The Auckland Mayoralty ‘Anti-Debate’ live streamed 7pm Monday 26th
Join candidates Tricia Cheel, Chloe Swarbrick, Adam Holland, Mario Alupis and Penny Bright plus others to hear their vision for Auckland.
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What many opponents of Trump seem to be horribly missing in the latest opinion polls from America
At this stage, it doesn’t even matter if Hillary wins, Trump has won. The hate he has injected into the body politic is unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times and the long term carcinogenic impacts of that type of political cancer are difficult to predict.
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Let’s be honest about what the Corrections Blunder is really about shall we?
This isn’t a ‘blunder’ – it’s the truth about a civil service that has become uncivil. About public services that are supposed to be the bastions of egalitarianism essential to a progressive liberal democracy mutating into the cruelest of torture devices used by the State to keep the poor too terrified to fight back.
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GUEST BLOG: Karen Gregory-Hunt – Government Subsidies
The truth is, while beneficiaries have been demonised and punished through a cruel regime of blame and penalties, the country’s most voracious beneficiaries are employers and landlords – who also receive tax breaks for their rental properties.
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Homelessness – What can the Mayor do?
Every Mayor wants to do something they will be remembered for. Could Auckland’s new one become famous for ending chronic homelessness?
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Government by slogan and spin
Last night Kevin Hague in his final speech to Parliament talked about all the worthy issues avoided by National and the frustrations experienced from their partisan political approach. I agree with the sentiment and I think it’s clear after 8 years we can say they’ve been a government that makes only a token response to the tough questions. We have a bare minimum government more focused on the spin than substance.
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CHRISTCHURCH PRESS MAYORAL DEBATE 20TH SEPTEMBER 2016 CARDBOARD CATHEDRAL
I’m John Minto and I’m standing as the Keep Our Assets Canterbury candidate for the Christchurch mayoralty.
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Immigration and Auckland Housing – why Unitary Plan is flawed and bubble burst prediction
A prediction. On the basis of the sluggish Auckland rental market, the end of the Auckland property bubble could be sooner rather than later. (I’m picking October 2017, a month or two after the 2017 general election.) The ‘correction’ will come when enough people who have bought in Auckland for capital gain realise that they will have to sell soon, or risk the consequences.
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Government’s failed response to abuse of migrants (Part 4 of 4)
Unions can expose the hypocrisy of employers demanding the right to import labour while paying a pittance to their staff. But ultimately, the only effective way to turn the situation around is to reunionise the sectors of the workforce that have lost union protection and force the bosses to pay.
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Gifting something that isn’t yours to gift: What Kermadec’s fiasco says about us
It’s always funny how it’s supposed to be Maori who just roll over and have their private property taken off them for the benefit of the public