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It’s short sighted to market our brand to overseas tourists on our natural beauty and heritage when biodiversity is declining, many of our animal ‘attractions’ are threatened with extinction, and rivers and bays are too polluted for swimming.
Over the weekend, the new Colmar-Brunton poll came out. It codified one truth, and revealed others:
Corporate theft of workers’ holiday pay appears to be routine according to an investigation by Unite Union that began last year.
— IF BERNIE SANDERS is to win the US Presidential Election he’ll have to win the support of two crucial…
At first sight, for many well-meaning people, the two-states ‘solution’ would seem to be the most rational and just way…
The capstone achievement of the Savage-led ‘social security’ reform was a genuinely ‘universal’ superannuation that caught the imagination of middle New Zealand; the world’s first explicit demogrant, a ‘universal basic income’ for all older New Zealanders.
I read Steven Joyce’s “open letter to the TPPA protesters” with a great sense of incredulity.
Yesterday morning, we woke up to news that government agencies are quite literally “inventing numbers” in order to make themselves seem competent and measure up to the government’s public service performance targets.
ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN the wonders of modern Chinese architecture might easily be persuaded that “neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics” is a spectacular success. But the skylines of Shanghai and Beijing testify not to the emancipation of the Chinese masses, but to the burgeoning power of the Chinese elites.
The government assault on state housing, state house tenants and Housing New Zealand is one of the most shameful episodes in the history of this country.