The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 6th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2017
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Bold plans needed to tackle child poverty not vague promises – Child Poverty Action Group
Bold plans needed to tackle child poverty, not vague promises Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says bold plans are needed,…
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Every Child’s Right to a Healthy Home – Child Poverty Action Group
Today Every Child Counts and the Child Poverty Action Group are hosting a housing forum, asking political parties what they…
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Piecemeal Policies Won’t Fix Education Inequality – Closing The Gap
A commitment to fully free education is the only way to tackle New Zealand’s high level of education inequality, the…
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Political & Practical Advantages of Trains to Huapai – Public Transport Users Association
Political and Practical Advantages of Trains to Huapai, Ceded to National, New Zealand First Opportunities to use existing infrastructure in…
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Labour Party Supports Decriminalisation of Abortion – ALRANZ
Labour Party Supports Decriminalisation of Abortion Labour Party Leader Jacinda Ardern called for the decriminalisation of abortion in the second…
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Assessment of Labour Party Fiscal Plan costings – BERL
BERL strongly disputes assertions that there are errors in the Labour Party Fiscal Plan that BERL examined and assessed. We…
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Conference to develop the pathway for indigenous rights – Human Rights Commission
The Conference on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will provide a needed pathway forward for indigenous…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Response to Paula Bennett recent statements
No one wants to see meth in our community, no one wants to see organised crime flourish – but Paula Bennett’s absurd suggestions that we allow Police to conduct unreasonable searches on ‘gang members’ has so many loopholes and counter productive outcomes it smacks of desperation rather than intelligent and well thought out social policy to solve complex issues.
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Some People: Paula Bennett And National’s Tribal Instincts
The Police Minister knows that the most effective means of breaking the gangs’ power would be to remove the criminal stigma from unwise drug use. But, like all Police Ministers, Paula Bennett knows that the drug laws are not there to end the misuse of drugs. They are there to create a nether world of criminality and addiction against which the situation of “normal” people may be favourably compared.