Herald front page highlights why we need a 5th estate
The fourth estate has obligations to hold the powerful to account, lazy journalism that jumps on social media for news doesn’t do that.
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This is what cheerleading hate looks like
Hate cheerleading
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Academy Awards respects The Revenant – but watch the sneering in 1973
It is good that the movie gets respect and that Native Americans are shown in a light that goes beyond the whitewashed history America clings to. The genocide, lies, murder and butchery committed against the first nation of America is still a crime the US has never paid for.
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With Peter Jackson’s history, will remaking ‘The NeverEnding Story’ become a 7 hour trilogy?
After the shlock of The Hobbit and the never ending Lord of the Rings, I’m not sure we want Peter Jackson remaking a movie called ‘The NeverEnding Story’.
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WAIHOPAI SPYBASE PROTEST SATURDAY JANUARY 23rd
Waihopai does not operate in the national interest of New Zealand. In all but name it is a foreign spy base on NZ soil, paid for with hundreds of millions of our tax dollars; it spies on Kiwis and foreigners; it is NZ’s key contribution to America’s global spying & war machine. Waihopai must be closed.
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Can we avert economic Armageddon?
Big banks and mainstream economists are now predicting an economic disaster befalling the world economy over the next few years.
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Proposed Marine Protected Areas legislation will fail our Oceans – Forest And Bird
The Government is failing to protect our oceans by not including our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in its Marine Protected…
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Innovation the loser in gender imbalance in New Zealand businesses – Human Rights Commission
At the current rate of women directors being appointed to NZX – listed company boards it will take around 15…
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Researchers appalled at alcohol report – University of Auckland
An alcohol industry funded report that claims alcohol is not a cause of violence has been debunked by researchers in…
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Record funds raised for struggling parents – Salvation Army
Warehouse Stationery customers have donated $65,564 to parents struggling to pay for their children’s back to school costs – doubling…