The Liberal Agenda – Whānau Ora Diploma Graduation 2018 livestream – August 3rd
53 kaimahi who work for recognised Whanau Ora organisations throughout the North Island will graduate with a Diploma in Whanau Ora at a ceremony in August.
Year: 2018
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Net zero emission targets should be legislated now – Ora Taiao
Reaching net zero emission by 2040 should be legislated now, as championed by OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 18th July 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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A week of Tim
A week of Tim
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The irony of identity politics, David Cormack’s civility and the paradox of Karl Popper’s tolerance
Those who would weaponise difference and seed resentment require brutality, civility is a guard against that. I’m not saying turn the other cheek when a Nazi strikes you, confusing civility with refusing self-defence isn’t a solution, but by strangling off freedom of speech, we only add to their cause, we don’t counter it.
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The Liberal Agenda – Free family fun to close out Matariki
WHAT: Matariki celebration
WHEN: 5.30pm, Saturday 21st
WHERE: Silo Park
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Trump & Putin – the new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Putin just can not believe his luck can he? Look at the glee in his eyes as he meets this orange carnival of ignorance. I never thought I’d see the day when the President of the United States of America sided with the Russians?!?
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If You’re Serious About Southern – This Is The Next Logical Step
While s61 of the Human Rights Act makes it unlawful to “excite hostility against or bring into contempt” racial/ethnic groups in a variety of contexts … I am unaware of any parallel and corresponding prohibition on doing likewise against religious groups or adherents on a similar basis.
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An Inconvenient Truth About Free Speech Denialism
Nothing could be more helpful to the cause of the Right than a Left which has lost its faith in the people. What, after all, is more likely to cause the people to lose faith in the Left than a nagging suspicion that their self-appointed liberators regard them as being either too vicious or too stupid to grasp the arguments in favour of individual freedom and social justice without instruction from above?
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Free speech for racist or religious hatred?
In this environment progressive New Zealanders must fight for free speech in every arena possible but this does not include defending “rights” of anyone to promote racist or religious hatred which smooths the path to fascism.