The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 6th 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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Dave Macpherson – At Last – we hear from Mental Health Commissioner on Suicides….
Not to be put off by the years-long public debate about this country leading youth suicide statistics from the wrong end, Commissioner Kevin Allan has bravely gone where no-one employed by the previous Government had hitherto dared to tread – he has actually (wait for it…) recommended a 10% reduction in suicides target! That’s correct – not zero, not halving it, not even the mild 20% reduction that the current Health Minister suggested while in opposition – but a nice, fat, round 10%.
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Dr Liz Gordon – The planets align
Avid readers of this blog (such as there are) should know that my three current topmost concerns are gender equality, education and justice. And, just for once, real political progress has begun (perhaps just a stake in the ground) on all three this week.
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Political Caption Competition
The image on the left from Campus is awful. The image on the right from Campus is terrifying
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 5th 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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Open letter to Trade Minister David Parker
Thank you for your invitation to join you in Chile on 8th March, at my own expense, for the signing of the resurrected Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that your own party in Opposition said was seriously flawed.
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Without even small environmental wins, justice is a distant dream
As the ‘left’ moves to the centre, I find myself on the further margins of the spectrum. Here I am, left of Labour and greener than the Greens, looking for everyday solutions as well as system level change to solve the problems of our era. I can’t see how incremental and conservative capitalist prescriptions can ever be the remedy for environmental collapse, economic inequality or social exclusion at their present scale.
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Political Caption Competition
Seven Sharp – broadcast from inside TVNZ’s womb
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 4th 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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Simon Bridges likely to treat Māori the way John Key treated state house tenants
I think having a Maori political leader is a very positive and hopeful step only if that leader uses his position and influence to dispel destructive stereotypes about Māori – not perpetuate them.