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Daily Review 07/02/2019
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Should teaching about the Treaty of Waitangi be compulsory?
It was sure refreshing to see the current head of the National Party saying on Waitangi Day that teaching of New Zealand history should be compulsory in the New Zealand curriculum: I think we should have as part of our own New Zealand history course,…
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What should Jacinda Ardern say in her state of the nation speech?
I put up a post five years ago asking what then Labour leader David Cunliffe should say in his state of the nation address. The post provoked rather intense discussion and 425 comments. Tomorrow Jacinda Ardern will do the same although the circumstances will be…
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Upset by Offset
In the gym, a guy was asked why he worked out and his reply was “so that I can drink more”. The funny thing is, it makes a lot of (common) sense, doesn’t it? There’s a whole offsetting industry built around the idea that (environmental)…
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Open Mike 07/02/2019
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Open Mike 06/02/2019
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Happy Waitangi day
E nga mana, e nga reo, e rau rangatira ma, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. I hope everyone gets out today to celebrate Waitangi day. For many, many years Waitangi day was a day of tension, when frustration over treaty breaches smashed into…
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Daily Review 05/02/2019
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Liam Neeson Under the Cosh
British actor Liam Neeson has made an extraordinary confession in an interview with the Independent news site. Promoting his new film, Cold Pursuit, Neeson has claimed that many years ago, he spent a week or more hanging around bars late at night hoping to get…
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Mr Brash goes to Waitangi
How Waitangi day is changing. It used to be a place where right wing politicians feared to go. Back in 2004 then opposition leader Don Brash followed up his infamous Orewa speech, where he talked about racial separation and the treaty grievance industry with a…
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Open Mike 05/02/2019
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Daily Review 04/02/2019
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Herald and Du Plessis-Allan present compelling argument in favour of industry wide bargaining
Yes you read this right. And credit where is credit is due. And maybe the wingnuts are right and the Herald is secretly a left wing rag although the more likely explanation is that it can and will support a rational argument. Because Heather Du…
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Open Mike 04/02/2019
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Trump’s brilliant strategy to dismantle US dollar hegemony
Polymath economist Professor Michael Hudson's latest article is a geopolitical panoramic masterpiece, sparked by outrage at a series of concurrent events on January 31 which he predicts means that 2019 will be the "year of global fracture." Definitely worth reading and thinking about. The…
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Auckland’s yellow jacket protest
Yesterday on a bright and sunny day I popped down to Aotea Square to see what the extreme right was up to. There had been a fair amount of social media promotion of the yellow jacket rally and I wondered what sort of turnout they…
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Open Mike 03/02/2019
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How To Get There 3/2/19
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The Meathead tax
It's summertime. The economy is improving, unemployment is down, major corporations are signing up to be living wage employers and our leader dazzles where ever she goes in the world. And the opposition leader is clearly not cutting it. And his social media team are…
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Open Mike 02/02/2019
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Daily Review 01/02/2019
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Westpac becomes accredited living wage employer
Hell must be freezing over. This post is to congratulate Westpac on becoming an accredited living wage employer. What is especially interesting is that it was willing to submit to the certification process of a voluntary organisation comprising of representatives of the trade union movement,…
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Simon Wilson thinks Epsom could be offered to Blue-Greens
Is ACT finished? Herald writer Simon Wilson has used his considerable analytical powers to propose a possible scenario for getting the nascent Blue Green Party into Parliament. And that is for National to offer it the seat of Epsom, the same way that National has…
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Migrant’s picnic this weekend at Tamaki Makaurau
Love Aotearoa hate racism is holding a picnic on Saturday afternoon at Myers Park in Auckland City to celebrate our diversity. Whatever you do don't confuse the event with this event which is being put on by the particularly inappropriately named New Conservatives. They want…
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Open Mike 01/02/2019
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