The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 15th February 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Most Recent Blogs
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – TPPA more akin to a ‘surrender document’ than a fair trade treaty
In past centuries when a country coveted anothers’ resources, and wanted to subjugate that country’s interests to its own, it might have used, or threatened to use force. That is what wars were all about.
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Westpac’s new TV advert – where’s Richie running to?
I’m not sure what Richie is running to.
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Look at the media bias covering Key at Big Gay Out
The story told by stuff is of a popular Key being mobbed by fans at Big Gay Out and the Opposition making obligatory visits…
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Pirie – Let Them Eat Flags
So where does one begin with a first stab at becoming a leftie political blogger in the current local and…
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Setting it straight on user-pays in tertiary education – one letter at a time
Labour’s promise of a return to (limited) free tertiary education appears to be unsettling some, for whom the last thirty years has been dominated by the implementation and bedding-in of user-pays (often gradually, so as not to spook the punters) ; reduced-tax; and minimalist-government ideology;
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Zero-hours here to stay – PSA
The government misled New Zealand workers when it promised to outlaw zero-hours contracts – and the Public Service Association’s deeply…
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GE: it’s our right to decide – GE Free NZ
Communities should have the right to decide whether or not genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are released or field-trialled in their…
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Closing the Gap in Education – Closing the Gap
The usual suspects reacted in their usual curmudgeonly ways to Labour’s recently announced policy of three free years of tertiary…
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Locked out Wairoa Talley workers finally get justice – MWU
Yesterday’s Employment Court decision should see AFFCO Talley’s Wairoa locked out workers back at work in the next two weeks,…