The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 18th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Dr Liz Gordon – The pursuit of happiness
I doubt if Judge Joe Watts would have stopped the rampage of violence against women and girls demonstrated by the Howse brothers, if he had properly convicted and sentenced Peter that day. But it would have been another brick in the wall, wouldn’t it?
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Mark Mitchell – Flights of fancy?!
Former Defence Minister; failed National Party leader aspirant; one-time mercenary-for-hire, and current (for the moment) National defence spokesman, Mark Mitchell, may have opened a 44-gallon drum-of-worms with his assertion that Coalition Defence Minister, Ron Mark, has been “using the Air Force as a personal taxi service”.
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What price is dolphin protection? Election donations? Conflicts of Interest?
In 2016, Stuart Nash proposed a ten-year moratorium on commercial fishing within waters 50m deep. He said the video monitoring programme needed to be rolled out more quickly, that the (National) government wasn’t doing enough. By 2017 after the formation of the Labour – New Zealand First coalition government, he has suggested doing away with electronic monitoring altogether and has proposed nothing credible or timely in its place.
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Political Caption Competition
Judith goes lower for clear access to the throat
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 17th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Govt inquiry into spy agency should include MBIE – Greenpeace
Greenpeace has asked the State Services Commission to expand its investigation into the use of Thompson and Clark by a…
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Lyttelton port strike action to proceed from next Tuesday – Rail And Maritime Transport Union
Lyttelton port workers dismayed at failure of mediation: strike action to proceed from next Tuesday night Mediation between the the…
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Largest petition in five years handed in to Parliament – SAFE
112,844 people have signed SAFE’s petition to ban the use of cruel farrowing crates, believed to be the largest petition…
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Operation Painter: Findings in privacy investigation – Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says a Police checkpoint in 2016 unlawfully and unfairly collected personal information, harming some of the…