GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – You don’t get to risk my grandson’s future.
Just a head’s up. Climate Change deniers don’t get to post on my page.
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: John Tamihere – Our babies deserve better
This is not the city or country I want.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Drug reform
When you are in Government you can either continue doing things that don’t work but make the angry happy, or you can challenge counter productive policy and push for change.
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MUST READ GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – Throwing my weight around
I am a poet/creative writer. I don’t claim to know facts or statistics. This piece is offered purely as a creative response to recent (and historic) events, speaking to how women and girls are forced to navigate the World throughout their lives.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Bok Tour reflection 2018
Yes, the tour had a profound effect on my life.
Initially I couldn’t give damn about the Tour. I had better things to than traipse around the country looking after rugby players
But defeat of the police at Hamilton was a humiliation felt by the police and I was no exception. I wanted revenge. Therefore, I wanted the Tour to continue so the police could redeem.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Why? What’s it to you?
“Well, actually…I like children!”
This is the response African-American novelist and poet Alice Walker gave when she was asked why she wanted to go to Gaza.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Calm down Duncan Garner
To be honest, I haven’t seen such hateful commentary by ordinary Kiwis in a long time, and that deeply concerns me as a New Zealander more than it does as a Māori because we have to find ways to accept one another and live together in this country.
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GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Education
Teachers and our kids deserve better. Next to being a parent, teaching is the toughest and most undervalued societal role. Teachers deserve more. They nurture the mind’s which become our nations future.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – Keeping Jails full to honour SERCO contract
I’ve attached an article below. It’s American and a bit dated but it rings true in this country TODAY. Read it and you’ll understand how Serco and our own government have screwed us. Then join us in the MARCH ON PARLIAMENT 1PM 6 DEC 2018 to ask the question …
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – The position of Māori Climate Commissioner
Have been asked a lot lately about how this Office was set up. So have written background piece –
This Office was set up as a result of the experiences of Tā Mark Solomon and Dame Tariana with climate change on their iwi.