GUEST BLOG: Kieran Robert Kelly – The 2016 US Presidential Election Will Not Take Place
From the beginning, we knew that this election would never happen. An election of representatives for any office involves the…
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Millennials, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers
As older generations struggle to deal with the untarnished manner in which younger generations can use social media to tell them how much they hate them, larger fracture lines are starting to emerge between Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials.
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Megamansion development in Devonport vs 1 million NZers locked out of homeownership
There have been remarkable juxtapositions last week in NZ that seem to show the two worlds we have split into, one where the reality of life is grim and one where privilege blinds us to that grim reality.
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What stops Key’s Fourth Term?
National voters know the system they are profiting from is hurting their fellow citizens, they just don’t care. This is what 30 years of neoliberalism has produced. There’s a dark streak of anti-intellectualism in NZ, a negative egalitarianism, that embraces Keys nonchalant ignorance with the passion of a junkie to their dealer.
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You won’t believe what Talley’s are doing to their workers now
…Talley’s claims this over the top reaction was because they are so focused on safety which is hilarious when you consider they had no problem sending workers into fishing ships to get poisoned or their lax attitude towards decapitation.
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From Good Guys To Fall Guys: The Spinoff and Generation Zero fail to endorse Mike Lee
UP UNTIL TUESDAY of last week I’d always thought of The Spinoff and Generation Zero as the good guys. A wee bit hipsterish perhaps, in the case of the former; a little hard to distinguish from the Green Party in the latter – but these were minor quibbles. Overall, both organisations came across as fresh, creative, and definitely on the side of the progressive angels.
Not anymore.
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Collusion, corruption, contradictions and cover ups in fishing industry, stink.
Those of us interested in the marine environment either as fishers or as conservationists, have known for a long time that in general, current commercial fishing practices stink.
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That time in the High Court when I argued how much I loathed Cameron Slater
It was a pretty surreal moment in the High Court yesterday arguing with a High Court Lawyer how much I loathed Cameron Slater…
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Prisoner compo vs skinny person compo highlights a hollow society
If you want someone to blame, look at the underfunded and burnt out public services who’ve become callous in their obligations to those in their care. If prisoner rights were at the forefront of Corrections priorities, the investigation to ensure they were being released at the right time would have occurred and demanded change.
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Hamilton refugee family story highlights privatisation of state housing
The Aung family have beaten the odds.
As a refugee family from Myanmar, they have worked hard over the last four years to build a settled future for their three daughters in Hamilton.