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This will be one of the more unusual, and probably contentious, blogs I’ve written, but I’ve come to the conclusion that ACT has paid significantly more attention to putting out a coherent mental health policy than any of the other parties currently represented in Parliament.
Boss Extorts $100,000 From Workers
Workers Forced to Give Cash for 3 Years
Exploiter ‘Sells’ Petrol Station to Son to Avoid Justice
There has not been a one-party government in New Zealand since 1993. It was a crap government, led by Jim Bolger but determined to continue the strong neo-liberal path opened up by Labour (1984 and 1987) and confirmed by their own National Government (1990, the mother of all budgets, make the rich richer and the poor poorer).
DOLLAR DEALERS, an Auckland pawn shop chain, sacked several workers after taking nearly $500,000 from the COVID fund set up to protect these workers’ jobs.
On 1 September, Israeli soldiers assaulted and silenced a 68-year-old farmer, Khairi Hanoun, for peacefully, even if noisily, protesting against the theft of his land by the Israeli Occupation.
By branding whites, men and straights as the “structural” enemies of justice and equality, identity politics set its followers on a collision course with the very same white working-class males the far-right were seeking to recruit.
Judith Collins has been coached.
Dr Yara Hawari of the Middle East Institute summed up well yesterday’s signing of an agreement to “normalise” relations between the US, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
LET’S BE HONEST, last Saturday’s Advance NZ rally in Aotea Square was bloody impressive.
The parlous state of schooling, which, despite the best effort of the Tomorrow’s Schools working party, has barely been addressed in this government’s term.