GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – Watchdog or Lapdog? Time to Reassess the IPCA’s Role in New Zealand’s Democracy
In a democracy, oversight is not optional, it’s essential. The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) was created to ensure that…
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – Our Government is wrong to attack the UN Special Rapporteur for doing his job.
Deputy Prime Minister, David Seymour, has been ticked off for responding to Dr Albert Kwokwo Barume, UN Special Rapporteur on…
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GUEST BLOG – Redacted Just Aired Talk Liberation’s Mission: Bringing Ethics to The Internet
Here’s a quick update on Talk Liberation’s recent success: we took Islandsbanki to court—and scored a critical victory. With our…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Who benefits from outsourcing planned surgery: follow the funding
I still remember metaphorically sitting at the knee of legendary union leader Bill Andersen while listening to him opine pearls…
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Silence is Compliance
Like Jim Bolger did, over the ’81 Springbok tour – one day everyone will claim that they were always against…
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GUEST BLOG: Talk Liberation – 8 Ways Big Brother Is Gorging Itself On Your Data This Week
In this edition: US Government Using Palantir to Build Mass Surveillance System Tinder Rolls Out Mandatory Face Scans for New…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – ‘Slash and burn’ increases poor health system decision-making: witness maternity and gynaecology
In Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system there are 36 branches of vocational (specialist) medicine registered by the Medical Council. These…
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GUEST BLOG: Talk Liberation – Bank Staff Must Testify: Talk Liberation, WikiLeaks Lawyers Win Key Concession in Icelandic Court
Represented by WikiLeaks’ Icelandic lawyers in an epic court showdown three years in the making, on June 19th independent software…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – NZs curious case of corrupt self destruction
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Western economists rushed in. Promising prosperity through free markets and deregulation, they instead engineered the…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – How to justify 400,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza: Ask ‘Zelda’
I have published three previous blog posts on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza by means of genocide. Ethnic…