Lifewise response to Minister of Children’s vision of fewer children in state care.
Alleluia! Lifewise completely endorses Minister Tracey Martin’s vision of fewer children in state care. In the annual update on Oranga…
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5 Top Online Pastimes In New Zealand
New Zealand is no different from the rest of the world in the respect that more and more parts of…
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Legalising cannabis in Canada is good for public health – NZ Drug Foundation
AnchorCanada’s landmark decision to introduce a strictly regulated legal cannabis market is a public health win, and something the New…
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Protest at US Embassy
If you oppose Donald Trump’s racism against migrants, the best thing you can do is to join the struggle here in Aotearoa against exploitation and deportation. Many church leaders, Unions, cultural groups and MPs of parties now in Government visited sanctuary to support our students before their deportation. Now is the time for them to honour their pledges and bring our students back.
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The Many Mendacities of Mr Bridges – The ‘Claytons’ Apology
When National’s Simon Bridges, fronted up on Radio NZ on 5 June, he apparently apologised for his role in the unjust evictions of 300 state house tenants for meth-testing results that have been shown by Chief Science Advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, as bogus.
Bridges said;
“I’m sorry that the advice we got was wrong and has made this situation what it is.”
Except – it’s not an apology for the wrongful evictions at all. It’s a lamentation that “the advice we got was wrong”.
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Political Caption Competition
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 23rd June 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Emotion, Not Reason, Is Driving New Zealanders’ Attitudes Towards Crime And Punishment
It was the famous English jurist, Sir William Blackstone, who said: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” It is perhaps the greatest achievement of New Zealand’s Sensible Sentencing Trust that the present reality of dozens of innocent persons spending months in remand cells for offences they will later be acquitted of does not enrage the New Zealand public. Their motto would appear to be: “It is better that ten innocent people remain locked-up than that one guilty person re-offends on bail.”
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Political Caption Competition
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 22nd June 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.