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It was a full house at Mata Beer last Saturday night when the EBOPers Big Band, featuring The Tequila Mockingbirds, put on a super-impressive performance. The EBOPers were formed out of the EBOP Brass Band in 2014, and are now established performers on the local circuit. . . . → Read More: Review: EBOPers impress 
Here are some key takeaways from the Budget yesterday: Cuts to support for families Cuts to government contributions to KiwiSaver Theft of $12.8 billion from the lowest earning women Tax breaks to business Ongoing fossil fuel extraction with $200 million going into new gas exploration projects No commitments to ending child poverty . . . → Read More: What a wild week in politics it has been 
Anne and Phillip lived 5 kms down the road. To give you an idea of what that meant, if I walked to their farm I passed 4 other houses. In those first couple of years I went there a lot. They looked after me. They rescued me. . . . → Read More: Meet Anne and Phillip of Waikaretu 
For those who were unable to attend the Patient Voice Roadshow tonight I got permission off Malcolm Mulholland to record and publish the presentations of him, two nurses and the mayor. I stopped recording at Q & A. ====== Malcolm Mulholland is the chair of Patient Voice Aotearoa, a patient advocacy group. He is . . . → Read More: Malcolm Mulholland is the chair of Patient Voice Aotearoa, a patient advocacy group. He is taking his patient voice advocacy campaign to the people.  Comments are closed  
The only thing we can do about awful people is not to become one of them Election night 2023 was a good night for the landlords, foreign speculators, and the very wealthy. For tenants and people who mahi hard to keep afloat, not so much. For those of us whose values include looking . . . → Read More: The only thing we can do about awful people is not to become one of them. 
Voting Papers I get asked a lot by people who I am voting for? And why?And who should they vote for. Who I’m voting for is easy to answer. I’m voting for Sebastian who lives opposite The Bean on the seats outside the public toilets. I buy him a coffee when I . . . → Read More: Time To Vote 
Dad had a lot of friends and we learned this as we went through our teens. we knew there were friends who came around and visited and there were his work friends and football club friends and friends from his other clubs and interests. Dad asked all of them, all of them, to keep . . . → Read More: The Mad Butcher 
Ian and Elaine with their some of their mokopuna My dad did a trade when he was a young man. He became a bootmaker. But he couldn’t feed his kids on what he was making so he got a job at Hellaby’s Freezing Works in Otahuhu. He worked hard and we never went . . . → Read More: Dad was a freezing worker. No Right Turn I know a lot of people are concerned at the relentless volume and vitriol of the attacks and attempts to undermine our elected government.It was hard enough for them in 2017 when Winston responded to the Dirty Politics leaking of his super errors by National by forming a coalition with Labour . . . → Read More: No Right Turn 
Source: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/hijacked-the-inside-story-of-how-nzs-convoy-lost-its-rudder Days of protesters’ chats reveal the inside story of how New Zealand’s convoy was hijacked by the far-right fringe, Marc Daalder reports Special report: The convoy wasn’t supposed to end this way. What organisers hoped would be a mass movement shutting down the nation’s capital until vaccine mandates were removed has devolved into . . . → Read More: EXTREMISM: ‘Splintered realities’: How NZ convoy lost its way |
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