Poverty report highlights why Labour’s Neokindness isn’t enough
If only we could put in as much effort lifting children out of poverty as we do on middle class tax breaks for electric cars, a billion dollar bike lane and hate speech legislation.
New Zealand Politics
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MEDIAWATCH: Spin-off & Stuff as social engineering Government propaganda
The SpinOff is Wellington’s megaphone in Auckland and its ‘journalism’ consisted of framing a Labour Party Staffer for rape from someone who doctored evidence.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Restructuring primary health when you haven’t got a clue
Minister of Health Andrew Little’s White Paper on the Government’s ‘health reforms’, announced in April, included the unexpected intention to…
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GUEST BLOG: Katy Thomas – Jacinda, as one mother to another, your medicinal cannabis apathy is hurting our kids
Medicinal cannabis is a feminist issue. It’s an access issue. It’s a forced poverty issue. It’s a New Zealand issue. And it doesn’t have to be any of these things. Jacinda may not have built the glass ceiling but it’s time she stopped standing on our backs to prop it up.
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Holes in the Tundra: Why Burping Cows Are the Least of Our Worries.
THE GREENS would like to see New Zealand’s dairy herd diminished … substantially. Not only would this go a long…
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Why we need the ‘Kiwi food subsidy’ at a State owned ‘Kiwi Kai Super Market’
The brutal strength of the State is required to step in and break up such cartels when they bubble to the top and that’s exactly what the Commerce Commission must demand in its reports on the Supermarket duopoly in NZ.
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GUEST BLOG: My Son has been wrongfully convicted of rape – Part Three
I’ve always been about doing the right thing, never dragging someone down to pull us up. Telling the truth and…
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MEDIAWATCH: Andrea Vance is right – climate crisis will drown out Farmers
A storm is coming — and it’s one that will drown out Groundswell’s howl Mother nature has a delightful sense…
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MEDIAWATCH: Luke Malpass is right – vaccine roll out all that matters
Covid-19: Why the vaccine programme is now the only political game in town The winter recess has one week left…
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Paying lip service
Israel’s Gaza ceasefire violations continue to go unreported by the mainstream news media. From 6-21 July (inclusive) there have been…