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.
New Zealand Politics
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What on earth does the fishing industry have over Shane Jones?
Can someone please check on the Shane Jones family because it seems the fishing industry of NZ have them all held hostage.
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China stealing our water MUST STOP NOW and why it’s NZ First’s fault
Bottling expansion could see 9 billion litres of pristine Christchurch water sold overseas Cloud Ocean Water has bought land for a…
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Democratically Offensive? I don’t think so
Business is democratically offensive by nature and it’s a pathetic argument that workers must conform to an industry wide democracy before the aligned oppressive decision making minority can be brought to the negotiating table.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – National’s Neoliberal Tax Policy
Yay! This is really good news, because as we all know tax cuts and less government spending means greater inequality. The rich will get richer the poor will get poorer! Brilliant!