The madness of the militarisation of WINZ & Jamie Mako
Nothing seems to sum up the counter productive nature of our neoliberal welfare system quite as powerfully as the madness of this case…
New Zealand Politics
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Should NZ & Canada forge a new leadership for the West?
Is it time for Jacinda and Trudeau to step up?
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Freezing MP salaries, 1800 new cops and new major infrastructure body – new Government take control of narrative
The lack of traction over the time Jacinda has been away has been overcome within weeks of her being back. She is a phenomenon and if National are serious about beating her, they best not underestimate her ability to pacify their voting block while appealing to her own.
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This Is Your Green Captain: We Are Going Down.
GREEN POLITICS has never been about business-as-usual. Green politics has always been about the salvation of the planet and the reclamation of the human soul from the talons of the Capitalist death-machine. To reduce Green politics to mere environmentalism is to betray a complete misunderstanding of its raison d’être.
Sadly and predictably, however, that is exactly what the majority of New Zealand’s political commentators are doing. They are heaping their praise upon the Green caucus for taking the party back-to-basics with wonderful new policies about re-cycling car tyres and paying ten bucks to whoever before dumping your rubbish.
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Clash of Civilities – review of Dr Cornell West & Douglas Murray
On Friday evening August 17 at Auckland`s Aotea Centre Cornell West and Douglas Murray faced off.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Double Bunking Prison Rapes, my submission on prison narks and punishment for watching Lisa Owen
Corrections Dept negligence and the double bunking policy caused this by giving rapist & Black Power member William Katipa his opportunities . No Corrections officer has been held accountable & 50 potential further victims are not being individually notified .
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Imagine if the rich listers paid the same tax rates as beneficiaries…
The National Business Review published its annual celebration of unearned wealth last week with the breathlessly-reported news that this bunch of specialised parasites increased their wealth from a net of $79.9 billion in 2017 to $100.8 billion this year.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Broken Society
A few years ago I wrote an article about a ride on the 486 bus from Symonds Street to Prestons Road (you know, in Otara), and the changing population that inhabited the bus as it moved south. I still remember that ride.
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It’s the media’s fault for covering the reclaiming of the C word fiasco?
…note it’s not the Green’s fault for not having a media plan, no strategic forethought or plan of what to do when the media inevitably covered it.
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Wellington Paranormal: Sage Incompetence & Fitzsimons Naivety – Green Party Conference descends into omnishambles
Sweet Jesus, no wonder the Greens held their Party Conference in bloody Palmerston North, they would want this omnishambles that is erupting to be as far away from the media as humanly possible.