All white gun owners are learning is how NZ Police treat brown people every week
…Police overkill has been a feature of urban policing for a long time now, it’s just this current group being targeted haven’t been targeted in the past.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions
Is our government serious about Climate Change or not?
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Kia kaha teachers!
As a former teacher let me be clear I’m 100% behind our educators in their efforts to get better pay and conditions.
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Paula Bennett is a political coward
Let’s get this straight, Paula Bennett is such a coward, that she refused to appear on a TV panel with Chloe Swarbrick to debate cannabis reform?
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Mega-strike a taste of the new militant Union landscape in New Zealand
Ever since the National Party neutered the Union movement with the Employment Contracts Act, Public sector Union’s have been cowered into acquiescence and the militancy evaporated.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Gee some people get upset when I dare to examine the governance of Labour and Greens
So even at the time of announcing the death of neoliberalism the Prime Minister knew her Party was going to keep the economic philosophy it had introduced in 1984 on life support
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Chinese bottling is appalling
The fact that over several years New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) – the government agency responsible for economic development- encouraged China’s largest Water Bottling company to come to our country and plunder one of our most vital resources is testimony to how entrenched neoliberalism is in government departments.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Thank you for your recommendation but no thanks.
OK.. so far we have had the Tax Working Group review and the government rejected it’s key recommendation that there should be a capital gains tax in some form in order to address our growing problem of inequality.
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The PMs censorship panel highlights all that’s wrong with the current social media/free speech debate
So the panel advising the PM on censuring the internet is an industry spokesperson, a corporate media interest, an angry Twitter rage tech person, a lawyer, a state wonk and someone who used to sing Popera?
And this isn’t a joke?
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Sexual assaults in prison shouldn’t get ideologically hijacked
Let us have a serious debate about sexual assault in prisons by acknowledging double bunking has been an enormous failure in keeping prisoners safe and that it must be removed as a policy if we are to do anything meaningful on sexual assaults in prison.