Minto for Mayor – Another win on the Campaign Trail
Christchurch Mayoral candidate John Minto is delighted at the announcement by incumbent mayor Lianne Dalziel that the Council’s fibre broadband…
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EXCLUSIVE: Corruption in Christchurch – Do you have a question for Gerry Brownlee?
Last week Greater Christchurch Regeneration Minister Gerry Brownlee sent me a letter in response to a blog I wrote about four of his wealthy constituents getting $595,000 each for land remediation after the September 2010 earthquake when they would have been entitled to only $20,000 each from EQC.
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Last Waatea 5th Estate for 2016 tonight – political wrap of 2016 + 2017 predictions
Willie and I came up with this project because we couldn’t believe the diabolical level of debate from Seven Sharp and Story. In our 7 months we have done more public interest broadcasting than Story and Seven Sharp combined.
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Make Israel pay!
For Israel, the payment of small amounts in reparation is not out of the question if it helps to serve Zionism’s geo-political objectives. Israel is to pay Ankara US$20m in reparations in return for Turkey dropping legal action over the war crime committed by Israel when its marines stormed a Turkish ship on the high seas in May 2010.
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Embedded At The New Zealand First Convention Part Two: Perception, Deception, Convention.
As I covered in yesterday’s part one of my NZ First Convention writeup, ours is a party often bedeviled by…
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Sour Fruit: Why I’m not pinning my hopes on ESRA
IS IT TOO SOON to pronounce judgement upon ESRA? Economic & Social Research Aotearoa has only just been launched. So, surely, we should give it a little time to show us what it can do? Except that we already know what ESRA will do, because we already know what ESRA is.
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Dirty tricks against Corbyn not working
Corbyn’s opponents have tried every trick in the book to dent the Labour leader’s support.
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Last Waatea 5th Estate for 2016 tonight – political wrap of 2016 + 2017 predictions
Joining us tonight to wrap the political year for our final show of 2016…
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SPECIAL FEATURE: The Truth About Migration (Part 1 of 4)
The issues involved in the current debate over immigration policy are so important for the country that understanding it properly requires an in-depth look that I am attempting here in four parts. I will repeat some of what I have written before but will also provide the most up to date data available.
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Auckland shows government’ policy failures writ large
Auckland is a two speed city ‘Real Housewives of Auckland’ at one end and desperately poor families living in cars in the middle of winter at the other. The affluent of Auckland are immune to the price system- it just doesn’t matter what things cost. At the other end, lives are spent economising on miserable and insufficient disposable incomes where every last 10 cents and every price rise matters.