GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – A Truth-Based Legal Revolution Statement
Thou shalt speak truth to power— even when the halls of power call it disruption. even when the cost is…
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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: Ian Powell – Gender Pay Inequity Perpetuation and Venality
On 6 May the Government ignited a political earthquake with its unexpected blindsiding decision to ram through parliamentary urgency the…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – A Gram a Day Keeps the Cancer Away? King Charles, Cannabis, and the Inconvenient Cure
In 1975, U.S. government-funded scientists set out to prove that cannabis caused cancer. They failed. Instead, Munson et al. published…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – That Nicola Willis op ed defending pay parity ambush
Nicola Willis claims the 2025 Pay Equity Amendment was about fiscal responsibility. But it wasn’t. It was a tactical betrayal:…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – A timely call for a social contract in health
The term ‘social contract’ is occasionally used in Aotearoa New Zealand and in many other parts of the planet. It…
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GUEST BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Suzie Dawson – Kiwibank thumb their nose at the Banking Ombudsman
Last Friday, Kiwibank ‘debanked’ me, unceremoniously shutting down both my personal and business) accounts without so much as even a…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – NZ is not poor. We are being plundered.
The neoliberal bamboozle. How it robs us, and how we build back our nation. “People who have been bamboozled seldom…
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – Beyond Punishment: A Swedish-Inspired Approach to Corrections Reform in New Zealand
Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell’s proposal to scrap short prison sentences in favour of longer ones is an approach that ignores…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Widening gap between health system leadership and health workforce
When I reflect on my involvement in Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system over the past three decades plus, mainly as…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – The dirtiest of politics and a tale of two MPs cloaked in hypocrisy
The recent contrasting response of two different ‘controversies’ involving two politically different MPs are covered by a cloak of hypocrisy….