Guest Blog: Ross Meurant – Why I penned this book
The book is a fiction. It is not autobiographical. But my exposure to the environments which I write about, “equipped me well”, to invent fiction.
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Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Suzie Dawson – NOT IN MY NAME: ACADEMICS PUBLICLY ATTACKING UN TORTURE RAPPORTEUR
I am a survivor of rape, gang rape and the abusive police process I was subjected to when I reported it and I am fed up with watching sexual violence being used as a cover for political attacks on Julian Assange, his colleagues and his supporters.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What is the purpose of an economy?
Last week RNZ reported on two stories that should give us all pause to think about who we are , what we stand for and the ACTUAL rather than the pretend economic policy by which our country is run .
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Civics & History should be compulsory in schools
The clip is just 12 seconds long but I post it in the hope our government and the RNZ will show similar courage in demanding better behaviour from our banks – especially from 4 big foreign owned ones who have taken the lion’s share of the New Zealand market.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – the irony of listening to Auckland Mayor Phil Goff on Morning Report today railing against Mayoral Candidate John Tamihere
Is this the same Phil Goff who served in both the Lange and Clark neoliberal governments?
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Asteroid Alert!
If this prediction is accurate, earth could be in for a bit of a shake up within the life time of many readers on Daily Blog, today!
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Housing 101
Yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle in which Phil Twyford was moved sideways is at least some recognition by the Ardern government that their housing policy is failing. So if they’re looking around for some fresh ideas here’s my quick and busy Facebook Fix for Friday suggestions .
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – A Life and Death Decision
David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill passed it’s second reading yesterday. It now goes to the Committee of the Whole House where all members of Parliament consider it part by part and have the chance to debate it in detail.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – 360 Degrees solution to US Schoolyard Bully Boy
Glug, glug, glug” – that’s the sound a sinking battleship makes, according to Paul Keating, who deployed the sound effect to devastating effect on Wednesday to underline his argument that the United States could not expect to dominate China in the South China Sea.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Banking On ‘Business As Usual’
I heard Finance Minister Grant Robertson say on Morning Report today that he ” wasn’t expecting another financial crisis any time soon”.
Well, he and his advisors may not be expecting it, but surely one of the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis was that being so locked into maintaining ‘business as usual’ means we often fail to ask whether the usual way of doing business is the BEST way of doing it.