GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Media prejudice in evidence over time
Is the word “handout” reserved for the Provincial Growth Fund, Maori and Beneficiaries by the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and Mike Hosking?
New Zealand Politics
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Dear Pakeha, I get this feeling some of you think Treaty Settlements are the end of our debt
The beauty of our egalitarianism and liberal progressive democracy is that it collectively enables agency of all individuals, living up to that promise demands more than a lip service white wash reparations process.
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The cauldron that is NZ Politics right now
Has there been a period of time in NZ’s recent political history when there was so much seething political action and tensions beneath the skin of the body politic?
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5 wishes for Waitangi Day 2019
I have 5 wishes for Waitangi day 2019.
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Hey Russel Norman – did you get your invite to the Shane Jones Waitangi Party?
If that’s true, it brings us back to the question, what on earth does the fishing industry have over Shane Jones?
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – How you respond to Don Brash
There is an enormous amount of online anger about Don Brash speaking at Waitangi this year. On July 2017, I gave a speech at the very same Rotary Club Don Brash gave his infamous Orewa Speech at.
This is how we should respond to Brash.
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Hands Off Venezuela!
VENEZUELA DESERVES DEMOCRACY, but that is not what Venezuela is going to get. What it will get – as the whole world is currently witnessing – is a brutal assault on its people by the world’s most powerful nation. Venezuela is being threatened with economic strangulation, civil war and, should these stratagems prove ineffective in dislodging the government of President Nicolas Maduro, a full-scale military invasion led by the United States itself.
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Māori Climate Commissioner: The Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand (PEPANZ) are not the future
“One of the few bold measures this Government has done to combat climate change, banning future oil exploration, is being attacked by Big Oil who are desperate to hide the fact they are now a sunset industry”.
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GUEST BLOG: Bill Rosenberg – Tax & Finance
The second panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like was on the Internationalised Economy. This contribution is from Bill Rosenberg on financial stability and tax.
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On Venezuela And Judith Collins’ Sudden Inexplicable Enthusiasm for Democracy
There are a few things to be said about this attack-line from the National Party’s Judith Collins. One of which, is that Collins either doesn’t know, or more likely simply doesn’t care about the facts of the situation. Juan Guaido did not contest the 2018 Venezuelan Presidential Election. It is therefore impossible to truthfully call him the “rightful winner” of said Election.