GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – No not all cops are “bad”
No not all cops are “bad”, but unfortunately too big a proportion of them are power trippers and let the uniform, car, taser, pepper spray, gun go to their heads. They let down all the good cops.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – A Taxing Issue.
I see Simon Bridges is dangling the “less tax as a vote for me” carrot this election and that Grant Robertson has immediately wanted to know which services Bridges would scrap in order to run a government on less income.
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Burning Down The House: Will The Greens Be The Death Of The Left?
CAN THE GREENS get themselves back on track?
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Is James Hargest College in Invercargill living in the 1800s?
As the father of a daughter, I would be outraged if after choosing to wear shorts or pants my daughter had to see the bloody counsellor for a discussion on what anyone else thinks!
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MEDIAWATCH: Newsroom should be embarrassed by their ACT Party smear
This story and the attempt to build the protagonist up as a Nazi and ACT benefiting from Nazi donations is honestly such an embarrassing hot mess. There are plenty of good reasons to hate ACT, inventing them is lazy.
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Can Bernie win?
The question isn’t can Bernie beat Trump, he can and will, the question is will the corporate interests who control the Democrats allow Bernie to be the candidate?
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Hippocrates please. Not Hypocrisy
Neoliberal economics , introduced by Labour in 1984 (and still practiced by them ) put on steroids by National and supported today by Greens and NZ First (by virtue of choosing to be in cabinet ) has done enormous harm to the lives of ordinary families in our country and as we head towards the election I’ll be reminding you of the specifics of the damage it has done to the lives of most New Zealanders since its inception and what we must do to change the economic and moral direction of the next government by using your vote to get the best tactical outcome.
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Dr Liz Gordon: 2020
I have regained a small sliver of optimism this week over Bob Jones dropping the defamation action against Renae Maihi.
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MEDIAWATCH: National promises that if elected, they’ll bring back the Housing Crisis
If National get back in, they promise to take NZ back to the Housing Crisis by cementing into place middle class property speculation rights over the working poor, Gen X, Millennials, Māori, Pacifica & beneficiaries.