Why Labour need to lose the Maori electorates if a progressive Government is to have a chance
The Maori electorates have the ability to create a genuinely progressive Government in 2017.
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Dairy farm animal abuse part of the economic model
Dairy industry representatives, academics and the Minister for Primary Industries were full of denials this week as they all sought to explain, excuse, diminish or justify animal cruelty on dairy farms, exposed again by FarmWatch.
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Mangere Budgetary Services quitting new Government spying scam
The poor flee Government services because they fear the inevitable retribution, forcing social services to spy on behalf of the Government will kill those services trust off altogether and give the Government even more excuses to cut budgets.
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Board Games: Can Phil Goff really make Auckland Transport “accountable”?
PHIL GOFF has declined to reappoint Councillors Mike Lee and Christine Fletcher to Auckland Transport’s (AT) Board of Directors. Auckland’s new mayor is unconvinced that councillor directors are the solution to the city’s Council Controlled Organisations’ (CCOs) alleged unaccountability.
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Calling time on Trojan horse treaties
If you’re concerned about the TPPA, there is even worse to come. TiSA is a new trade deal that would leave citizens powerless to set the rules about what big multinational corporations can do in our communities and workplaces.
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City of Peace to Host War Games
The naval training exercises are nothing more than a chance for the boys to show each other their toys. There is an inherent dishonesty and double standard when we can, as a nation, simultaneously celebrate war and bemoan the death and suffering that result from it.
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Will Black Friday haunt Wall St in 2016?
Apple collapsing almost 2.5% in extended trading post their uninspiring results at a time when the stock market is looking to burst is grim on the eve of Black Friday.
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GUEST BLOG: Dr David Small – NZ Spy Agencies – Holding Them To Account 3 part Special – Part 3
The NZ Intelligence and Security Bill is the culmination of twenty years of increases in the powers of NZ’s spy agencies. It gives them everything they could hope for. The Bill radically broadens the focus of the SIS and the GCSB so they can run operations on almost anything. It allows them to do literally anything to advance on operation or to cover it up. It allows them to co-opt anybody else into an operation. And it grants immunity from prosecution to everyone involved.
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Better People Make Better All Blacks
For Coach Graham Henry, who during his tenure began to rebuild the world’s most successful sporting team from the inside out, the emphasis was on individual character and personal leadership. That is, ‘Better People Make Better All Blacks’.
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GUEST BLOG: Doug Renwick – A Discourse on Corporate Propaganda Part 3: The Mass Media on welfare and crime
When it comes to disciplining the general population there aren’t too many different deceptions you can use to do it.