The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 18th April 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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When National is under attack – Deflect, deflect, deflect!
As I have pointed out in previous blogposts, when threatened with bad headlines or a scandal of some description, National’s automatic defense is generally to default to one of three* deflections;
Blame previous the Labour government
Release story on ‘welfare abuse’
Blame Global Financial Crisis or similar overseas eventThere are plenty of past instances of this kind of strategy.
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Fabricate Review – Basement Theatre
We are witness to scholarly disciplines in a sophisticated and generous performance in Fabricate, by Caitlin Davey, Cushla Roughan, Lydia Connolly-Hiatt, Rodney Tyrelland and Reece Adams. Using innovation to plug gaps in the budget and delving into a collective visual history, it soothes, and it transfers, in its dealings with surfaces.
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Medical cannabis rally and march – Aotea Sq., Sat 23rd April
In NZ patients continue to suffer. The existing criteria are too restrictive, the process is too slow and Sativex – the one pharmaceutical extract that is approved here – is far too expensive. The result is that most doctors are put off applying and, even if they can get Sativex prescribed, most people cannot afford to pay for it.
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That was Then, This is Now #28 – John Key on transparency
that was then, this is now
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Can Corrections Get Anything Right?
The Head Office of Corrections is Mayfair House at 44 The Terrace Wellington. Many frontline Corrections staff, and most prisoners, refer to it as ‘Bullshit House’, much the same as many cops refer to their Wellington headquarters as ‘Bullshit Palace’.
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Political Caption Competition
Political Caption Competition
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 17th April 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Hypocritical narrative blames the victim rather than the cause for economic ‘failings’
Alarmist New Zealand Herald headlines condemned a Housing New Zealand tenant for taking in boarders.