Author: The Daily Blog

Five years ago, the Brian Tamaki inspired Man Up programme was born out of a desire from prison inmates themselves to seek positive change in their lives. Its reach and its success have grown in leaps and bounds since then.

“There is no alternative.” That’s what we were told when Labour introduced neoliberal economics into New Zealand back in 1984. It was a lie. There was – and is -always an alternative.

Instead of spending vast amounts of money to make our roads bigger and wider just to clog them up again with more and more cars -why don’t we make public transport free and charge people a premium to taking their car into the city?

If his ISIS Group were responsible for Sri Lanka’s week of terrorist chaos, and if this Group decide that retribution is the key to redemption, it would (in my view) be unwise of NZ Guardians, to ignore the possibility if not probability, that Aotearoa would be an easy target and revenge for the massacre of 50 Muslims in Christchurch.