Pitiful response to Housing NZ meth hysteria
The “pocket money” offer to state house tenants wrongly evicted from their homes based on bogus meth testing is deeply cynical and insulting.
Year: 2018
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Sacking a female Māori MP in the week of Suffrage 125
What a tragic symbolism for Māori women in the week of Suffrage 125.
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Annual Leave: Time’s Up – Pay it back!
Hundreds of millions of dollars are owed to hundreds of thousands of workers and only the top 100 employers are being asked to fix the problem and pay it back.
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A Modest Proposal For Russia’s Response To Israel In The Wake Of An F-16
So now the dust (or, perhaps, some measure of the ‘fog of war’) is starting to clear over Monday’s events in Syria, it’s probably prudent to reflect on what Putin can and should do in response to what has occurred.
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Has Neoliberalism Colonised Our Minds?
New Zealand is by no means exempt from the effects of this unravelling neoliberal hegemony. In this country, also, there is a large colonised population presided over by a distant and hated elite. We, too, have constructed an underclass whose full citizenship and personhood is routinely denied in overcrowded prisons; at the counter of the local WINZ office; and by “unconsciously biased” teachers, medics and cops.
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E tū welcomes High Court ruling on steel dumping
E tū says its support for NZ Steel’s complaint of steel-dumping by China has been vindicated by a High Court…
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Senior doctors ask Minister to put pathology back on short supply list
The senior doctors’ union has asked the Minister for Economic Development, David Parker, to reverse his Ministry’s decision to remove…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 21st September 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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So when will the NZ mainstream media start examining how they contributed to the Meth Hysteria story?
How did this monstrosity manage to get out of hand so fast in a first world country based on science? Because the corporate media’s favourite whipping boy, beneficiaries, were involved and no one lost money in newspapers from beating up on bludgers.
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David Fisher and the double standards of NZ Politics
Labour will always be crucified for policy in a way that National never does.