Open Mike 14/09/2016
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Daily Review 13/09/2016
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The trouble with polls
Labour has released its latest UMR polling which shows a dramatically different result to that of the latest Colmar Brunton poll.
New Zealand is a socialist nirvana *
* at least according to David Seymour.
India’s general strike
The world’s biggest general strike ever occurred this month in India.
Open Mike 13/09/2016
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Latest Colmar Brunton: NAT 48%, LAB+GR 39%
National stays steady as she goes on 48%. Labour is down 3% to 26%.
Daily Review 12/09/2016
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The homeless crisis is getting worse
Figures provided by the Government to Labour suggest that providing accommodation for families with chronic housing needs is taking much longer than it did six months ago. But Paula Bennett has replied by suggesting that the figures do not reflect reality.
Open Mike 12/09/2016
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Lose yourself in the music
While we’re enjoying the popcorn at Williams vs Craig, there’s another enjoyable court case coming next year shortly before the election…
The manipulation of burglary statics
Reporter Eugene Bingham who broke the story on how Papakura police were doctoring crime statistics by recoding burglaries as other offences two years ago has written about how his attempts to get to the truth of the matter has effectively been thwarted by the police.
Open Mike 11/09/2016
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Big Oil in plain packaging
Big Tobacco was hit this week in New Zealand after Parliament passed laws requiring smokes to be sold in plain packaging. The science about the health threats posed by smoking is settled, as is the science over climate change. When can we expect laws being passed against the oil companies?
Rally for Democracy
Details of the Rally for Democracy event in Auckland today.
Open Mike 10/09/2016
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Daily Review 09/09/2016
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Chloe King – John Key, I am a low waged worker, and neither “lazy” nor “drug addled”
Blogger and social activist Chloe King, one of the hundreds of thousands of low waged workers in this country was devastated by John Key’s comments suggesting that she and others were lazy and had no work ethic. This is her response.
Video: neoliberalism as a colonising project
“If indigenous people were given a space to be able to think about what system would work for them, I don’t think that would look like capitalism” – Kassie Hartendorp speaking at the launch of ESRA last week.
Open Mike 09/09/2016
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NZ Human Rights Commission Open Letter to NZ Rugby Union on respecting women
The Human Rights Commission is calling on New Zealanders to sign the open letter to New Zealand Rugby, which asks them to seek support in addressing their internal culture issues.
PETITION: Stop Govt. funded river pollution
Help get the petition to 45,000.
Daily Review 08/09/2016
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NZ: Home of Rugby, Raping and Beer
The whitewash of the rugby players who assaulted a woman at a post season piss up has been released. A mightily relieved rugby boss Steve Tew can now go into the rest of the season knowing that the All Black squad will not be affected by the loss of any players to suspension. The only person to have lost their job over the incident is the victim. How cool is that?
We’re Number 1!
Already number 4 for housing unaffordability, we’re now number 1 for house price rises!
Video: What comes after neoliberalism?
Nick Srnicek’s keynote talk at the launch of Economic and Social Research Aotearoa, on the role that left think tanks like ESRA can play in developing a post-capitalist politics for today.
‘Living Rent’ and other UK stories
A Tory think tank proposes a massive house-building plan, with a ‘Living Rent’ to make it affordable; and Nick Clegg lifts the lid on the Tories in the last government.
National loses control of Parliament
It may have been brief and passing but yesterday National lost control of Parliament. And it was all their own fault.
Open Mike 08/09/2016
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Daily Review 07/09/2016
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Race, Class, Global Warming and Democracy.
Nothing and no-one is separate in this world. Nothing and no-one is more important than anything else or anyone else; no voice greater and no voice lesser.
Racism Resurgent
A Trump win in America would cause a resurgence of the most racist toxic views imaginable, not only in America but elsewhere.
#ParkUpForGovernment
Despite the large number of people with terrible stories about homelessness to the Labour/Greens/Maori Homelessness Inquiry, this Government of Housing Inaction still thinks the problem should be ignored and the Inquiry ‘not needed’.
RNZ Auckland Mayoral Debate
The first big debate in the Auckland mayoralty race starts at 8am today. Links in the post.
Voting closes on October 8. Phil Goff wins the mayoralty shortly afterwards.
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 nursing in many areas including mental health and neuro rehabilitation. Eileen is standing as a Labour candidate. She’d be great on the DHB.