GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Corporate Welfare
The central idea of free market capitalism is that governments should not interfere in the marketplace – that businesses should…
New Zealand Politics
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More oil exploration and less drug reform – If elected, Simon Bridges promises to take NZ backwards 40 years
Big oil love and the war on drugs – he’s like some time warp out of the 1970s.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – One law for all?
…One law for the white man, another for the black man.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – You don’t get to risk my grandson’s future.
Just a head’s up. Climate Change deniers don’t get to post on my page.
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Labour & Green Budget Responsibility Rules are strangling us
The 2019 BPS faithfully follows the Government’s self-imposed Budget Responsibility Rules. Mr Robertson’s fiscal conservatism is apparent both in his fixation on these rules and in the surpluses which are expected over the next five years. These surpluses rise from $1.7 billion in the current financial year to $8.3 billion by 2023.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Making life a little better
This weekend and next I am giving presents out to children at the gate house of, respectively, Christchurch Women’s and Christchurch Men’s prisons. I do this work at the men’s prison every year, on behalf of Pillars, the charity for the children of prisoners. For us, gift giving at the women’s prison is a first.
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Stuff & Newshub decides Plunket-Marvelly twitter grudge match is newsworthy – this is what it sounds like when the Emotional Support Peacocks cry
…I love how desperately diplomatic Steve Braunias tries to be towards the alt-Right and woke left snowflakes who have managed to make this micro-aggression into a war crime. It’s the heteronormative patriarchy blame game gal pal squad vs the ‘not all men’ fuckwit brigade.
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The dangers in politicising Grace Millane’s death
Justice campaigner Peter Williams, does a divesting critique of the dangers of politicising Grace Millane’s death.
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If this meaningless dribble is a ‘breakthrough’, we are doomed
Antarctica is melting, run away climate change is a decade away and we have a political environmental leader championing a meaningless side shuffle as some type of victory.
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GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Our babies deserve better
This is not the city or country I want.