This is NZ poverty in 2017
Another example of how desperate the housing crisis has become and how quickly situations can escalate to homelessness for families.
This is a makeshift tent where a couple and their 2 children are living in my electorate.
New Zealand Politics
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Naked Muslim hatred in Huntly needs compassion as a response
The mere sight of the headscarf that identified them as Muslim was enough for this torrent of rage and fury to erupt at innocent people just going about their day. This wasn’t the deep South, this wasn’t the hinterlands of nowhere, it’s bloody Huntly, barely an hour outside of Auckland, our largest metropolitan and cosmopolitan city.
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Greg O’Connor becomes Labour’s Ohariu Candidate – Little’s Broadchurch just got Bigger
This is how you win elections. The working class, the poor and migrant communities who bear the brunt of societal crime want to have their genuine fears addressed and a well known cop like O’Connor gives them the sense that their fears are being represented.
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Cough-cough-hashtag-reasons-Key-jumped-cough-cough
The numerous allegations swirling over why Key really stood down and when they will finally come to light are questions everyone wants answered.
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If our anti-Gay Rights Prime Minister Bill English attends Big Gay Out today will the Community allow themselves to be used?
The question is how much the LGBTQ community are prepared to be used by a Prime Minister who has built his political career on demonising them and denying them basic human rights. He voted against same sex marriage, civil unions, prostitution reform and attempted to force NZ only to accept a definition of heterosexual marriage. Add in the hate he has for women attempting to gain safe and legal abortion and Bill English is a hard right Christian with all the compassion of Donald Trump on a bad hair day.
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Should we rename ‘Labour Youth’ the ‘Purifiers’
…the middle class Labour Youth (The ‘Purifiers’), the middle class Wellington Union Comms cliques and the Identitarians won’t like it, but working class men and urban Maori who have felt alienated by these types see Little staring that faction down and pushing Willie Jacksons candidacy as a new welcome mat into the Party.
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Breaking Point
Though they could not admit it in as many words, their loud and very public rebellion against the recruitment of Willie Jackson made it crystal clear that if the choice was between winning the election, or compromising their social liberal ideology, then they were willing to give up winning the election.
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Your Voice Election 2017 – ‘Fed up with the System’ experience of WINZ
As part of our election coverage of shaming the neoliberal welfare state who treat the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us with contempt, here is Fed-up-with-the-system’s experience of WINZ
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Freedom of Expression and Its Discontents
The liberal tradition of responding to the expression of ideas with which you disagree with a reasoned, evidence-based argument in rebuttal no longer seems to fall within either the ideological of intellectual repertoire of today’s left-wingers.