The real problem with our Cannabis laws that no Politician or Party is actually addressing
The politicians were wrong on cannabis all along and watching them bicker amongst themselves while refusing to admit they were wrong sickens me.
Martyn Bradbury
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The terrible misreading of political populism as white supremacy in the Trump & Brexit results & why Bishop Brian Tamaki will fail to make it happen in NZ
Yes the Coalition Party will sound like alt-right populism, but it won’t embody the economic security those working classes who have been damaged by neoliberalism are seeking. Trump attacked the TPPA and Brexit focused on economic sovereignty, the Bishop is just promising more divisiveness.
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Well, well, well – more evidence of white supremacy intelligence failure
Isn’t it sad that not one of these organisations can spy on white supremacists with the ease they spy on Greenpeace, Nicky Hager, Māori protesting big oil, the Green Party, the MANA Party and Muslims?
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We will spend $208m buying back guns, but not $35m to support victims mental suffering?
This exclusive by Newsroom is not only an outstanding piece of journalism, but it raises serious questions about the motives of not allowing the victims of the Christchurch atrocity to access ACC payments…
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The Toxic culture of WINZ & MSD laid bare
Someone needs to suggest kindly to Carmel Sepuloni that attacking an organisation with the mana of Auckland Action Against Poverty is deeply troubling as their advocacy against the toxicity of MSD is essential to this debate.
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The plastic bag ban is virtue signalling garbage
The low, low, low, low threshold of ‘transformative’ that so many on the Left are prepared to accept is why change is glacial.
The time for ‘it’s a step in the right direction’ was in 1980. Leaps are required now.
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Waatea News Column: Latest infant death being used in Oranga Tamariki propaganda campaign
I think the manner in which dead infants are being used to justify the deeply flawed child uplift policy by Oranga Tamariki is a new low in this depressing and increasingly ugly debate.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Berm parking, Westland Milk & Chinese big money & plastic bag ban
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Berm parking, Westland Milk & Chinese big money & plastic bag ban
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Cough-Cough – So in 6 months there were 300 instances of neglect or abuse of kids in state care
Don’t tell me that we weaponised CYFs uplift policy in 2016 and went about removing as many children big data algorithms tell us will be a long term welfare cost without resourcing the services we will need to send those costly welfare units (children) to?
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So beneficiaries queuing at 2am in the morning represents the new politics of kindness does it?
The truth is that Government has been hopeless at managing the neoliberal welfare agencies to be anything other than a stick, and have come far too late to the game in their first term to remedy these corruptions of social policy. The only hope to force real change is to fund groups like AAAP to be advocacy agents for beneficiaries (effectively unionise the beneficiaries) and also fund AAAP to prepare annual reports that are critical of WINZ.