GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Who rules this country?
Who rules this country? The elected representatives or the Bureaucrats?
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Good Cop. Bad Cop
Yesterday I learned that Blogger Martyn Bradbury (pictured) has not only had to contend with his personal bank accounts being searched without a warrant but that the police are now seeking a closed hearing of the Human Rights Tribunal to present evidence it does not want made public.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Simon Bridges and the Minimum Wage Increase
Of the remaining 108,983 small businesses with between 1 and 19 employees, only a small portion of them employ anyone on the minimum wage at all because many need higher skilled people with experience.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Barry Soper’s April Fools joke
Barry did his best to fool us all that the Beehive had forgotten Beijing this morning.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Head coverings and Du PLessis Allan
As some of you know, Heather Du Plessis Allan gave oxygen to the notion that PM Jacinda Ardern should not have worn a hijab because it just oppressed women – in some countries where it is law.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – Greens Toothless and Divided
I felt sorry for James Shaw last Wednesday morning. Guyon Espiner was like a lion with his head in his mouth, and all Minister Shaw could do was wave his hands. Guyon is right, the Green Party have been ineffectual advocating for the environment as part of this coalition. But it isn’t Minister Shaw’s fault. He is an incredibly smart and hardworking Minister with absolutely no bargaining power. And that lack of bargaining power is thanks to his own party members tying his hands.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Once Upon A Time
Eventually, you have to muster the courage to do the right thing, or say what needs to be said about what is wrong in an organisation, however painful and difficult, and sometimes dangerous, that might be.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Facebook needs a “report” button
While it was good to read of Facebook’s banning white nationalist content from its platforms the company needs to be more proactive on ALL hate speech and vile content videos.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Claire Trevett’s remarkable blindness
It’s hard to not say something when a deputy chief political editor for the NZ Herald writes that Helen Clark failed to do anything about gun reform laws, and even NZ First who have been in opposition before October 2017….but leaves out the big blue elephant in the room.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Turn that frown upside down Mike
Mike Hosking wrote to his “miserable bugger” audience on NewsTalk ZB today that with GDP at 0.6% growth for the last quarter and with an annual growth barely above 2% , money was increasingly not going to come from the once “Rock Star Economy” to pay the “useless”.