Tourettes – No Losers @ Winz
No Losers @ Winz, an objective and rational critique of New Zealand’s welfare system, will be the first single off the album.
Most Recent Blogs
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Why we need an alternative to Story and Seven Sharp at 7pm weeknights
Where the 4th estate has failed, the 5th estate must succeed. Next week a new current affairs show to go up against Story and Seven Sharp at 7pm will be announced. If you want to help this new endeavour – spread it on social media.
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Defending Free Tertiary Education: Chris Trotter responds to Dr Oliver Hartwich’s defence to the user-pays university
let me respond in kind by declaring that my own experience of free tertiary education threw up not one case of a recipient who did not value their opportunity to explore the life of the mind in their late teens and early twenties. Quite the reverse, actually.
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If the answer is Crusher Collins, the question must be ‘what would make things worse’
…I don’t use the word fuckwit often, but it seems the only possible response to this foolish idea.
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TheDailyBlog.nz Top 5 News Headlines Saturday 13th February 2016
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Face Off, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad vows to retake whole country, Obama plans intervention in Britain’s EU referendum, Pentagon Is Betting Big on Space Warfare + Syria: Russian PM warns of world war if troops sent in
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 13th February 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – My love/hate relationship with Australia
For too long I’ve excused your boorish behaviour because of how your golden shores were so brutally colonised. My Aboriginal brothers and sisters shot down as vermin; the torturous treatment meted out within those convict settlements – irrespective of guilt or innocence, irrespective of youth, age or gender.
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Government boasts of benefit theft
While 2015 did see an increase in the size of the working age population this was driven principally by immigration. The number of jobs in the economy grew, but at a slower pace than the population. The unemployment rate fell, but principally driven by people giving up looking for work. That is not progress.
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The merits of internal discipline
The fractured opposition to the TPP from within Labour has caused a lot of grief within and laughter without. Little has missed an opportunity to present himself as the fearless leader who has no difficulty understanding right from wrong and sorting out dissent within the ranks.
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BOOK REVIEW: Te Rangihaeata
The central characters in each book represent, for me at least, the ‘most important’ New Zealanders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; namely Ngāti Toa chief, Te Rangihaeata, and our most-loved Australian immigrant, Michael Joseph Savage.