Closure of iconic Christchurch plant – E Tu
Closure of iconic Christchurch plant E tū is extremely concerned to see another local manufacturer shutting up shop and heading…
Year: 2018
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Malcolm Evans – Pssst
Malcolm Evans – Pssst
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Political Caption Competition
The exception to the rule that sugar catches more flies than vinegar
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 12th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Harsh response lessons abound in wake of PNG’s ‘invisible’ quake
It has been described by the BBC as the “invisible quake” – at least to the outside world. However, more than 100 people have died with landslides engulfing entire villages in the Papua New Guinean Highlands earthquake … PNG journalists have been doing an admirable job reporting the disaster to international media as well as their own people in difficult and risky circumstances.
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Dear Al Nisbet – it’s not a witch hunt men fear, it’s a witch trial
A ‘witch hunt’ is an angry lynch mob hunting for a mythical monster and what we have learned and seen about harassment in the work place over the last couple of years tells us that harassment isn’t a myth, it’s real, it’s visceral and it’s unacceptable. We don’t have a witch hunt here, we have the ingredients for a witch trial.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Time to act on bail
In September 2010, before the death of Christie Marceau, 20% of people in prison were on remand, that is being held before their case was heard. As a result of changed legislation and pressure from the no bail lobby, that figure is now 30%.
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GUEST BLOG: David Tank – How I want to bring back the Moa and Save the World.
A formal request for your support of “The Moa Prize,” a “crowd sourced” innovation prize for advances deemed in the best interests of the people of New Zealand and the World in general.
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How Mihingarangi Forbes Helped me to Understand Allyship: A perspective from one disabled woman
As I absorbed Forbes’words, it hit home to me as it hadn’t quite before, that believing in the value of intersectionality and actually internalising it to the point where we regularly seek out—and follow through on—ways to put it into practice, are two distinct stages. And despite all of the goodwill in the world, getting from the first to the second and then staying there requires more conscious forethought, introspection and regular evaluation than would ever spring automatically from tacit agreement with the notion.
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Political Caption Competition
When symbolism is as empty as a McDonald’s advert