Waitakere Licensing Trust could regulate cannabis like alcohol
New Zealand’s Liquor Licensing Trusts are a hangover from the days of prohibition and the temperance movement but provide a possible template for cannabis law reform.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Dave Macpherson – There’s a fair bit of money to be made in mental health (or how the system is designed to defeat the ‘little people’)….
As the various lawyers and other legal types have jostled over the preliminaries ahead of the inquest into our son’s death while in the care of Waikato DHB 18 months ago, I’ve reflected on what a lucrative business mental health can be – for some.
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Political Caption Competition
The four horsemen of the neoliberal apocalypse
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 8th September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Dropping the Ball, or Saving the Game? A Response to Fran O’Sullivan
THE DEEP ANXIETY of the “Free Trade” lobby was on full display in this morning’s NZ Herald (7/9/16). Fran O’Sullivan, that most indefatigable of the Herald’s free trade advocates, was so moved by the uncertainty currently surrounding the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that she devoted a good chunk of her business column to the global fight against protectionism.
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Expose: Winston Peters; the 1997 speeches; and neo-liberal tendencies
in a speech made in 1997, when Peters was Treasurer in the National-NZ First Coalition Government, he told the NBR Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Government to Business Forum that he would be pursuing conservative fiscal management; supporting an “open, internationally competitive economy”; lower taxes; and a de-regulated market.
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Political Caption Competition
Does homeless mean they don’t have a holiday mansion in Hawaii?
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 7th September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Pacific Climate Projects Slammed in New Report – Oxfam
The New Zealand Government is giving too many resources to renewable energy plans in the Pacific at the expense of…
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Employer greed driving record immigration numbers
Employer greed, not worker laziness, driving record immigration numbers – union A union representing working people in the wood industry…
