Petrol prices last straw for home support workers – E Tu
Home support workers are fed-up and quitting their jobs, blaming soaring petrol bills, precarious working hours, and poor working conditions….
Year: 2018
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“Being Treated like slaves”: Why migrant exploitation exists
Recently Unite Union discovered a case of migrant exploitation where the workers talked about being “treated like slaves”.
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SAFE nominates misleading ‘PigCare’ label for highest award in misleading advertising
SAFE is nominating New Zealand Pork’s ‘PigCare’ label for the 2018 Bad Taste Food Awards, in recognition of its deception of…
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Jami-Lee Ross – National Affairs and the Public Interest
Selwyn Manning is the founding editor of Scoop, The Daily Blog and is now editor at Evening Report. He was a press secretary in the Helen Clark Government and one of New Zealand’s most respected political commentators. His investigation into the sectioning of Jami-Lee Ross raises serious and dark questions that require immediate analysis.
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Political Caption Competition
David Parker: Ummm, I get my hand back after shaking yours right? Saudi Foreign Minister: Maybe.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 27th October 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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One year of the new Government: The faded hope of a hollow promise – grading Labour, NZ First & Greens
It’s been a year of the new Government. How have Labour, NZ First and the Greens fared? What have they achieved? Have they managed to live up to the excitement of the win or have they become tripped up by their own inexperience and short comings?
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One year of the new Government: The faded hope of a hollow promise – grading the issues
The inability of the Government to force real compromise from the neoliberal bureaucracy and the Wellington elites means sweet fuck all has really changed for the poorest and weakest amongst us, and while there is truth to the argument that it will take a few terms to counter the under funding of National’s 9 years in power, that can only stay true for so long.
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We desperately need to get our MPs stoned
How the living Christ can these people be trusted to solve a major social issue like cannabis reform if they’ve never smoked it or it’s some dim memory from their distant past?
It’s like asking the Pope for sex advice!
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On National’s Yet-Unsinking Poll Numbers
Thinking about the National Party’s recent woes – there’s a funny sort of … I guess you’d say “symmetry” to a lot of happenings politics; and not simply in the sense that they occur “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce”.