Dear Students of Auckland University – here is how you get your libraries (and power) back
If students want to keep their libraries and reject the hollowness of neoliberal culture myths, they must fight to bring back Universal Student Membership.
New Zealand Politics
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It’s fair to compare Heather du Plessis-Allan to Ann Coulter
It’s fair to compare Jacinda to Trump in that they are part of the same species, breath oxygen and both have two legs and two arms.
The similarities end there.
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Poisoned spies, diplomatic mocking and hate speech: Tova O’Brien doesn’t like Jacinda much does she?
Tova is of course free to take the lines of inquiry she wants, she is the Political Editor of a main News Network, it is utterly her prerogative, but the results seem to be cheap headline gotcha’s rather than meaningful comment.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Bees, guns and cults: recent happenings in education
I see the point of pupils knowing how to react if something happens. In most cases, actually, the ‘drop, cover, hold’ rules of earthquake reaction is the best response. What I don’t see is why a security agency should be employed, unless schools in New Zealand are thinking that they are about to get targeted by a mad gunmen.
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Western Economic and Military Groupthink on Parade This Week
So while leaders from European superpowers, Five Eyes nations and the Commonwealth parade, in self-congratulatory back slapping and hand shaking in front of the cameras, they engage in lock step and group think, marching as one over firing missiles at Syria that are actually aimed at Russia, in a real battle for supremacy of the ‘There is No Alternative’ approach to economic management, monetary policy, growth, trade and the neo-liberal agenda.
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The three things we learnt this week
Good week for the Left, good week for NZ.
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National attack Labour for launching 75 inquiries and end up shooting themselves in the foot
I haven’t seen self mutilation this bad since Passion of the Christ.
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Look at this picture – the National Party said this could never happen
Remember that above image when the National Party insist things can’t be done.
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Another report that clearly states how damaging farming is for our environment has been released, is it time to end big Dairy in NZ?
Economically it makes no sense to continue investing in big Dairy when synthetic milk and meat are on the horizon.
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EQC blowout, Middlemoore Hospital rot & another National Party housing project collapse
How can the National Party destroy the country over 9 years, get exposed after they leave power and yet still have 44% of NZ supporting them?