Conference to develop the pathway for indigenous rights – Human Rights Commission
The Conference on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will provide a needed pathway forward for indigenous…
Author: The Daily Blog
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Response to Paula Bennett recent statements
No one wants to see meth in our community, no one wants to see organised crime flourish – but Paula Bennett’s absurd suggestions that we allow Police to conduct unreasonable searches on ‘gang members’ has so many loopholes and counter productive outcomes it smacks of desperation rather than intelligent and well thought out social policy to solve complex issues.
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Some People: Paula Bennett And National’s Tribal Instincts
The Police Minister knows that the most effective means of breaking the gangs’ power would be to remove the criminal stigma from unwise drug use. But, like all Police Ministers, Paula Bennett knows that the drug laws are not there to end the misuse of drugs. They are there to create a nether world of criminality and addiction against which the situation of “normal” people may be favourably compared.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 5th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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606 Pairs of Shoes – Dave Macpherson
Two days after two hikoi of 579 pairs of shoes (each) set off simultaneously from Cape Reinga and Bluff, bound for Parliament’s hallowed steps, the Chief Coroner announced the latest suicide figures for the 2017 financial year: 606.
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National Party sacrifices human rights to politics
Bill English and Paula Bennett admitted the new powers would stretch human rights laws, but would only apply to serious criminals who had ‘fewer human rights than others’ anyway, clearly misunderstanding human rights. We should be wary when the Prime Minister and his Deputy are prepared to trade off these rights as a pawn in desperate election politics.
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Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (toru)
The leaking of Winston Peter’s superannuation over-payment is well known. Also known is that Ministers Paula Bennett and Anne Tolley were briefed by Ministry of Social Development and State Services Commission, respectively, on Peters’ private details regarding the over-payment before it was leaked to the media and made public knowledge.
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Squatting statute of the Environment Minister Nick Smith is protest art at its best
Seven years on, Environment Canterbury (Ecan) is yet to return to full democracy but surely its chief executive Bill Bayfield can at least pretend democracy matters by not rejecting an artistic expression of a legitimate protest.
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Political Caption Competition
Let them eat Paninis
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 4th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.