God Save The Royal Republic!
IS MITCH HARRIS RIGHT? Is New Zealand, for all intents and purposes, already a republic? Are all the monarchical appurtenances…
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Key fails to mastermind an illusionary legacy
As any advertising agency would tell you, the purpose of a brand is to sell an experience and create an illusion.
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Youth Employment, Training and Education – NZ First Private Members’ Bill Series Part 3
Darroch’s bill will create an alternative pathway – using the transformative power of the state to establish an alternative for these young people, which will be available for them before that time-critical point of arguable no return in their late teens.
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The simmering political dialogue, threats to Bennett and butter wouldn’t melt in Hooton’s mouth
There’s no place for political violence or threats, but when you rule over people rather than with them, a Government breeds contempt.
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Dear NZ – can we care about hungry children now they are middle class?
When it was poor brown kids, Muddle Nu Zilind screamed it was the parents fault. Now it’s the white middle classes, notice how quiet those voices have become.
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MUST READ: 2017 A Labour Odyssey
Last week the Labour party had a future of work conference. …what it did bring however was some politically brave ideas and a voyage into some unknown territory. Labours scrip writer went a little Sci-Fi and presented something seldom seen in politics. Imagination.
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Why there shouldn’t be any trading over Easter
I think 30 years of rampant neoliberal consumerism has created an ocean of wage slaves who buy sparkly things in sterile malls to numb the hollowness of a culture that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – UBI distraction from capitalist reality
Not until bosses give back their profits to the generations of workers they stole them from will any redistribution of income be more than a subsidy to the bosses.
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MUST READ: Jam tomorrow Jam yesterday. NEVER EVER JAM TODAY!
A basic income for all as a solution to poverty traps and income insecurity is a futuristic idea about a Utopia. I hope we get there one day too but let’s be real about it. Children are dying and lives are being stunted right now.
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How Brian Tamaki and Trump are the same
I’m no theologian, but I think speaking to money is about the weirdest, grossest, least spiritual thing anyone pretending to be a Bishop could ever admit to.