Fair trade
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Date published: 6:12 am, November 11th, 2017 - 37 comments
Did the TPPA-11 negotiations just collapse? A breathing space to look at global economics in the context of sovereignty, democracy, fairness, social justice and ecological limits.
Open Mike 11/11/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 11th, 2017 - 83 comments
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Weekend Social 10/11/2017
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Date published: 5:19 pm, November 10th, 2017 - 31 comments
Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?
Doofus of the week
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Date published: 4:15 pm, November 10th, 2017 - 45 comments
The award for doofus of the week this week goes to David Bennett for one of the most nonsensical speeches Parliament has ever seen.
Green Party portfolio list
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Date published: 2:48 pm, November 10th, 2017 - 2 comments
The Green Party have confirmed their newly assigned MP responsibilities.
TPP11 close to being signed?
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Date published: 10:34 am, November 10th, 2017 - 127 comments
Mesia reports suggest that a possible TPP11 agreement is close to being signed.
Beneficiary for life: the joys of permanent disability in present day NZ
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Date published: 6:42 am, November 10th, 2017 - 111 comments
What happens to long term beneficiaries who can’t increase their income with paid work?
Open Mike 10/11/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 10th, 2017 - 167 comments
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Daily Review 09/11/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 9th, 2017 - 30 comments
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Reserve Bank predicts economic growth under new government
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Date published: 2:08 pm, November 9th, 2017 - 128 comments
Leaving aside the issue of economic growth as a panacea, Bill English and many who voted for him say it is the be all and end all for NZ. The Reserve Bank isnt a communist lacky, right? So they will all be happy now, right? Read here I look forward to the discussion.
The new Pay Equity Legislation
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Date published: 7:30 am, November 9th, 2017 - 17 comments
National is trying to spin that Labour refusing to continue with National’s flawed pay equity legislation shows a lack of commitment to pay equity. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Bouquets for the new government
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Date published: 6:15 am, November 9th, 2017 - 64 comments
Mining, big data, social investment, paid parental leave, and pēpi in the House. The new government’s not mucking around remedying some of the previous government’s plunder and pillage policies.
Open Mike 09/11/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 9th, 2017 - 64 comments
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TPP, Corporate Coup or “Free trade”?
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Date published: 9:07 pm, November 8th, 2017 - 99 comments
Daily Review 08/11/2017
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Date published: 5:54 pm, November 8th, 2017 - 40 comments
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This TPP…
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Date published: 11:19 am, November 8th, 2017 - 68 comments
Some aspects of the TPP no-one’s mentioning.
The Missing Noun.
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Date published: 10:09 am, November 8th, 2017 - 88 comments
When they said they wanted to eradicate poverty, I didn’t suspect they simply meant to expunge the word.
Justice for Teina Pora
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Date published: 10:02 am, November 8th, 2017 - 13 comments
Andrew Little has announced that the Government will increase the payout to Teina Pora by adjusting for inflation and by paying costs on Pora’s successful judicial review of the previous Government’s decision.
Suck it up political sleazers.
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Date published: 8:22 am, November 8th, 2017 - 113 comments
Winston Peters has launched a legal fishing expedition to identify who exactly breached privacy on his superannuation over payments. A problem that he shares with about 50 thousand other pensioners. Unlike them, his problem wasn’t trying to find money to repay it. It was that the breach was deliberately timed to be a classic dirty politics ploy, almost certainly by National, in the leadup to the recent election. I wish him good fishing.
Open Mike 08/11/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 8th, 2017 - 240 comments
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Daily Review 07/11/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 7th, 2017 - 14 comments
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Build a bridge and get over it
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Date published: 2:32 pm, November 7th, 2017 - 227 comments
Finally conceding the government’s majority, Bridges is complaining that Labour has struck back on his boss’ plan to obstruct the government on select committees by following through on his own plans to reduce their size.
The days of National dick waving
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Date published: 8:06 am, November 7th, 2017 - 28 comments
The spin that National are running is that they are unhappy with the move to reduce the MPs in select committees. That their dick size opposition party is the largest make me see teenage boys being idiots. Because there is no substantive difference to parliament from when this was recommended and now.
Paradise lost
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Date published: 8:04 am, November 7th, 2017 - 19 comments
The Paradise Papers have provided further evidence of a small group of very wealthy people are using complex trust arrangements based in tax havens to avoid paying tax.
Guns don’t shoot people, men do
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Date published: 6:33 am, November 7th, 2017 - 200 comments
Maybe it’s time to broach the elephant in the living room.
NRT: About time too
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Date published: 6:06 am, November 7th, 2017 - 3 comments
Idiot/savant writes about Labour’s legislation to extend paid parental leave.
Open Mike 07/11/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 7th, 2017 - 95 comments
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Daily Review 06/11/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 6th, 2017 - 102 comments
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Australia, you’re being a dick
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Date published: 8:35 am, November 6th, 2017 - 139 comments
Australia has refused New Zealand’s very generous offer to take 150 Manus Island refugees.
Labour and rural voters
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Date published: 7:30 am, November 6th, 2017 - 94 comments
In recent years Labour has allowed National to dominate rural politics. Maybe it is time for Labour to think about reaching out to rural voters and suggest to them that a progressive vote is in their interests.
Open Mike 06/11/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 6th, 2017 - 70 comments
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