GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Pettiness and Pathetic Behaviour at Parliament this week
National played petty politics this week at what was meant to be the first meeting of the year of Parliament’s powerful Finance and Expenditure Select Committee.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Congratulations to Mike King on becoming New Zealander of the Year.
Great to see his work in mental health ,especially with young people, being recognised.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The greed of NZ Banks
The latest quarterly KPMG survey of the banking and finance sector shows collective profits for the 20 registered banks hit a record last year, rising 11 percent to $5.77 billion from $5.19bn in 2017.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – The Emperor’s New Clothes
New Zealand’s exports of all goods and services to China were worth $16.6 billion for the year ended September 2018.
A year before then this was only $14.0 Billion.
Check that out – in one year of working with Winston Peters, Jacinda Ardern, David Parker and others – New Zealand exports to China have grown by a massive $2.6 Billion.
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GUEST BLOG: Matthew Blomfield – High Court lifts suppression on strike out of Whale Oil defamation defence
I am determined to see this case through to its conclusion. I believe, in light of this judgment, it is now clear that there can only be one conclusion; Cameron Slater will be held accountable for his actions.
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Annie Newman – Living Wage
At the panel on sustainable work, at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Annie Newman pressed the case for the living wage as a central principle for New Zealand’s future trade policy.
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Sean Plunket’s working group: Jordan Peterson, BBQ mansplaining, NZ Cricket
BBQ mansplaining etiquette vs Kiwibuild failure,
Jordan Peterson vs Golriz Ghahraman
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GUEST BLOG: Syd Keepa – This is what colonisation in 2019 looks like
There’s a dispute going on in the heart of Auckland over some of New Zealand’s oldest and most precious archaeological land.
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It’s not rocket science as to why Jordan Peterson is popular
Women for the first time in our species history are telling men via social media in no uncertain terms their anger at harassment and no one likes to hear how hated they are as a group.
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Political Sadism, Or Moral Inertia? Explaining David Clark
David Clark does not appear to have a metric for moral force. The calculation of our health system’s ethical obligations seems beyond him. How, when all is said and done, does one measure a family’s sorrow, or calculate a young doctor’s dedication?
What is the market-price of kindness?