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Daily Review 07/09/2016
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Race, Class, Global Warming and Democracy.
Is there a racist element to global warming? Well, if you consider that the majority of accumulated emissions come from nations of richer 'whiter' peoples and that the impacts of climate change will hit nations of poorer 'non-white' peoples hardest, then yes. And so it…
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Racism Resurgent
A Trump win for the Presidency would be one of the most powerful global signals to re-state white racial superiority that the world has seen in many decades. Let's start with the kind of political party a Trump election would encourage in the United States.…
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#ParkUpForGovernment
Despite the large number of people with terrible stories about homelessness to the Labour/Greens/Maori1 Homelessness Inquiry, this Government of Housing Inaction still thinks the problem should be ignored and the Inquiry 'not needed'. Some horrific stories including of burnt out social workers ("I liken it…
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RNZ Auckland Mayoral Debate
Radio NZ are hosting the first big head to head debate for Auckland mayoral candidates. Hosted by Morning Report's Guyon Espiner at 8am, it features eventual winner Phil Goff and also rans Vic Crone, previous mayoral runner-up John Palino, and local board member Mark Thomas.…
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Open Mike 07/09/2016
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Eileen Brown for CCDHB
Capital Coast DHB candidate Eileen Brown chairs the Newtown Union Health Service Board, a primary care service for people on low incomes. For the last 10 years, Eileen has worked for the Council of Trade Unions as a senior policy analyst; previously she worked in…
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Daily Review 06/09/2016
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Government seeking to remove property buy back rights under urgency
Nick Smith, Minister for housing, has introduced the Housing Legislation Amendment Bill into Parliament today and the Government is seeking to pass it under urgency. The legislation shows clearly how shambolic his handling of his portfolio is. The bill attempts to achieve two goals. The first extends times…
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The Million Dollar Minister
Good old Paddy Gower turns savage on Nick Smith: In November 2008, the year National came to power - the average house in Auckland was $501,939. When Nick Smith took over as Housing Minister in January 2013 - it was $607,439. And now it $1,013,632.…
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Guest Post: Beth Houston for Senior Vice President
The Standard’s authors have offered candidates for the upcoming Labour Party internal elections the chance to guest post about why they’re running. Beth Houston has been nominated for the position of Senior Vice President. lprent: Note that, like all campaign for party position posts, this post…
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On the whiner’s excuse “but we are so small”
Damon over at civicanalysis wrote an interesting post over the weekend "How New Zealand can help save the world" (and then pointed my attention to it :) ). It looks at what we can do to structurally alleviate climate change. Now I have some issues with…
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Can a national park be a person?
Te Urewera national park has been granted legal personhood, meaning nobody owns it. The park has the same rights and powers as a citizen. The ruling could set a new precedent for land rights and conservation around the world. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/772728948878897152 The Māori Law Review article…
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Key: Kiwis are lazy drug users
John Key let the mask slip yesterday - as he said that we needed immigrant labour even for unskilled work because of the work ethic and drug use of New Zealand workers. That's how he sees normal Kiwis, struggling to get ahead in his economy. Much…
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Open Mike 06/09/2016
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Little’s Big Parliamentary ‘Member’
Obviously listening to Danyl's need for positive gossip, we have a great top Herald clickbait story about Andrew Little's rugged naked body. Possibly not of his office's placement, it would appear the artist did the donkey work for him... Still in the need to combat…
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Daily Review 05/09/2016
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Kevin Hague to leave Parliament
In breaking news Kevin Hague has announced that he is to leave Parliament to head Forest and Bird. From the Green Party website: Kevin has made a huge contribution to the Green Party and the green movement and we are truly sorry he is leaving…
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Take the power back
This weekend the Nation ran a story about Talley’s AFFCO and the way they behave toward their workers, the environment, and our communities. As part of that they interviewed two of our Jobs That Count local government candidates. These are working class people who are…
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Will Shane Jones stand for NZ First in Whangarei?
Rumours suggesting that former Labour MP Shane Jones will stand for New Zealand First in Whangarei in the next election received another airing over the weekend. From the Herald: Shane Jones created a lot of buzz at the New Zealand First conference over the weekend,…
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Open Mike 05/09/2016
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The Mayoral candidates and the living wage proposal
I attended the Living Wage People's assembly this week in St Matthews in the City. The idea behind the meeting was to get Mayoral and Waitemata ward candidates to express their views on the living wage proposal as well as improved public transport services and rental accommodation…
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Open Mike 04/09/2016
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas
The Festival runs today and tomorrow. Unfortunately, I don't live in Sydney. However, there is a satellite link for two of the presentations "Break a Rule a Day" from Lionel Shriver and "The Government We Deserve?" by Annabel Crabb and David Marr It looks as…
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Close the camps Australia
A protest is planned in Auckland today by local progressive activist Julia Schiller against Wilson Security for its continued management of the Nauru and Manus Island refugee detention centre. Wilson Security is an Australian firm and is related to Wilsons Parking in New Zealand. In…
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Open Mike 03/09/2016
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Daily Review 02/09/2016
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Women wearing clothes
India's tourism minister Mahesh Sharma stated this week that tourists would be handed a list of do's and don'ts at airports that would advise them "not to wear skirts" or "venture out alone in small cities." Cue outrage on Twitter. He clarified later that he…
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Disturbing.
. Killed in their pyjamas by father in frenzied attack – before mother-in-law found note. That's the headline from an Irish newspaper reporting the murder of a mother and her four children by her husband and children's father and I'm quietly wondering how many minds…
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Only unsustainable net migration fuels “growth”
In a world where the world's overall population levels are steadily descending to steady or declining state, the National dipshits have decided to start a new growth industry. They importing unskilled people to extract their savings and using them to generate artificial heat in the economy and to…
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