First Otara, now Ashburton
The smiling assassin was back at her best yesterday with an incentivised plan to lure Samoan and Tongan families out of Auckland to places where those communities were supposedly growing and strong.
politics
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Davos and the Future of Work
Currently, the World Economic Forum meeting is taking place in the Swiss alps. This annual march to Davos brings together individuals across the public and private sectors where these privileged few get to discuss the issues that affect all of us.
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Inequality kills
The Oxfam report says that just 62 people own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population. This number has fallen from 388 five years ago. The wealth of those 62 people increased by 44% in those five years to US$1.76 trillion. The rich are certainly getting richer.
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New papers show TPPA will threaten climate change laws AND rob Maori sovereignty rights
Dear NZ – you have been conned and lied to about the TPPA from the beginning. The fight back starts now, this is a war as every bit real as any threat NZ has ever faced, except this time most of our own Political system is helping the enemy.
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Another stupid idea to attack State Tenants with
seeing as many of these state tenants are also beneficiaries, moving from Auckland where they can at least conform to National’s draconian work for welfare demands by holding down menial low paying no dignity jobs to just gain the few crumbs in welfare offered, is a nonsense.
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The death of TV3 News and why Rachel Smalley is wrong
From the people who killed off Campbell Live and brought you Rachel Glucina on Scout, comes the death of TV3 News.
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Mike Hosking’s racist rant against Waitangi Day
Here we go. The usual annual ritual of rich white privileged volk tapping into the widespread garden variety bigotry that Maori complain too much about Waitangi Day.
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What do global markets have to do before the NZ mainstream media focus?
What would it take for the holiday grad students staffing the news rooms to pay attention to the meltdown of global stock markets?
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Not by “Bread And Butter” Alone: Making the case for a more inclusive Left
The past successes of the Left owe almost everything to honouring the emancipatory impulse, and its failures are almost all attributable to the fear generated by emancipation’s disruptive effects.
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Let There be Blood: Why we shouldn’t ban Real Social Dynamics at the border.
We should usher Real Social Dynamics in with a warm welcoming pussy riot.