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The entire banking system should be taken over as a public service
New Zealand Politics
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Integrating Seamlessly With The Lowest Common Denominator
EVERYONE HAS HAD a good laugh at RNZ’s “Music Strategy” featuring “The Ten New Zealanders”.
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Medicinal cannabis wins and polls point to cannabis referendum’s recipe for success
Improvements to New Zealand’s new medicinal cannabis scheme – together with recent polling – suggest how we can win the cannabis referendum, writes Chris Fowlie.
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Forgetting To Remember New Zealand’s Racist Election.
WHAT’S WRONG with our journalists? Why do so many reporters and columnists memories appear to fail them? Only this morning, the veteranNZ Herald columnist, Brian Rudman, contributed yet another lapse to the Fourth Estate’s growing tally of memory malfunctions. He’s one of theHerald’s best, of course, with years of intelligent and splendidly trenchant commentary behind him, but today’s memory fade is every bit as egregious as the historical deficiencies so apparent in the writing of much younger journalists.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Media and Coronavirus COV -19
Let’s be sensible and caring . But let’s not panic.
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Why an economic correction isn’t the end of the World
The Novel Corona Virus and potential recession may provide an opportunity to reconsider the social and economic settings that have led to political and environmental instability around the world.
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Waatea News Column: Can John Tamihere resurrect the Māori Party?
John Tamihere has entered the 2020 election as a candidate for the Māori Party in the Tamaki Makaurau electorate and if successful, could reshape the next Government.
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Jacinda has no choice but to shut down Christchurch memorial and Pasifika
The sooner we start planning for this to be a worst case scenario event, the sooner we can prepare for that worst case scenario.
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Dow meltdown is the time for transformative change Jacinda
The moment that the Left wing have been dreading is now upon us. Since the intellectual capitulation by the Lange Government to the neoliberal revolution, the Left have been philosophically stillborn when it came to a counter to free market globalisation. On the left we have ignored class and the economic hegemony for Identity Politics fads.
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Jeanette Fitzsimons: 1945-2020. An Assessment
What then, we are left to wonder, did Fitzsimons make of the Green Party in 2020? Did she see it as a source of pride, or as a cause for concern?