Arts funding under National
Last month Creative NZ warned it may have to cut arts funding because of a drop in Lotto sales which begs the question, should our culture be tied to gambling?
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GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – Moko Rangitoheriri
The anger has triggered finger pointing. The finger pointing has snowballed action. The action has forced reviews. So what will change? Will Moko be added to the ever increasing list of child abuse statistics, tut-tutted over, paper-pushed around in death as terribly as he was physically pushed around in life?
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Hear no poverty, see no poverty, speak no poverty: We have lost what it means to be a New Zealander
For some like the Key family, life is one long party. DJing, modelling, opening pop culture art events in Paris, Hawaiian mansions, foreign trusts, tax havens, property portfolios, Instagram followers and tax free capital gains.
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The housing crisis is a class war
This is social policy spawned by spite and cruelty. We are actively punishing those whose plight and poverty offends our egalitarian pretensions. We are a country with all the maturity of a day old can of coke, so caught up in the false illusion of speculative property wealth, National voters have become wilfully ignorant to the desperation of their fellow citizens.
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The Space To Make Dreams Come True: Why Labour’s Latest Move On Housing Could Be A Ground-Breaker
This is a major policy announcement from Labour’s housing spokesperson. By embracing the virtues of expansion over intensification, the party has repositioned itself as a defender of Auckland’s characteristic urban sprawl – and everything that goes with it.
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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.