Letter to the editor – Annette King on the TPPA
. . from: Frank Macskasy <fmacskasy@gmail.com> to: Sunday Star Times <letters@star-times.co.nz> date: Wed, Oct 7, 2015 subject: Letter to the editor . The editor Sunday Star Times . From a...
View ArticleAndrew Little: if you want to send a really strong message to New Zealanders…
. . Palmerston North, 8 November 2015 – E nga mana E nga tapu E Te whanau o te roopu reipa Tena koutou katoa Talofa lava Kia orana Malo e lelei Nǐ hǎo Namaste Thank you so much for that welcome. Can...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Steven Joyce – Hypocrite of the Year
. . Labour’s recent policy announcement regarding re-introducing free tertiary education met with predictable knee-jerk hysteria from the Right; . . Though why the media still seeks comment from the...
View ArticleThe Mendacities of Mr Key # 16: No one deserves a free tertiary education...
. . Prologue As reported in a previous blogpost last year (Steven Joyce – Hypocrite of the Week); Fun Fact #1: Student loan stood at $14.235 billion, as at 30 June 2014 – up from 9.573 billion in 2008....
View ArticleLetter to the editor – In response to Orwellian National Supporters
. . I see that National Party apparatchiks are up to their usual disingenuous tricks, trying to suggest that Labour was a worse manager of the New Zealand economy than National; . . As many are...
View ArticleLetter to the editor: Setting it straight on user-pays in tertiary education
. . Labour’s promise of a return to (limited) free tertiary education appears to be unsettling some, for whom the last thirty years has been dominated by the implementation and bedding-in of user-pays...
View ArticleRebuilding the Country we grew up in – Little’s Big Task ahead
. . 2007: John Key says Housing is in crisis . On 20 August 2007, National’s new leader, John Key, made a stirring speech to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Contractors Federation. In it, he...
View ArticleThe Labour interns – ACT exposes hypocrisy!
. . The headlines! A few days ago, headlines appeared supposedly “exposing a rort” by the NZ Labour Party to exploit American interns for electoral campaigning purposes; . . The “Shock! Horror!”...
View ArticleObservations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (wha)
. . Who paid for the Budget surplus? . The 2017 Pre-Election Fiscal Update (PREFU) revealed that the Nats had achieved a respectable $3.7 billion surplus – contrasting sharply with the $1.6 billion...
View ArticleObservations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (whitu)
. . The final day of campaign is upon us. Tomorrow is the “official” Election Day and nine years of National government is about to either end – or win a rare fourth term. Polling does not look good...
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