Debt is good
It really is - if it is used for the right things....
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Campaign dreamer
I have a dream that these four little children - and their sisters and brothers - will one day live in a nation where they are not judged for whether they are Māori, Pakeha, Pacifica - or any other of the 100+ nationalities who now live in Auckland - but
Flowers for Labour after Covid
"If not for the Government's grace, I would not be here," says Belladonna Flowers' owner Donna Repia. The "breather" the Covid subsidy gave her meant her business could continue to bloom when Covid faded, she says. Or as Bill Harrison put it: "
'Please Sir, can I have some more?'
Are the days back? Oliver Twist asked the unimaginable in the workhouse in Charles Dickens' tale of the same name. Kiwi kids are saying similar now: "Please Sir, can I have some lunch... and also some bus fare, so I can get to school and home again?"
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