Caught up in safety nets – Lifewise
There are still nearly 18,000 people in Auckland on the verge of homelessness.
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Neoliberalism – Coming & Going
On Sunday’s Q+A (17/7/16) Corin Dann interviewed Stephen Jennings, the former Treasury official and New Zealand investment banker who took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to make himself a billionaire.
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Rust never sleeps and the Business Roundtable always wants more unearned wealth from the rest of us
It was no surprise to see the New Zealand Initiative (the old Business Roundtable rebranded) provide a platform for a Rogernomics-era free-marketeer, Stephen Jennings, to tell us we needed more market-led reforms – especially in education.
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How the Free Market deals with homelessness and and the Housing Crisis in Auckland
Our housing crisis is a market failure because it’s been left up to the free market. National are in utter denial because they have built their Government on selling off their social obligations to others.
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Economic Threats From China Expose Lie Of Free Trade
In reaction and response to news that the New Zealand Government has gotten a bit uneasy about decidedly sub-standard Chinese steel being put into our own domestic infrastructure projects (and accompanied by fraudulent safety standard certification, no less), the PRC is apparently considering raising punitive “reprisal tariffs” on Kiwi primary produce exports in order to force our government to move to protect Chinese interests rather than our own.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – More prison suicides & celebrating 60th Birthday inside
I note in recent weeks Prison Directors in Christchurch and Invercargill have acknowledged individual suicides in their prisons after family pressure.
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Long live democracy, despite its failings
Democracy continues to contain its own contradictions around the world. In spite of the ‘Democratic Peace Theory’, it’s questionable whether democracies fight less with each other, or others generally, or whether they just export their conflicts more elsewhere.
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Political Realignment in the Far Northwest?
The Brexit referendum means many things, only one of which is a requirement for Grand Bretagne (Big Britain; as distinct from Bretagne, Brittany) to leave the European Union. Most important, the outcome was the political equivalent of a magnitude five earthquake. It may have forestalled the magnitude eight earthquake that was otherwise coming to a politically comatose Europe.
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His name is John Minto and he has my vote
Now is the time for Christchurch to elect a leader with courage and convictions to stand up for the people, an intelligent and energetic person with an unwavering belief in justice and democracy.
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: UMR SECRET POLL – National 41% Labour/Greens 45%
The latest UMR internal Polling has shown a massive drop in support for Key.