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Date published: 7:39 am, August 10th, 2016 - 16 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, brand key, john key, national, same old national, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: homeless, homeless crisis
In Parliament yesterday John Key showed a clear lack of understanding of what being poor in New Zealand entails.
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Date published: 9:05 pm, August 9th, 2016 - 12 comments
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Former Councillor Chris Parkin interviewed in Wellington’s DomPost shared his ambitions – investing in property in central Wellington, and getting Porirua mayor Nick Leggett elected in Wellington, of all places. Word has it that large billboards for Leggett around the town have been funded by Parkin. The last thing Wellington needs is a mayor who’s in a property investor’s pocket.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 10th, 2016 - 1 comment
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Date published: 6:11 pm, August 9th, 2016 - 6 comments
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Date published: 12:34 pm, August 9th, 2016 - 19 comments
Lefties have been saying it since forever, but it’s nice to have Hillary Clinton on record.
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Date published: 10:14 am, August 9th, 2016 - 7 comments
Yeah Happy Birthday JK. But – does anyone actually fall for this?
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Date published: 9:49 am, August 9th, 2016 - 70 comments
More good news for the political left in the fine print of yesterday’s Newshub-Reid Research poll.
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Date published: 8:03 am, August 9th, 2016 - 18 comments
There is one item on the list concerning whether John Key knew about the brewing trade squabble with China regarding the dumping of cheap steel on the local market.
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 9th, 2016 - 105 comments
The Nats would have you believe that the economy is in good shape, in which case there is no excuse for the ongoing stagnation of wages. Of course it’s not as simple as that.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2016 - 90 comments
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Date published: 6:50 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 111 comments
The latest Reid Research poll is grim reading for the Nats. Labour and the Greens are closing fast.
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Date published: 6:04 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 21 comments
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Date published: 5:04 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 21 comments
Nanaia Mahuta will tomorrow become the first woman MP to wear the moko in Parliament.
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Date published: 2:20 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 8 comments
I/S at No Right Turn writes on meth testing, false positives, and Housing NZ.
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Date published: 12:08 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 72 comments
Financial capital is way over powered in our current political economic system. Every aspect of our lives has been financialised and securitised, from our homes to our educations. From our drinking water to our power supply.
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Date published: 8:40 am, August 8th, 2016 - 29 comments
From Newshub:
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Date published: 7:54 am, August 8th, 2016 - 69 comments
Globalisation is facing a popular revolt. Economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2016 - 78 comments
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Date published: 1:45 pm, August 7th, 2016 - 59 comments
Rodney Hide must be sleeping well, because Auckland’s proposed Unitary Plan will deliver all he and his NACT patrons ever hoped for. The Council should reject the Plan in its current form, cherry-pick those aspects consistent with a democratic and liveable city and sheet home the responsibility to those that created the mess.
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Date published: 12:05 pm, August 7th, 2016 - 11 comments
Despite being an early adopter I completely failed to spot the potential of the web.
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Date published: 10:00 am, August 7th, 2016 - 96 comments
Cross-posted from Boots Theory. Where to start with Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About The Economy? This review seems redundant, because literally every person I’ve encountered in the past year has been subjected to my near-evangelist recommendation of it. I don’t know every lefty in New Zealand (despite what Matthew […]
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Date published: 9:17 am, August 7th, 2016 - 49 comments
The Waikato Chief’s mad Monday shows that Rugby’s attitude to women are still mired in the past and a threat to New Zealand’s interests, as well as an affront to all women.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 7th, 2016 - 88 comments
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Date published: 12:34 pm, August 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
The Italian intiaitive encouraging supermarkets to give unsold food to those in need is a great move. Helps the poor, reduces waste, win win. But it’s just a start. We need to massively change attitudes and behaviour to reduce food waste.
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 6th, 2016 - 289 comments
Al Jazeera: Once a pioneer of the social welfare state, New Zealand now has over 40,000 people who are homeless, forced to live in their cars and in garages as a result of rapid house price and rent rises and a shortage of social housing. Al Jazeera … charts the country’s fall from and egalitarian society to one with deep divisions of wealth
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2016 - 80 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 5th, 2016 - 5 comments
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Date published: 2:18 pm, August 5th, 2016 - 54 comments
Unions Auckland’s Housing Action Committee is planning to highlight the homeless crisis tomorrow by protesting at a Block NZ’s open home to highlight the absurdity of the current housing market.
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Date published: 11:40 am, August 5th, 2016 - 35 comments
In a sign of just how stressed our economy is: “Inland Revenue is chasing employers for unpaid KiwiSaver contributions worth tens of millions of dollars.”
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Date published: 8:56 am, August 5th, 2016 - 39 comments
The number of police (per head of population) is falling, and crime figures are rising. But no doubt National will play the “tough on crime” card again next year.
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