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.
Daily Review 06/09/2016
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Government seeking to remove property buy back rights under urgency
Nick Smith has introduced a bill into Parliament which he wants to be passed under urgency without select committee oversight. The bill takes away the right of any prior owner of land taken under the Public Works Act to have housing land offered back to them. To do this under urgency is banana republic stuff.
The Million Dollar Minister
No denying the housing crisis now, Nick.
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. Here’s her vision for the role and the party.
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. But also looked at some of the economic benefits
Can a national park be a person?
While New Zealand trashes its water and argues over whether we are allow to say ‘dairy cow’ at the same time, this 1 min video on The Guardian Facebook page about the Rights of Nature in NZ gets 2.4 million views
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, but actually maybe they just need proper pay & conditions.
Open Mike 06/09/2016
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Little’s Big Parliamentary ‘Member’
Andrew Little fully fronts up.
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.
Take the power back
The Jobs That Count campaign isn’t just about Talley’s AFFCO. It’s about getting local councils that work for all of us and make sure that the big businesses in our communities give back to us.
Will Shane Jones stand for NZ First in Whangarei?
Rumours suggesting that Shane Jones will stand for New Zealand First in Whangarei at the next election have resurfaced.
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 […]
Open Mike 04/09/2016
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the important ideas of our time.
Close the camps Australia
A protest is planned today in Auckland against Wilson’s Parking for its parent company’s management of the Nauru and Manus Island refugee detention centre.
Open Mike 03/09/2016
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Daily Review 02/09/2016
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Women wearing clothes
In France and Italy there have been recent examples of men telling women what they can and cannot wear.
Disturbing.
Given the topic of this post, it seems appropriate not to attach an image.
Only unsustainable net migration fuels “growth”
Our National dipshit ministers have decided to start a new growth industry. They importing low-skilled to extract their savings, using them to generate artificial heat in the service economy and to slow wage growth. On the way through they’re also screwing the housing market. Our current net permanent long-term migration is completely unsustainable. Perhaps it is time to vote NZ First?
Open Mike 02/09/2016
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World Water Week
Never heard of it? Neither had I.
Democracy doesn’t belong to government…
42 years on, Norman Kirk’s words and work remain a beacon.
Aussie gets its first federal Aboriginal woman MP
Linda Burney, the newly elected MP for Barton, gave an historic, powerful maiden speech yesterday. I enter this place as a representative of […]
European Union v Apple and the US
And in Europe the EU has taken steps against Apple for rampant tax evasion and an EU-US free trade deal appears to be dead.