Saudi Sheep Deal Bribe ruled kinda legal by whitewashing of the lambs report
We’ve just trusted Uncle Muzza with $11million to try and cut a dodgy deal for reasons that are mercenary and without any actual ethics. Yay!
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Institutional care – was the baby thrown out with the bathwater?
Twenty years ago the Clark Government shepherded through the closure of the country’s grim old standalone mental health institutions – Tokanui, Lake Alice and Cherry Farm are names that come to mind.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – New Zealands Revolution is Coming
The diverse political experiments can make New Zealand seem uninspiring in contrast. Could we see a revolutionary shake up in sleepy New Zealand? If we did, what would it look like?
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Forgotten Lessons: Has Labour Just Chosen To Lose Hutt South?
SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE THE LEFT is incapable of learning anything. Why leftists forget every lesson History teaches them – even those of the recent past – I simply do not know. Mistakes, it seems, are for repeating – endlessly.
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Labour’s Mt Roskill by-election promise recasts Auckland and Labour relationship
Recasting Labour as an urban party and winning Auckland with a two tick campaign is Labour’s best chance to get 35%.
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GUEST BLOG: Lizzie Cook – Answer to ‘Mr’ Mono-Lingual White ‘Man’, Member of the White New Zealand Clan
I wish to address an ongoing attitude from those who feel a sense of righteousness about their white identity.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Responding to DimPost on behalf of Marxists
Danylmc writing in the Dimpost blog decides after a quick skimming of Marxism that it never was scientific and moreover is counter-revolutionary because it calls for “smashing capitalism” rather than evolving through many iterations into a new, better society…or not.
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GUEST BLOG: Kelvin Smythe – Hekia Parata: her collapse – her beginning and end
If I despise any individuals in education today, then it is those individuals, those privileged to be academics (not to downplay their efforts to get there), siding with the powerful against those who should be able to, desperately need to be able to, trust in the integrity of academics.
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Phil Twyford brings a knife to a gun fight with Paul Henry over By-election
Maybe Phil was expecting a Paul Henry who was slightly humbled by Lizzie Marvel’s principled stance to boycott the show in the wake of his gross description of women’s breasts to a journalist.
Phil was wrong.
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If KiwiBank won’t do the right thing by Helen Kelly – then we should! Let’s start the ‘Real Kiwi of the Year’
If KiwiBank aren’t going to budge on their rule to disqualify Helen Kelly because she had the temerity to die before the award, then we should walk away and start the ‘Real Kiwi of the Year’ Award.