NZ Post – how to lose business and alienate people
So much for NZ Post assuring the public that it would not be “closing or downgrading” services to any areas. Provision of services now appear to be haphazard.
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: They Spy With Their Little Eye – NZ Spy Scandal: The Elephants In The Room
The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand, writes exiled Kiwi journalist Suzie Dawson.
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Silence Of The Lambs: Why Is The CTU Saying So Little About The Resident Doctors’ Struggle?
Union rivalries should not be allowed to obscure the very real threat posed to the New Zealand trade union movement by the DHBs’ divide-and-rule strategy. If Powell and her CNS negotiating team are beaten, and the RDA sustains a massive industrial defeat, then employers in other sectors of the economy will not be slow to follow the DHBs’ lead.
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Both Labour and National responsible for growth of homelessness and poverty
Basic benefit values were cut from 40% to 30 percent of the average wage in the early-1990s. Those cuts were dubbed Ruthenasia in recognition of the role of the then Minister of Finance of the newly-elected National Party Ruth Richardson who delivered the budget with the cuts.
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Dr Lis Gordon: So many ways to bring down prison numbers
With such a high proportion of all prisoners being sentenced to two years or less in prison, there is space to look at alternatives. Most countries have different types of prisons, but New Zealand has only one. Options such as open prisons for minimum security prisoners, employment training prisons, drug and alcohol therapeutic prisons and so on are possible.
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Why Republicans Don’t Want YOU To Go Hard For Gabbard
I’ve seen a few strange things this morning; but one of the more peculiar has to be the Republican Party attacking Tulsi Gabbard’s just-announced Presidential candidacy, on grounds that “Progressives have blasted her”.
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Maori solidarity with Chinese Migrant workers struggle
Ngati Whatua leader Parata Hawke makes the links between those struggling against a racist capitalist system.
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Walking for Palestine
Walking Te Araroa – from Cape Reinga to Bluff – carrying this important message on my T-shirt.
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Launch of JusTrade.nz heralds a new campaign for a 21st century trade agenda
‘The message from the hui was very clear: we need to generate real alternatives that confront climate change and disruption, while supporting sustainable local businesses and jobs that pay a living wage, in a nation founded on te Tiriti o Waitangi.’
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Twelve fun facts about National’s failed housing policies for Parmjeet Parmar to consider
National’s List MP, Dr Parmjeet Parmar, has launched a scathing attack on Housing NZ on social media and in a story in the NZ Herald;