Housing is a mess. Stop messing with the solutions
The window of opportunity is fast closing to get the taxation of housing right.
New Zealand Politics
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Dear Gun owners of NZ – you don’t like the buy back plan? We are honestly more than happy for you to be arrested and the guns seized from you
I don’t think our gun nut community have appreciated how the rest of us have tolerated their fetish and that after the white supremacist atrocity in Christchurch, we aren’t tolerating it any longer.
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Trump, toxic masculinity and the Christchurch suicide spike – this damage is us as a colonised and coloniser people
The vast majority of those who have attempted suicide will of course be broken men. The twitter feminists will scream they’re all rapists, the trans activists will scream they’re all transphobic, Green MPs will engage in competitive outrage olympics to show how many more threats they’ve received, woke activists will decry all males as free speech Nazis while The Spinoff writers will compete in a tournament of who hates men the most.
Then we wonder why men self harm and destroy themselves in the vast numbers they do. It is clear to anyone and everyone that something terribly wrong has happened to men and our sense of collective masculinity.
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The Luxon hope suggests how talentless National really are
Tell Clarke the fish was this big
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Nothing the insurgents admitted today detracts from the fact that 21 civilians were wounded/killed
The lengths some will go to paint Hager out as a bad faith actor and defend the actions of our own troops, even if those actions were war crimes, are extraordinary.
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What Is A White Supremacist?
THE TERM “WHITE SUPREMACIST” is rapidly replacing the more straightforward “racist” in mainstream journalism. The term is also being used to describe the belief system of Philip Arps, the self-confessed Nazi who was sentenced earlier this week to 21 months imprisonment.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – How about a Maximum Wage?
I’m really not a fan of the American Army, however there is one thing about it I do quite like. The top General is paid about 10 times the salary of a Private.
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Latest Afghanistan whitewash is making me an anarchist
We have a neoliberal welfare state where the stick is the only carrot. It resembles sadism more than social policy.
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Children stolen by the State are worse off in State care than if left with family
No one is saying that a child in danger should be kept in danger, of course not, but that’s not what we are seeing with these uplifts, an enormous percentage of these children do NOT need to be taken into care and without appropriate oversight and providing parents with the legal aid necessary to have their rights argued, there can’t be any genuine resolution here.
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Why is MBIE and the government allowing Restaurant Brands to cheat workers of their annual leave?
Other companies have paid staff back for the 15 years back to the holidays Act law change in 2003 that seems to have created the incentive for companies to simply ignore what was required by law which has led to massive underpayments for workers.