GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Living wage & free lunches
Two good things this week. (1) The Warehouse reached an in-principle agreement with First Union to pay the living wage…
New Zealand Politics
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Where We Stood: Chris Trotter replies to Stevan Eldred-Grigg.
SHOULD NEW ZEALAND have declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939? This is the startling question posed by Stevan Eldred-Grigg, one of New Zealand’s more interesting historians, in an essay posted on The Spinoff.
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100% fake news about New Zealand government policy on funding UNRWA is deeply damaging to Palestinian refugees
This fake news about New Zealand funding for UNRWA is being deliberately spread by the US and fanatical pro-Israeli groups in New Zealand to try and undermine UNRWA and create a stampede of other countries to also withdraw support for the agency.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dave Macpherson – Hold on, aren’t the same people in charge.…?
The same day that the Chief Coroner issued the 2018-19 0fficial suicide statistics, showing an awful 685 kiwis had fallen victim to suicide during the year, our family and many other Waikato residents received another kick in the guts when the body of yet another Waikato DHB acute mental health inpatient was found in the Waikato River near the Waikato Hospital’s Henry Bennett Centre.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Ihumātao
There was no police presence there on Friday afternoon, when I, my colleague Grant, and my injured leg (it has its own presence at the moment) set off across the enforced cordon sanitaire to visit with those staying on the land.
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Suicide rates skyrocket, public housing wait list explodes to 12,644 while beneficiaries queue at 2am – how is this transformative?
I don’t know what’s more disappointing, the lack of transformation or the Prime Minister’s embarrassing attempt to redefine the meaning of transformative into whatever bare majority she can cobble together.
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Your weekly friendly reminder the climate crisis is far worse than predicted and why Fortress Aotearoa is the only solution
…the current political spectrum in New Zealand can not radically adapt fast enough to adopt the changes we must make if we are to survive what is coming. It will require a radical Political Movement that elects a Party to implement Fortress Aotearoa…
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Phil Goff gets free speech war when he least wants it
…the last thing Goff wants while he’s trying to paint Tamihere out as a braggart who boasts about policy he can’t implement is an example of Goff doing the exact same thing during the Free Speech debacle.
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So what would happen if a Political Leader suddenly died? Let’s say Winston
Winston needs to make an appearance very soon to stop the rumours that have exploded.
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MEDIA WATCH: Duncan Garner – we have to starve the village to save the village
Because of the deunionised work force which has created such low wage growth, the working classes look at the meagre pittance paid out in welfare with envy and right wing shock jocks stir that envy into a toxic resentment.