Waitangi Day is our national day to pause and check whether the Government of NZ, the Crown if you will, are living up to their obligations to all those who are party to the Treaty – Maori, Pakeha and all those who call New Zealand home.
So far, Bill English’s secret weapon, the People’s Front of Judea, has been able to cause more political damage than Malcolm Turnbull calling Trump collect.
The enemy of the working class are the National Party, the enemy of the National Party are the Labour Party and the enemy of the Labour Party is the Labour Party.
What Jackson brought to the Maori Party was that huge urban working class Maori voting bloc, but the lack of anything real on offer by Te Ururoa Flavell to Jackson gave Labour an opportunity that they have cleverly seized upon.
If we want to criticise Te Tii Marae, that’s fine, but let’s equally be as critical of those politicians who have sat on their hands and provided no leadership whatsoever.
The governments and corporate lobbies that champion these deals are in a state of denial and desperately trying to rescue their bankrupt model. This year we begin work with others internationally to set a new agenda for international economic agreements that really work for people as part of a new economic paradigm.
It’s time the rest of the New Zealand voting public understood just how harsh the neoliberal welfare state is.
Corrections NZ are hiding a surge in prison suicides – The Daily Blog’s Prisoner Rights Blogger and current inmate Arthur Taylor critiques the cover up.
To begin to realise Bill English’s dream the first step must be to restore the value of tax credits for low wage families and give all low income children the benefit of the full Working for Families package
The biggest winners of the half a billion National and Labour want to throw at cops will be the Private Prison Industry who will be licking their lips in anticipation at the thousands more destined for their cells.