past 2018
Issue 3: 30 years of homosexual law reform – where to now?
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The true horror of our unjustified war in Iraq
13 years after the deeply flawed and divisive decision to invade Iraq as punishment for a group of Saudi’s who had no connection with Iraq flying planes into the World Trade Centre, the Chilcot report has finally been released and it paints a grim and disurbingly naive British and American leadership who went to war based on little more than ego and bullshit.
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Why changing the homosexual law 30 years ago was so important to NZ democracy
The role of the state is to enable you to live your life with as much freedom and autonomy as you are capable of, it isn’t there to tell you who you can love and what toilet you must use.
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Now the Dallas Police know what it feels like to be an African American
The history of slavery, racism and a brutal apartheid mentality Police force mixed with America’s ludicrous gun laws is a hateful cocktail of spite that erupts with enough regularity to remind us that there are deep problems still within the culture of our largest Super Power.
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De-marginalising progressive politics
In my own area of the Otara subdivision, only 29 per cent of eligible voters returned ballot papers – well below the greater Auckland average. And the data speaks for itself: older, wealthier, housed and white voters had a much higher rate of ballot return. That’s what the data tells us so our challenge is to encourage a better ballot return from younger, poorer, transient and brown voters