The neoliberal seductiveness of euthanasia
Self-assisted suicide – which is what we are really discussing here, not the far more sterilised ‘euthanasia’, will become a means to a neoliberal end in NZ.
Martyn Bradbury
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Pop-up Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 5 Stars (Don Brash would scream)
I am a sucker for Shakespeare. I love the plays, the language and the re-interpretation each re-telling can create.
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Open letter to the Honourable Carmel Sepuloni – end the horror of the neoliberal welfare state
If you are serious about changing welfare in NZ Carmel, then end the punitive debt and crushing punishment that is dealt out to those on Welfare. The bullshit need for the disabled to send in letters annually for disabilities that can’t be ‘cured’. The penalty interest rates put on welfare overpayments, the culture of fear that alienates and the staff who refuse to inform beneficiaries of what their actual rights and entitlements are.
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Why Climate Change could politically splinter the Greens and Labour
The current Green Party are locked into middle class identity politics and middle class environmentalism while Labour are too frightened to use the power of the State to intervene well beyond the timid measures currently being proposed.
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Sweet Jesus – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
I never believed it would happen – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
Her latest column is right.
Kinda.
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Why should we trust SIS, GCSB & Police with more power when they can’t use their current powers legally?
We have Police and Intelligence Agencies stepping well outside the law and not getting punished for it.
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In 9 weeks, Labour has done more to eradicate child poverty than National did in 9 years
This is a great start, but to truly change we need a new Government who will use the looming economic meltdown as an opportunity to borrow and invest directly into the social infrastructure to handle the jump in poverty that economic recession will cause…
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We will miss Mike Hosking at 7pm the way we miss cancer
I think Mike appeals to those who already have and his quaint musings on working hard and not helping beneficiaries because that only enables them when you feed them slips effortlessly into the cultural norms rich people convince themselves of when they have to step over beggars to get into Louis Vuitton stores.
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Why I do not welcome euthanasia in New Zealand
When I look at the horror our mental health system, prison system & welfare systems have become for the most vulnerable via chronic underfunding & indifferent staff – I fear how euthanasia will mutate in that cruel environment.
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Chippy chops National Standards
This was never about the educational needs and simplification of explaining grades to parents, it was always about building the infrastructural data to allow league tables.