Paula Bennett’s 3000 ghost beds for the homeless
…so it’s 3000 existing beds. How spiteful to sell it as a solution while desperate families huddle in cars.
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We shouldn’t begrudge lenient sentences against 4 pakeha teens
We should not be outraged that 4 pakeha teenagers were given a lenient sentence, we should be outraged that leniency isn’t handed out to every teenager.
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – Jose Ramo-Horta cheerleader for Indonesia’s rule in West Papua
It would be hard to overstate the importance of the role that Jose Ramos Horta played during the long dark years when Timor Leste was occupied by Indonesia. As ‘foreign minister’ in exile he developed quite extraordinary advocacy and diplomatic skills that other liberation movements could only envy.
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Why media are so surprised by housing crisis poverty
National have no interest in solving the housing crisis because they need the speculative bubble to generate fake growth so our GDP numbers don’t dip. Escalating homelessness, poverty, inequality and over crowding is all just collateral damage to keep the speculators happy and voting National.
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Why WINZ is far worse than just their Motel debt slavery
We have a broken welfare system that is doing more harm than good to the very people it’s supposed to care for. The PM claiming WINZ can help the homeless exemplifies the mix of delusion, neoliberal mythology and wilful ignorance that drives all National Party social policy.
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NZ’s green brand is 100% pure hypocrisy and science continues to be gagged
Our 100% pure brand is a sad sick joke.
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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.