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Unions and NGOs announce Two-day hui on “What an Alternative & Progressive Trade Strategy Should Look Like”, Auckland, 19-20 October
ByThe Daily Blog 26 September 2018

The two-day hui at the Fale Pasifika at Auckland University from 19-20 October has a forward looking focus. The programme features ten impressive panels in conversation on the pressing issues of the future, from the international economy, geopolitics and livelihoods to Treaty-based relationships, sustainable worlds, health, knowledge and how to reinvigorate the local.

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Deconstructing Headlines · Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs

What MBIE’s hysterical costings on oil & gas didn’t include
ByMartyn Bradbury 25 September 2018

Big oil is twisting the arms off the Government and have clearly captured MBIE, we should not allow their profit margins to frighten us into being manipulated into denying climate change.

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Martyn Bradbury · Media Watch · Most Recent Blogs

Media outrage over Jacinda-Handley emails is petty
ByMartyn Bradbury 25 September 2018

For the love of Christ brothers and sisters, I wish as much moral outrage over Jacinda & Handley’s innocuous emails by the media and right wing punish could have occurred over Key’s mass surveillance lies, meth hysteria, dirty politics and colluding with the SIS to smear Phil Goff.

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Deconstructing Headlines · Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs

Ummmmm, about that low Business confidence and the looming economic meltdown
ByMartyn Bradbury 25 September 2018

I appreciate many Comrades want to see low business confidence as a sexist attack by the white cis male patriarchy against our beloved PM – and certainly some of that is true – buuuuuuuuuuut there is one hell of a global economic collapse looming…

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Chris Trotter · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Virginia Crawford’s Duty To Offend
ByThe Daily Blog 25 September 2018

THE PRINCIPAL OF Hamilton’s Fraser High School, Virginia Crawford, has been roundly criticised for warning her students about the strong correlation between truancy and failure in the world beyond high school. The push-back against Crawford’s address culminated in a walkout by around 100 of Fraser’s senior students on Monday 24 September 2018. But, what if she was telling the truth?

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John Minto · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Simon Bridges, Mike Sabin and the National government’s $120 million taxpayer rort.
ByJohn Minto 25 September 2018

Bridges colleague Mike Sabin, former policeman and former National MP, was at the heart of the moral panic over meth.

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Martyn Bradbury · Media Watch · Most Recent Blogs

Dear Duncan Garner – let’s be clear, you can stick Donald Trump’s war on drugs up your arse
ByMartyn Bradbury 25 September 2018

Duncan Garner was on the failing AM Show ranting like lunatic about Jacinda Ardern turning down Donald Trump’s invitation to join his new phase of the War on Drugs.

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Deconstructing Headlines · Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs

When the Government have answered if any children were removed from state tenants over the meth hysteria, could they please tell us if Mike Sabin’s Methcon had anything to do with setting flawed meth standards?
ByMartyn Bradbury 24 September 2018

Who exactly is the Meth Crook here Simon?

Read More When the Government have answered if any children were removed from state tenants over the meth hysteria, could they please tell us if Mike Sabin’s Methcon had anything to do with setting flawed meth standards?
Martyn Bradbury · Media Watch · Most Recent Blogs

TWITTER WATCH BURN OF 2018: Judith Collins blows get tough on crime dog whistle and it explodes gloriously in her face
ByMartyn Bradbury 24 September 2018

You would think after retweeting fake news that France was legalising underage sex that Judith Collins would work hard to be less of a malicious pus pit of scumbaggery on Twitter.

You would be wrong.

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Deconstructing Headlines · Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs

Why were Australian strawberries on sale in NZ after the needle sabotage?
ByMartyn Bradbury 24 September 2018

If I was jaded and deeply cynical, I’d suggest the bloody Australians have dumped as much of their stock in NZ despite knowing there was some threat of sabotage to the product.

Read More Why were Australian strawberries on sale in NZ after the needle sabotage?