CPAG’s Assoc Prof Mike O’Brien awarded honour
CPAG’s Assoc Prof Mike O’Brien named on Queen’s Birthday Honour list Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) warmly congratulates long-serving executive…
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Northcote turnout continues to be huge – Labour Party
With just a few days of early voting to go, Northcote Labour candidate Shanan Halbert is heartened by the huge…
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Plastic pledge is rubbish – Greenpeace
Greenpeace warns that today’s announcement of the “Beat Plastic Pollution” declaration is an industry-led false solution for tackling the scourge…
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Housing NZ’s chief executive Andrew McKenzie has to go – State Housing Action
The State Housing Action Network is calling on the government to sack Housing New Zealand Chief Executive Andrew McKenzie. McKenzie…
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – PALESTINIAN LIVES MATTER !!!
Another unarmed Palestinian shot by a heavily armed military that boasts that they know exactly what they are doing. She’s not the first to be killed , not even the first woman, not the first paramedic. Maybe the first woman paramedic to be targeted.
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Political Caption Competition
Who Farted?
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 5th 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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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – National’s contamination hysteria aimed at state tenants
We had state tenants kicked out of state homes living at our local marae when Te Puea opened their doors to the homeless in 2016. We saw the impact of this policy, and it was needlessly mean. Grandmothers having kids taken from them, mothers and children being forced to sleep on the floor, vulnerable families put through needless stress and harm.
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Dave Macpherson: What is it about mental illness that causes the ‘authorities’ to be missing in action?
Missing persons cases cause flurries of action and public conjecture from time to time; searches quite rightly swing into action the moment police and neighbours hear of missing children, or a senior that has disappeared from the local old folks home. But when the missing person is known to be mentally unwell, the concern is muted, and often the action is delayed and ineffective.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Housing crises
As you drive in from Heathrow Airport to London, it is not long until you see, not far away, a tall, dark building. As you come nearer, you see it is the burned-out husk of a multi-storey tower block – Grenfell Tower, which burned almost exactly one year ago, causing the deaths of 72 people.