Pacific Youth MPs challenge Parliament
Young Pacific MPs have made a bold challenge to parliamentarians in election year at the PYP: Our Movement – Pacific…
Year: 2017
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We can’t build state houses or affordable housing but we can build a $53m pavilion in Dubai???
While this Government won’t do a thing to fix our housing crisis, (other than paying for beneficiaries to live in short term motels), we are blowing $53m to build a pavilion in Dubai to try and help the dairy industry whose product is currently polluting our rivers to a country that has a human rights abuse record that makes Bashar al-Assad look reasonable…
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Julie Anne Genter shines at Cannabis protest
Julie Anne Genter shined at the Cannabis protest in Auckland over the weekend.
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Why Queenstown right now highlights the lie that is New Zealand’s ‘independent foreign policy’
We can not be an independent country, let alone have an independent foreign policy while we are a member of the 5 Eyes. The Deep State now has access to every and all secrets, our GCSB and SIS answer to Washington, they don’t answer to Wellington.
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You know shit is bad when Scientists are protesting on the streets
Scientists have been missing in action when it comes to public debate on the big issues confronting us, partly because they are so busy with expanding the total pool of human knowledge and partly because Scientists haven’t seen the need to champion science because it’s self explanatory as to why we need to listen to science.
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Health care workers pay increase – fair-pay or fish-hooks?
When it comes to fish-hooks, National has prior ‘form’. Even when National announces an ‘increase’ in social spending, it often takes that funding from other areas. Even special-needs children are not exempt from National’s shell-scam, as reported in The Daily Blog in August last year;
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Right to Resist
Israel contrives apparent justification of its persecution of Palestinian children by ensuring near-100% guilty verdicts. A non-governmental organisation, Military Court Watch, monitored the treatment of more than 450 Palestinian minors held captive by the Israeli military between 2013 and 2016. The data collected revealed that 94% of those taken prisoner in 2013 and 2016 reported being painfully handcuffed. In an even more needless and terrorising abuse, 82% were blindfolded. Verbal violence was experienced by 46%.
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Political Caption Competition
Kim Trump-un
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 23rd April 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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TWITTER WATCH: Is this the most stupid comment made about the People’s Report on Mental Health?
…the People’s Report on Mental Health is a challenging and deeply necessary body of work that forces us to confront the damage we are needlessly causing through our under funded mental health service.