Level 2 is the end of the first chapter, so curb your enthusiasm
Talk that the economy will ‘bounce back’ seems inanely optimistic to me
Month: May 2020
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – WHAT THE HELL is going on in Auckland Women’s Prison [ARWCF]?
Even in low security [LS2] prisoners were locked at 4 pm Saturday, 9 May,and not unlocked until 3.30 pm Sunday. [Locked again at 4 pm] so only had half an hour out of cell for exercise/phonecalls etc]. They were unlocked at 8.30 am this morning and will be locked again at 9 am for the whole day meaning they wont be unlocked until tomorrow morning.
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Does NZME’s last gasp for newspaper monopoly spell doom for Stuff?
Clearly NZME knows something that the rest of the market doesn’t.
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WINZ cruelty vs MSD malice vs Housing NZ meth hysteria vs Corrections spite: what’s worse, what’s the same?
We have a contempt for the vulnerable with official agencies that seem to delight in the abuse of rights.
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Matthew Hooton’s Selectivity
A good communicator and propagandist uses the pretence of reasoned argument to obscure their ulterior motives and manipulative persuasion techniques.
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The two Jacinda’s and hoping for a radicalism befitting our age
‘Courageous Jacinda’, when catastrophe has allowed compassionate leadership and Jacinda has taken the country with her. And ‘Cautious Jacinda’, when it’s come to delivering on Labour’s initial policy promises and hopes and goals.
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Justice for those unlawfully denied benefits due to redundancy pay
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the Government to proactively backpay people who have been unlawfully denied a benefit because they were receiving redundancy pay
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“We have put them on ice” – the climate crisis, child poverty, mental wellbeing & lifting Maori/Pacific incomes
Once again the most helplessly exposed of our citizens – those locked in generational deprivation in a land of plenty – have been sent to the back of the queue.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Nakba Day
May 15, Nakba Day, is an important date for the Palestinian people. It’s the day when Palestinians commemorate their history and their culture.
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Political Caption Competition
One is called James and the other one is called Marama and I ride them both.