Are National Party voters the new Trump supporters of the South Pacific?
That a right wing money trader should exploit the power of Office shouldn’t shock or surprise us, but the widespread devotion to him by so many should.
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Why there shouldn’t be any trading over Easter
I think 30 years of rampant neoliberal consumerism has created an ocean of wage slaves who buy sparkly things in sterile malls to numb the hollowness of a culture that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Tourettes – No Losers @ Winz
No Losers @ Winz, an objective and rational critique of New Zealand’s welfare system, will be the first single off the album.
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BOOK REVIEW: Te Rangihaeata
The central characters in each book represent, for me at least, the ‘most important’ New Zealanders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; namely Ngāti Toa chief, Te Rangihaeata, and our most-loved Australian immigrant, Michael Joseph Savage.
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George FM – Beats Working or Max Key Smirking?
It’s bad enough that Max Key gets to humblebrag his privilege through social media and epitomise all that is wrong with our shallow ‘celebrity’ culture but giving him a free pass so another commercial radio station can give the Keydashian brand even more leverage is eye rolling.
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Here Be Dragons: The Ika Seafood Bar & Grill’s First “Table Talk” Looks At The Year Ahead – Through Right-Wing Eyes.
“Have a care when fighting dragons, lest ye become a dragon yourself.” Nietzsche’s famous aphorism remains as confronting as ever. To beat the likes of the Right’s Matthew Hooton, should the Left attempt to match their Machiavellian amorality? Or, should it simply decide not to invite them onto “Table Talk” panels?
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In the playground of the rich, wealth flaunting is a sport
In a country where there is an abundance of money and resources to go around, an elite selfish and callous few are refusing to share. For a few to prosper many must suffer.
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Anti-domestic violence video shows the price some women pay when England loses The World Cup
This disturbing and violent trend in relation to sports teams loosing or winning, is of course not isolated. In New Zealand when The All Blacks win a game the police reported to the NZ Herald in 2012, that they witnessed an increase in domestic violence.
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‘Abortion Barbie’ is proof women’s bodies are still a battleground
Last Thursday, conservative street artist Sabo plastered parts of Los Angeles with posters he had designed – life-size images of a nearly naked Barbie Doll complete with a plastic foetus inside her abdomen.
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Guerrilla Girls call bullshit on Pharrell
The Guerrilla Girls, an all-female anonymous feminist artist collective, were invited to form part of an exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris called G I R L S, curated by pop singer Pharrell himself which opened on Tuesday. The show claims to “celebrate women who are above all free, liberated by artists and their boundless, unfettered imagination”.