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…
Author: The Daily Blog
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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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Stolen Holiday Pay must be paid back – the Government must act
The truth is there is nothing very complicated about the calculation of annual leave. Leave was to be calculated weekly and when it was taken it should be valued at the greater of the worker’s current wage or their yearly average. This had been true since 1948.
What was clarified in the 2003 Act was that if it was difficult to determine what an ordinary week was, for example, because they worked variable hours each week, then the worker should get the higher of their yearly average or the average of the last four weeks. This was explained in the Act in minute detail. No mistaken understanding could be taken from the plain language.
It has become clear that almost no major employer or payroll provider did this simple calculation. Many also did not include regular allowances that should have been.
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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.