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I look forward to reading Max Rashbrooke’s latest book ‘Too much money” It is past time we had the public debate about the divisive and unsustainable inequality that has been driven by our low-tax, free-market system. Solutions will require vision, bravery and leadership.
The death of former South African President F W de Klerk marks the passing of an era.
I want to celebrate the important role Unite Union has played in uncovering the widespread wage theft associated with non-compliance with the Holidays Act by nearly all employers. This involves the repayment of $2-$3 billion to working families. Many big employers are still working out what they owe. McDonald’s will have payments for 50-60,000 employees over a decade to repay.
The UN Human Rights Commissioner has condemned Israel’s terrorism accusations against Palestinian Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), saying they should immediately be…
MANY NEW ZEALANDERS recoiled with shock and disbelief at Tuesday’s (9/11/21) Anti-Government protest outside Parliament. That all manner of crazy stuff could be found on social media was well understood, but to see that online extremism suddenly brought to life on the streets of the capital city was deeply disturbing. That such a frightening combination of ignorance and anger was festering away inside the body politic came as a profound shock to “mainstream” New Zealand.
https://youtu.be/XCjX5HosRyg https://eveningreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AVFA_November_11_2021.m4a A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss the Covid-19…
It’s worrying, but probably inevitable, that yesterday’s protest at parliament should have ended as a fizzer. It was a mishmash of people and organisations focused on a wide variety of concerns re Covid 19 and government decisions.
ACCUSATIONS OF NAZISM are being flung around “in a carefree manner”. That, at least, is the observation of Dr Kate Hannah, Lead Researcher of the Disinformation Project. Established in 2020 under the auspices of Te Pūnaha Matatini at the University of Auckland, the Disinformation Project seeks to separate fact from fiction in the increasingly fetid ideological climate of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
This weekend the Labour Party held their annual conference. It’s also one year since the announcement of the results of their cannabis referendum, in which a forgotten 48 per cent of voters supported full commercial legalisation.
To all organisations which signed the State House Building Coalition letter to Housing Minister Megan Woods: Kia ora koutou, Yesterday…