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Young New Zealanders who have grown up in the neoliberal era of low inflation, small and weak private sector unions, and low-to-stagnant income growth will find it difficult to imagine an annual inflation rate of 14 percent with wage rises to match
Mainstream media have always pumped up corporate voices to crowd out alternatives and this last week they have been at it harder than usual.
It is a sad – but entirely fair – question: Do any left-wing parties still exist in New Zealand?
Am I the only one out there wishing for some policy?
Do you want more family distress and even deeper child poverty? Vote ACT.
Personality matters more than policy in the political age where parties are clustered at the extreme centre. Just ask Andrew Little.
I want to address a sort of big question because clearly the system is breaking down. What is that system that is breaking down? Can we do a system reset by tinkering with that system or is a more fundamental change necessary? What is the nature of that change and how do we get there? All in ten minutes of course.
WHEN IT COMES to the disinformation game, the Russians have got “form”. Perhaps their most nefarious exercise in deceiving the world is the evil concoction known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
ARGUING ABOUT CHINA is fast becoming a “thing” – especially on the Left.
All Black great Andy Haden has died and the tributes are flowing for his rugby prowess along with commentary about the various controversies he involved himself with – most importantly his strong support for rugby contacts with apartheid South Africa.