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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday – 3rd June 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Open letter to: Hon Anne Tolley, Minister of Social Development – CPAG
Open letter to: Hon Anne Tolley, Minister of Social Development Dear Minister Nga Tangata Microfinance welcomes the financial help for…
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Budget 2016 – Who wins; who loses; who pays?
There is absolutely zero doubt in my mind that the 2016 Budget is geared 100% toward building up a surplus for tax cuts to be announced next year. Just in time for the 2017 Election. John Key and Bill English have strongly indicated as much with their “kite-flying” with hints of cuts-to-come.
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Global Meltdown of Capitalism – time for Kiwi Socialism?
…we need NZ solutions, a Kiwi Socialism, if we want to insulate ourselves to the massive global downturn we are facing. The problem is that no political party in NZ is even close to articulating the radical reforms we need to reverse the damage neoliberalism has created.
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Prime Minister announces he wouldn’t have shot Gorilla – but would have paid it $5000 to leave Auckland
You actually can’t write satire better than this. He’s offering the homeless to leave Auckland for $5000 and offering the poor in the provinces $3000 to move to Auckland but he wouldn’t shoot a gorilla.
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Pettiness of NZ politics summed up in one issue – contraband tobacco vs $900m cost
Our sensible sentencing lynch mob mentality fuelled by get tough on crime politicians and lazy news journalism that uses crime to pump ratings is so overwhelming that the idea Prisons are costing us a billion per year gets eclipsed by the idea Guards are being bribed to give Prisoners ciggies
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MUST READ – A Greek-style Fiscal Crisis in Auckland?
The New Zealand government is trying to exploit Auckland’s housing crisis rather than to solve it or to ease it. Its agenda appears to be threefold: to unseat a non-compliant Council, to force the sale of productive assets owned by the people of Auckland, and to reward those who seek to financially profit by holding rural land.
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Waatea 5th Estate – Suicide in NZ part 2
Joining us tonight to discuss NZs extraordinarily high suicide rates and why so many Kiwis choose to end their own life
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ARTS FUNDING CRISIS: WE NEED TO GROW THE PIE, NOT FIGHT OVER SCRAPS – Equity NZ
Equity New Zealand is disappointed to see that yet again, the wider Arts sector has been ignored in the budget….