The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 17th August 2016
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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Award winning book miseducates young readers about war
Being the son of Elsie Locke I was interested to see who won the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction at this year’s NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The Elsie Locke Award recognises my late mother’s contribution to children’s literature.
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Dave Macpherson – Public Scrutiny on Mental Health starting to get under Govt’s skin
In perhaps a direct attack on my family, the Report states that “DHB leaders are worried about interest groups who repeatedly call for inspections and enquiries and allegedly run ‘personalised social media campaigns targeting individual clinicians, service leaders and staff’, according to mental health issues reporter Jess McAllen.
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Wellington mayoral candidates support the Living Wage – PSA
Three Wellington mayoral hopefuls say they will ensure Wellington City Council fully adopts the Living Wage at the first candidates’…
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High Time: Why the Greens must rejoin the fight for cannabis law reform
in spite of the public’s readiness for radical reform, the leadership of the two big political parties have either refused to embrace the necessity for change (National) or taken refuge behind the poll results by issuing a cautious endorsement of medicinal cannabis use, while remaining opposed to any broader decriminalisation measures (Labour).
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EXCLUSIVE: Arthur Taylor – why I believe Malcolm Rewa is a Police Informant
Senior Police would have known all about this which is why Police have always had good reason not to have Malcolm Rewa exposed to too many questions. That is why Teina Pora went to prison in the first place and why it has been so hard to get him released.
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Kieran Kelly – It is not “Ridiculous” to Reject Hillary, Part 2: Bride of the Monster
A good argument can be made that voting for Trump or Clinton is essentially exactly the same thing.
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National exploits fudged Statistics NZ unemployment figures
A person job-searching using the internet was “not actively seeking work“. Predictably, at the stroke of a pen, unemployment “fell” over-night from 5.7% to 5.2%.
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Political Caption Competition
Pauline Hansen with her shadow front bench
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 15th August 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
