Waatea 5th Estate – Will Government’s $1billion loan solve Housing crisis?
Joining us tonight to discuss the Government’s $1billion dollar solution to housing and whether it will do anything for the homeless and most vulnerable…
politics
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If you come after this Boomer’s Vote, Matt, you’d better be armed
MATT HEATH’S SATIRICAL THRUST at the over-65s in Monday’s NZ Herald has caused considerable angst. Depriving the elderly of the right to vote is one of those suggestions that stops people in their tracks. Not so much because it’s a good idea (which it obviously isn’t) but because somebody’s had the bare-faced cheek to put such a subversive thought into words.
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Why on earth is the Government profiting from fast food misery?
Fast food has an enormous amount of power in our economy and it politically inoculates itself by having far right hate speech bloggers post attacks on their health campaigns.
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It’s MANA that the elites fear turning populist anger against them
Bryce Edwards covers off the anger that is simmering in the electorate and the fear by elites of where that anger will erupt, but I think he misses a very important part of the spectrum which is open to radicalism.
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Private schools provide a socially-cleansed environment for the children of cabinet ministers
We should fund private schools ONLY when they enrol students on the same basis as public schools and abandon their fees.
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A response to Matt Heath – Democratic Participation Is Not A Grey Area
To insist that our elderly citizens should be steadfastly deprived of their right to vote purely because of some ineluctable combination of a referendum result on the literal other side of the world and spiraling youth apathy about politics is heinous.
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Why do we need security at domestic airports anyway?
It’s outrageous that the Government have threatened a lockout to Airport security. It’s the sort of thing last tried in the 50s and brought massive social turmoil to NZ
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Wake up sleepy hobbits – John Key has no interest in popping his bubble
It’s time for Labour and the Greens to start breaking some eggs if they want their omelette.
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GUEST BLOG: Alan Johnson – $1 billion infrastructure fund merely subsidises speculators
John Key’s announcement of his Government’s $1 billion infrastructure investment fund is a brilliant political gesture but as with everything else this Government has done with housing it won’t provide any affordable housing.
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Key’s $1 billion is not a game changer, says CPAG
The $1 billion promised by the Prime Minister to pay for local council housing infrastructure seems to show significant recognition…