Are babies’ needs really at the centre of Paid Parental Leave? CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) are concerned that there are huge and growing gaps in how newborns are treated in…
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Decision to veto Paid Parental Leave shows Bill English’s real priorities – NZNO
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is deeply disappointed by Bill English’s decision to veto the Paid Parental Leave bill…
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Government bans importation of (most) asbestos – CTU
Working people have been demanding that the Government ban the importation of cancer causing asbestos for decades. Yesterday the Government…
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Bathrooms and Transgender students
We have so many bloody pressing issues on this planet, preventing people from using the bathroom they feel comfortable in is such a mean spirited petty bigotry.
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Winston spooked by polls – blows dog whistle
Winston’s handling of this is to the right of the Labour Party so it’s an issue he has all to himself, but the simplicity of his solutions are just pantomime and make him look a bit daft rather than critical and stance taking.
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Our racist justice system and Teina Pora
…our racist justice system is destroying and hollowing out huge sections of Maori families and communities. Pora represents a system that has imploded upon itself due to its corrupted bias.
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A mental health system in crisis a symptom of much deeper NZ malaise
…this Government is desperately trying to keep a property bubble afloat to bribe a property speculating middle class while slashing public services for the most vulnerable amongst us.
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Teina Pora was framed – that’s why $2.5million in compensation is a farce
The issue the mainstream media are refusing to focus upon is the simple bare faced truth that this wasn’t all some giant mistake and misunderstanding, this was the framing of an innocent man by the Police who knew he was innocent.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – The Fudget fiddles while Capitalism burns
The NACTS budget is really a fudget for trying to hide the growing weakness of NZ’s neo-colonial economy behind a veil of spin. The Key regime hopes to promote business confidence in a climate of falling profits by ‘tax cuts’ made possible by cuts to public spending on the ‘social wage’ and by ‘dividends’ created by privatising state assets and plundering public resources such as water and fisheries.
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