We need a radical populist not a reactive populist
With all the focus on populism, it seems to have escaped many of the political punditry in NZ that we already have a populist Prime Minister.
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BLOGWATCH: Duncan Greive’s weird scorn of Viceland makes Spinoff bitter
Duncan Greive’s weird scorn of Viceland in the NZ Herald seems less Opinion piece and more Advertorial.
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GUEST BLOG: Lizzie Cook – Addressing a failure by the Government to adequately support Kura Kaupapa Māori
My take on the matter is that it is racism, Institutional Racism that does not like the independent Māori doing well and being successful. Pākahā dominated institutions still want to apply Pākehā rules and tell Māori what to do and how to do it.
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Economic Democracy
Universal Basic Income is neither an idea of the political left nor of the political right. The principles of liberté and égalité are not principles of partisan politics.
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MUST READ: Why is Labour walking into a trap?
In New Zealand, however, we are taxed to death and then when we need help we get denied our entitlements by a brutal system that seems dedicated to stopping people gaining access to help when they or other members in their family have an accident or are unemployed, sick, or are born or become disabled.
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GUEST BLOG: John Stroh – says it all…
I hope one of the more experienced TDB Bloggers picks this up and uses it to light some fires elsewhere in the media. It would seem a wasted opportunity to let this study go unnoticed.
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GUEST BLOG: Martin and Lois Griffiths – HEBRON
The Israeli journalist Gideon Levy warns, “If you want to know what callousness is, if you want to know what racism is, if you want to know what evil is, if you want to know what injustice is and if you want to know what malice looks like, Hebron …is the best place on earth to find out.”
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March on Parmar Saturday for Indian Students
First students from India were compared to faulty fridges from China by National list MP Kanwaljeet Bakshi and now National list MP Parmjeet Parmar is calling them “criminals”.
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Parmar has called the Indian students “Criminals”
She serves the wealthy and the Government and not the people in need. How many houses can one person own in the midst of a housing crisis, with people sleeping in garages and cars?
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The Journalism, Media & Democracy 2016 Media Ownership Report
The live stream of the Journalism, Media & Democracy 2016 Media Ownership Report yielded an incredible insight to how precarious the current state of journalism really is.