GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – RIP Joy Owens – she lived at 286
Anyone who infers that those from lower socio economic groups can’t achieve incredible things and lead interesting rich lives doesn’t have a “286” mindset.
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Higher Education – a Privilege of the Rich and the Young?
Tertiary education becomes less accessible each year, with fee increases, reduced student allowance availability, increases in loan repayments, lowering of the income threshold for repayments and unrealistic means testing.
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Key’s delusional advice for the Homeless as infantile as his $3billion tax bribe
When the Right scream that the Left are envious of the rich and Labour is just bribing voters – point out the outrageous hypocrisy of National blowing another $3Billion on tax cuts while the poorest amongst us go hungry, cold and sick.
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Unbelievably racist Whaleoil cartoon
In the week where far right hate speech merchant Cameron Slater was outed as a hypocritical recidivist criminal, his hard right hate speech blog Whaleoil was publishing racist cartoons that make Al Nisbet’s infamous bigotry look reasonable.
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Why Labour need to radically adapt or face electoral annihilation in 2017
Labour need 35% to have a chance of changing the Government in 2017, a two tick urban campaign is the only viable way towards 35%.
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Guest Blog: A Basic Look at Basic Income
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) debate is an issue which is very close to my heart: It is quite literally the reason I went to university (I wanted to research it to see if it was really viable) and is also one of the main reasons I got into politics.
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Key’s Parliamentary Tantrum
We need the Prime Minister to be a leader, not a spoilt man-child.
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The last suffocation of journalism – the media mega merger
This is a failure of the free market the same way the free market has failed housing in Auckland.
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Key slags Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Mojo Mathers in childish tantrum to deflect Panama Papers
At best his response yesterday was as sophisticated as ‘I know you are, you said you are, but what am I’?
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Did Police give Slater ‘mates rates’?
If explaining is losing, Slater is chewing off both sides of his mouth today as he publishes 10 000 word blogs trying to explain why he broke the law.