A Modest Proposal
Governments and capitalists are always banging on about how the private sector is more efficient than the public sector., so I’ve got a modest proposal for them.
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Is Westpac an enemy of activists and journalists in NZ?
while I have Westpac’s attention, did you hand over to the Police any other activist, journalist or blogger’s details the way you did with Nicky Hager?
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Key’s Colonial Daze
Somehow, NZ’s PM has convinced himself that, constitutionally, his country remains a colonial appendage of the United Kingdom. That the granting of Self-Governing Dominion status in 1907 never happened. That the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which the First Labour Government adopted in 1947, thereby signalling this country’s emergence into full and independent nationhood, is but a figment of our historians’ imaginations.
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Key and Slater turn NZers against politicians and bloggers
One of the tactics used by far right political fixer Simon Lusk is to raise the hatred and spite of politics so much that people turn away from it ensuring a low voter turn out which always favours the right.
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CYNZ supports Helen Clark’s bid for UN Secretary-General
Commonwealth Youth New Zealand welcomes the news that Helen Clark is running for the positon of UN Secretary-General. “We are…
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Stop the Cuts to Southern Mental Health
Urgent Protest Action Against the Shift of the Community Day Programmes to Wakari Hospital Healthcare activist group, Stop the Cuts…
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NZ’s role in tax avoidance ‘shameful’, says academic – Massey University
A Massey University taxation specialist says the loopholes in New Zealand’s trust law, highlighted by the so-called ‘Panama Papers’, makes…
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The Secret Dossier: Helen Clark isn’t the story – Key’s fear of Trust exposure is
The question is has Key himself benefitted from this? The Icelandic PM has been caught out having a trust in the very banks he was supposed to be legislating against. Does John Key have a conflict of interest in keeping trust law murky because he has two ‘blind’ trusts?
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Raise the flag – and bear it
Where institutional power is so comprehensively unresponsive to the citizens, the voices of opposition must be organised and that organisation sustained.
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