The myth about ‘market fundamentals’
What we have isn’t a fully functioning market secure with all the fundamentals, we have a waiting time bomb.
New Zealand Politics
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So what the Unemployment rate really says is we are all working harder and longer for less
There is little to cheer in these stats. We have a part time work force with a Precariat class who are at the whims of a brutal market while the wealthy plump up the medium wage.
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Labour’s first post-Waitangi challenge: will it allow the Waitangi Tribunal to complete the TPPA inquiry?
There were lots of positives at Waitangi this week. There was also a lot of gloss, driven by hope (and perhaps primed by Shane Jones hospitality). Labour promised that it will be accountable to Maori. That promise faces a major test next week, as the Crown responds in the Waitangi Tribunal’s inquiry on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
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On Waitangi Day: Reflections from one Rangatahi Immigrant
I’ll be the first to openly admit that I could have prioritised my own education on te ao Māori far more than I have, and that I am guilty in that regard. I take responsibility for that and I’m not proud of it. But I wish our systems of education, which must also extend beyond formal institutes of learning, might come to the table with this understanding too
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Could Jacinda, Bill, Winston, James, Andrew, Amy & Chris please explain why the hell the NZ Police are using a human rights abuser for mass surveillance?
…now progressive politics has a majority on the Intelligence and Security Committee, can we have 5 answers to the 5 most pressing questions?
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Waitangi Investigation: Steve Edwards – Harnessing the Herd to Hide a Historical Heist: The Crown’s breach of the Crimes Act
The New Zealand Crown’s ongoing failure to acknowledge that the British Crown did not gain sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840 is a breach of the Crimes Act.
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Can Sovereignty Be Shared?
Jacinda’s intentions and those of her Maori caucus colleagues are unquestionably benign. But in political circumstances as fraught as these, good intentions are seldom enough. If, as the revisionist historians insist, Maori sovereignty was never ceded to the Crown, then the descendants of the Waitangi signatories’ determination to reclaim it; to exercise it; is entirely reasonable.
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100 days and the first broken promise
In their first 100 days Labour has offered us “not-National” policies but little else – unless a Woman’s Weekly Prime Minister is considered in the common good.
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Why Steven Joyce is about to be shot in the face
Joyce is the canary in the coal mine for any Leadership challenge.
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Why charter schools have to go – Dr Liz Gordon
The National Party in Government, especially during the neo-liberal era, has had a habit of foisting stupid education policies onto the rest of us, which are intended to act as the ‘thin edge of the wedge’ towards privatisation