GUEST BLOG: The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce Day 26: Good Decision
Good decision yesterday to stay in lockdown level 4 for another 7 days .
New Zealand Politics
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BREAKING: NZ in Level 4 until 11.59pm Monday 27th
New Zealand has dodged the public health nightmare, we now face just as enormous a threat from the economic fallout.
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It’s 420 Day! How to celebrate cannabis safety under lockdown
Whatever you do for 420 today, stay safe in your bubble and may it be filled with pungent vapour.
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MEDIA WATCH: Can someone please wake up the Minister for Broadcasting & Why RNZ-NZoA Citizen’s Handbook highlights all that is wrong in the current NZ media culture
Labour are allergic when it comes to big ideas needed to combat neoliberalism and market failure, they need to inoculate and inoculate fast because some huge ideas need to be invested in to see the media market stabilise.
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Thoughts on the Level 4 announcement and what happens next
TDB was one of the few media outlets who argued at the beginning that this pandemic was a unique event. When many woke activists were screaming that any criticism of the virus was xenophobic racism and that the flu killed more…
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GUEST BLOG: The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce : Day 25 : A Reality Check
If you are wondering if the lockdown is worth it please read the diary of Jason Hill who is working in ER at New York Presbyterian Hospital .
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Dr Liz Gordon: Equity, education and economic recovery
In building the post Covid-19 world, we should reject all of these modes, but take the best from some of them. I think the three main themes need to be economic equity, a nation-building state and education.
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Dear Brothers & Sisters of NZ – we are almost through lockdown and history salutes you for two reasons
Thanks to our Government’s wisdom and leadership we have dodged the public health nightmare this pandemic posed and now must fight the economic armageddon it has generated.
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Urgent action needed to raise and individualise benefits – first step to a basic income for all
I propose that for at least the next six months we should give all unemployed, sickness, invalid and sole parent beneficiaries a tax-free benefit equal to the net national superannuation rate for a single person – $425 a week with a tax on all other income of 39%. I will explain where I got this idea and how it will work a bit later.
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7pm tonight NZ’s first on-line protest – End the blockade of Gaza
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is organising New Zealand’s first on-line protest – complete with speakers, placards and even some chants – this Sunday at 7pm.