Delight as hospital meals brought back in-house at Canterbury DHB – E Tu
E tū is delighted with the Canterbury DHB’s decision not to renew its food service contract with Compass and to…
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Poverty link to risk of child abuse cannot be ignored – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) supports and endorses the open letter by the Human Rights Commission calling on the Prime Minister to initiate an independent inquiry into the abuse of people held in State care, in order to “identify the systemic issues that permitted this to occur and the broader impact of these events on our communities.”
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Chris Trotter: Dorkland, Dorkland Über Alles!
PLEASE NOTE: This is satire. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to real events, is entirely accidental.
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Social housing demand up 49% since 2015 – CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says the Government must urgently deliver a wider range of affordable housing solutions as a…
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Willie Jackson: Kaupapa Maori is the new Kiwi socialism
for me, Kaupapa Māori can be the solution to much of the damage the free market has caused our communities and wider society. Instead of the ‘me first, me first’, mantra of the market, the communal values of Kaupapa Māori calls for a holistic view of the individual and their place within the group.
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Suppressed report blames lack of leadership and planning for housing crisis – Labour Party
A report the Government tried to keep secret blames National’s lack of leadership on housing and Ministers’ failure to develop…
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 2nd March 2017
5: Lorde Just Lit Up Installations Across Auckland With Her New Lyrics
4: Trump Wants You to Think All the Immigrants He’ll Deport Are Criminals. They’re Not.
3: Forced evacuation of east Aleppo was war crime, says UN
2: UN: Both sides committed war crimes in Syria’s Aleppo
1: Bernie Sanders Slams Trump for Ignoring Climate Change, Income Inequality & Voter Suppression -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 2nd March 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Barry Coates: Lock them up
The government has started the election year with a tough on crime message. More police on the beat and more prisons. The government plans to spend $1 billion on a massive prison-building programme in a country that already imprisons a greater proportion of its people than all but a few OECD countries.
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Mike Lee: Auckland’s dirty secret – can we handle the truth?
Sewage pollution of the inner Waitemata harbour is a direct consequence of Auckland’s disproportionate growth. The failure to provide for sufficient basic sanitation infrastructure is something the Auckland Council and the government driving these growth policies would rather the public know as little as possible about.