EXCLUSIVE: TDB interview with Jami-Lee Ross
TDB’s mental health blogger sat down with Jami-Lee Ross to discuss mental health, harassment allegations and the politics behind his fight with National
New Zealand Politics
-
-
GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Why Yellow Vests fused with Extinction Rebellion are the new Red
No-one can be ignorant of the rapid rise of these two movements. But few will recognise in their spontaneous eruption why they are the beginnings of a social revolution against capital.
-
Dr Liz Gordon – Old haunts
I have found new beauties within Aotearoa during this summer. Such a beautiful natural environment. I have also seen cow-poo rivers and streams, poverty, racism and social inequality, of course. These are for another day, another blog.
-
Alan Johnson – No surprise in Government’s rejection of community housing
There should be no surprise in a recent report that Government had turned its back on NGO community housing providers to instead work with developers to provide social housing. This move is both a pragmatic one and an inevitable consequence of the Government’s self-imposed budget responsibility rules. But the community housing providers v developers dichotomy is more complex than some would have us believe.
-
GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Watershed moment for democracy
Who owns our freshwater? And who, if anyone,should have the right to sell it ? Two questions we are ignoring at our peril.
-
GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Politician of the year and Waitangi Day
What has MSM awards for Politician of the Year and Waitangi Day got in common? Absolutely nothing. You won’t find…
-
GUEST BLOG: Margaret Kawharu – Maori economy
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 Margaret Kawharu.
-
MEDIA WATCH: Big Oil propaganda use TV adverts to con NZers
It’s like being told you need another cigarette after being diagnosed with cancer.
-
When State Agencies aren’t spying on us, they are spinning to us
…the neoliberal state agencies know they can keep their Minister’s on a leash AS LONG AS nothing bad gets picked up by the media and exposes their Minister to a roasting, so withholding and spinning information to keep the media blind is essential.
-
Prepare for the deafening scream from middle class Millennials, Xers & Boomers at Capital Gains Tax
The only way you can win a war like this is by making the homeless, the poor, the beneficiaries, the first home buyers and the renting class as self interested as the property speculators because kindness is only going to get you so far when you tell the Millennial, Xer and Boomer middle class property speculator that you are taking 20% of their imaginary wealth.