The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 3rd July 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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The British Labour debate is really about policy
Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader represented a big shift to the left in the British Labour Party. But from day one the mostly right-wing Labour MPs have been plotting to get rid of him.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Prison Suicide Stats
It’s an alarming statistic and I can well believe it .
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Government Continues Fudging Statistics To Hide Failure
In many countries around the world, statistics about things like the rates of unemployment or crime are used by the government of the day to demonstrate changes in those areas. In New Zealand, by contrast, changes in statistics (as in, changes in what the statistics actually represent) are used instead to obscure a lack of improvement in same.
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Brexit result shows democratic rejection of neoliberalism
Brexit has shone daylight on a crisis that’s been brewing for several decades. The utopian proclamation by Francis Fukuyama about the ‘end of history’, in the heyday of globalisation, has succumbed to the reality that paradigms come and go.
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Waatea 5th Estate – The horror of Kathryn’s Story
Joining us tonight for a special discussion on the worst case of abuse on a beneficiary by a Government Department I’ve ever seen…
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Government must intervene to help Lifeline continue – PSA
Lifeline must not become the latest casualty of New Zealand’s mental health crisis, the Public Service Association says. The crisis…
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Christchurch Convention Centre shambles proves PPPs have no place in NZ – PSA
Taxpayers will foot the whole bill for yet another failed public-private partnership, the Public Service Association says – and the…
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Kathryn’s Story – Government spends over $100K pursuing beneficiary – CPAG
Kathryn’s Story records the life of a mother, grieving the death of her son at the hands of an ex-partner, who is still being hounded for debt repayment by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD).
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“Kathryn’s Story” highlights the need for major welfare overhaul
In August 2015 I sat through a whole day of hearing in the High Court on this sad case. What a convoluted sets of arguments were expounded to justify the punitive approach taken by the Crown. That was the latest court event in a 15 year saga in which an unwell beneficiary is being pursued for the repayment of $20 a week.