All employer-assisted migrant workers deserve a chance to have a pathway to residency
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New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Claire Trevett’s remarkable blindness
It’s hard to not say something when a deputy chief political editor for the NZ Herald writes that Helen Clark failed to do anything about gun reform laws, and even NZ First who have been in opposition before October 2017….but leaves out the big blue elephant in the room.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Turn that frown upside down Mike
Mike Hosking wrote to his “miserable bugger” audience on NewsTalk ZB today that with GDP at 0.6% growth for the last quarter and with an annual growth barely above 2% , money was increasingly not going to come from the once “Rock Star Economy” to pay the “useless”.
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The Roots Of His Rage: Can Winston Peters Save NZ First?
SO, WHAT DOES NZ First do now? The Goddess of History hasn’t just foot-tripped Winston Peters and his party, she’s hurled them bodily into a very deep hole. The Christchurch Mosque Shootings have disabled just about all of the “hot-button” election issues upon which New Zealand’s right-wing populist party has depended since its inception. Robbed of its ability to rouse conservative voters against “Maori Separatism”, the “Asian Invasion”, and “Islamic Extremism”; where does NZ First go? How does a right-wing populist party do populism without right-wing slogans?
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Mike Hosking doubles down on bigotry – the man has all the empathy of a chainsaw on meth
When someone says something inanely ignorant and hateful, (especially right after the nation is still reeling from the violence of a white supremacy atrocity), one would think that those with media platform wishing to at least pretend to look like they are attempting to project some basic empathy would not repeat or support the inanely ignorant and hateful thing.
One would have thought.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Audrey Egg Foo Young
You may have been forgiven for thinking Audrey had nothing at all to say about the terrible events recently, because she seems to have skipped over these matters.
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The Blame Game Continues
Was it at all plausible that the Christchurch Shooter acted entirely alone? Is it possible that such a man could hide in plain sight – drawing absolutely no attention to himself for more than two years? How was he able to afford the extensive foreign travel he is known to have undertaken? The guy had no job – so who paid his rent? Could someone without extensive training in terrorist techniques have planned and executed so large and lethal an operation? If not, then who trained him and guided him under the authorities’ radar? Were the 15/3 attacks really a “lone-wolf” operation – or did the Christchurch Shooter have help?
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Of course, the left wants a capital gains tax…
There is an old 4 bed room house in Epsom I drive past that has been left to deteriorate, uninsulated, mouldy and damp, rusty roof and leaking gutters set in overgrown unkempt grounds. It was sold to an overseas owner five years ago it now belongs to another overseas owner who paid $500,000 more for it and has it in the hands of a letting agency. Rent has come down by $80 a week to $915 a week after it was empty for months. It is not alone, there are many other examples throughout Auckland.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Exclusionary principles
Exclusive property for sale! Exclusive offer! Exclusive Brethren! Exclusive school! Wherever we look, the politics of exclusion dominates the physical and political landscape. And while it may be argued by some that ‘exclusive’ does not really mean ‘exclusion’, a quick look shows that it really, really does. It defines social hierarchies, enables bullying and corruption and strongly demarcates social class, gender and ethnic boundaries.
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Climate Change Armageddon vs Economic Global Meltdown or both?
If climate change as an existential threat to our species refuses to motivate Governments into action, maybe losing money might? The latest research from the Fed spells out how climate change could spark the next financial meltdown…