Why It’s Difficult To Take Seriously Shane Jones’ Attempted Indian Burn On Immigration
There’s a few things to be said around Shane Jones’ recent skirmishing with part of the Indian community over immigration changes.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – How responsible an employer is Pan Pac?
As part of her defence for giving Pan Pac a free ride for 3 years to buy up to 20,000 hectares of NZ land Minister Sage was reported by RNZ as saying ” Pan Pac had been in New Zealand since the 1970s, was a large exporter of quality timber and needed to secure its wood supply.” also” They’ve got a long standing reputation in New Zealand.”
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Why are we selling and not leasing land to foreign companies?
The government’s decision to allow Japanese-owned Pan Pac Forest Products to bypass the Overseas Investment Office and make up to 25 purchases totalling 20,000 hectares of land for forestry for the next three years tells you how deeply embedded neoliberal thinking is entrenched in our government.
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New Zealand to kick off International Day of Action to Boycott Puma
New Zealand will kick off the International Day of Action to Boycott Puma – Saturday 26th October.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs David Seymour vs Mark Jennings vs Bomber: This week – Sky City fire, Euthanasia, Mediaworks & Tauranga Councillor Andrew Hollis’ treaty comments
This week: Sky City fire, Mediaworks, Euthanasia referendum & Tauranga Councillor Andrew Hollis’ treaty comments
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Racist and elitist immigration policy changes from a “Labour” government
The government has implemented a series of racist and elitist changes to immigration policy that is going to create huge hardship and hurt in the migrant communities for anyone who is not already very wealthy.
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SPECIAL REPORT: To Save Democracy, We Must Make The Media Our Own.
WHO WILL RESCUE TV3? Almost certainly not the private sector. Not only is the commercial free-to-air broadcasting model broken, but TV3 remains burdened by its previous owners’ insatiable appetite for debt.
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FIRE IN THE SKY- SMOKE IN THE CITY.
Workers in SkyCity have just come through a traumatic few days. The massive fire at the Convention Centre was seen by many of our Christian union members as an act of God – “Babylon is burning”. A company that has invested so much in property and so little in staff, seems to have been judged.
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The dangers of MSD’s digital welfare state & Labour’s political tightrope
…without any real plans to reform the neoliberal welfare state and without any political courage, this Government have utterly failed beneficiaries.
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Another Government capitulation to the Angry Farming Gods of NZ
Surprise, surprise, the Government have once again capitulated to the angry Farming Gods of NZ and left them out of any obligation to do anything meaningful about climate change…