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Five years ago, the Brian Tamaki inspired Man Up programme was born out of a desire from prison inmates themselves to seek positive change in their lives. Its reach and its success have grown in leaps and bounds since then.
“There is no alternative.” That’s what we were told when Labour introduced neoliberal economics into New Zealand back in 1984. It was a lie. There was – and is -always an alternative.
Instead of spending vast amounts of money to make our roads bigger and wider just to clog them up again with more and more cars -why don’t we make public transport free and charge people a premium to taking their car into the city?
If his ISIS Group were responsible for Sri Lanka’s week of terrorist chaos, and if this Group decide that retribution is the key to redemption, it would (in my view) be unwise of NZ Guardians, to ignore the possibility if not probability, that Aotearoa would be an easy target and revenge for the massacre of 50 Muslims in Christchurch.
Tired doctors are more likely to make mistakes so it is in all of our interests to support them as they resist the DHB’s trying to break their collective bargaining power
I totally reject any and all forms of religion. I had enough of that – force fed as a kid at stage of life when one is supposed to believe what the grown-ups say. Today I have no problem with any religion as long as they who subscribe, keep their activity to themselves.
You will remember how hot it was during the 2017/18 and 2018/19 summers, It was even hotter for prisoners confined for most of the day [some 23 hours out of the 24] in a small cell, often sharing that small space with a cellmate. Well the guards, who weren’t locked in the cells so suffered nowhere near as much, got slushy machines….at taxpayer expense.
If we want to be a more tolerant society we need to demonstrate our willingness to achieve that goal by at least legislating for a fairer distribution of the nation’s wealth.
I may well be time for our policy makers involved in strategic planning for the best security possible for New Zealand, to consider sending some of our people to complete courses in Russia – rather than send then to FBI courses and end up with raids on Dot Com being perpetrated on behalf of a foreign power.
Yesterday Matthew Craig challenged on Facebook a sentence in my last blog in which I stated the current Labour led coalition ‘has no intention whatsoever of doing anything significant to reduce the gap between haves and the have nots’ . He then offered “ an incomplete list of just some of the things this Labour led coalition has achieved/is working on, in order to ‘reduce the gaps’, and help make this country a better and fairer place to live in”