And finally the remaining news that went under the radar were your usual suspects, the brutal continuing occupation of Palestine (that no one can say anything about unless they want to be labelled anti-semitic) and the true magnitude of what climate change catastrophe will really do.
The fourth big news story that was missed in 2018 was finding out that a Chinese businessman attempted to buy two MPs on the National Party list.
National’s hypocrisy as is galling as their opportunism.
IN MY LAST POST I wrote about letting yesterday’s news languish, in the headlong pursuit of new news (however inane). To avoid that abyss, I shall now reflect on this Year’s news.
Some of the workers in Miro Unit grow vegetables in the prison garden for the local Womens Refuge .
However , the Refuge office has closed for the holidays and the lettuces are going to seed .
Ngati Whatua leader Parata Hawke makes the links between those struggling against a racist capitalist system.
Walking Te Araroa – from Cape Reinga to Bluff – carrying this important message on my T-shirt.
‘The message from the hui was very clear: we need to generate real alternatives that confront climate change and disruption, while supporting sustainable local businesses and jobs that pay a living wage, in a nation founded on te Tiriti o Waitangi.’
When we have so many Kiwis struggling to make ends meet on low wages and benefits, the idea of agreeing to politicians automatically gaining a 3% pay rise was wrong.
Yesterday the JusTrade.nz, site was launched. It builds on a two-day hui held in late October, convened by Auckland Law Professor Jane Kelsey, which debated what an alternative 21st Century progressive trade strategy for our counrty could look like.