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The Government's changes to employment law have been announced. From the Beehive website: The Government has taken an important step toward creating a high-performing economy that delivers good jobs, decent work conditions and fair wages with a new Bill to amend the Employment Relations Act…
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We may be forgiven for thinking that the main reason we got into the TPP in the first place was to enhance our industrial agricultural interests and diversify our trade and investment relationships. Personally I blame the undemocratic process of its formation for this. For…
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Disabled journalist, writer, feminist, social justice campaigner, and poet Sarah Wilson writes about some of the underlying attitudes in the attack on the PM being pregnant and draws comparisons with how beneficiaries and ill people are treated. Cross posted from writehanded.org _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Amid accusations that our…
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Press release from greens.org.nz James Shaw MP on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 11:06 The Green Party’s position on the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is unchanged, Co-leader James Shaw said today. “We recognise Trade Minister David Parker has made significant progress on some…
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https://twitter.com/wekatweets/status/955944528489279489 Obituary from the New York Times: Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at…
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It appears that the revised TPPA agreement (now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement) may be signed in March after Canadian concerns have been satisfied. From Radio New Zealand: The revised Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is to be signed in March, the Trade Minister…
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A female Prime Minister speaks at Waitangi and it feels surprisingly normal. No one loses their shit during the speeches. The only crime is sunburn. The media show examples of the wars of the 1860s and their impact, just like they have for World War…
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Part of the reason I believe Jacinda is doing so well is there is something really fresh in her approach to issues. Her recent announcement concerning Waitangi is a classic example. Rather than show indifference to Ngāpuhi's justified anger over breaches of the Treaty of…
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From the Facebook events page: As the summer break comes to an end, join Marama and whānau for a special announcement at MIT's Ngā Kete Wānanga Marae in the heart of South Auckland on Sun 4 Feb. Marama Davidson is a Green Party MP and…
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Auckland Council has three, yes three, by elections occurring right now with voting papers to be delivered soon. Two are because Denise Lee and Simeon Brown have been elected as National electorate MPs. The third is because Mark Davey, just elected as an Auckland Future…
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On September the 11th 1973, the Chilean air-force attacked the presidential palace of Chile with Hawker Hunter fighter jets. As most people are no doubt aware, that presaged the beginning of General Augusto Pinochet's almost two decades long dictatorship. Pinochet died in 2006. During his life,…
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I've no doubt there will be various analyses and commentaries on the Women's Marches that have taken place across the US and elsewhere. This post isn't making any commentary. This post is merely presenting video of Viola Davis giving a wide ranging, most powerful and…
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A feature in yesterday’s Domion Post Weekend lays bare the extent of the scandalous selloff of huge tracts of our high country. Charlie Mitchell’s report details how the tenure review of the high country has been conducted since it began in 1992 when many leasehold…
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Right now in the United States of America the Republican Party have control of all parts of the Government. The President is a Republican, the Senate has a Republican majority and the House of Representatives also has a Republican majority. Government ought to be a…
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Following on from Dave Kennedy's excellent post from the other day, apparently Cape Town is in the throes of its worst drought in over 100 years (link). The Globe and Mail mentions uncited calculations placing the drought as a one in a thousand year event.…
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Whatever anyone may think or have thought of the multi-faceted warring going on in Syria these past years, one beacon of hope seemed to have been burning in Syria’s north east. Seemingly neither for nor against the Syrian Arab Army, but defiantly and purposefully against…
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Yes, his racist and sexist foul mouth is on the list. Yes, international disrespect is on the list. Yes, corruptly gaining wealth as a public official is on the list. But President Trump’s big reason to be opposed by the left is how he has…
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Rather than apologise, it’s time the Left and the new government embraced “nanny state” as a positive, just as the gay community claimed the previously pejorative term “queer” Nanny state has been a powerful, effective term permitting initiatives to reduce behaviour that is harmful to…
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In breaking news from twitter: https://twitter.com/jacindaardern/status/954109869509914624 Congratulations Jacinda and Clarke.
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Dave Kennedy writes at localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.co.nz about the climate change impact in Southland. Over ten years ago I organised a symposium on climate change to support a Climate Change Tour being conducted by the Green Co-leaders at the time, Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russel Norman. It was Norman who fronted…
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