GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Rat shit in prison food
Last week Daniel’s lunch arrived with rat droppings in it. His request for a replacement was refused and he told me. I advised him to lodge a formal complaint, which he did.
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GUEST BLOG: City Vision – South Auckland holds the key to the Entrust Election
Wealthier areas of Auckland traditionally have a much higher voter turnout than other parts of Auckland benefiting C&R (National Party aligned candidates) in the Entrust Election. The daily voting document returns as at 19 October showed the Remuera area at 11.5% compared to the area around Manukau at just over 6%. Fortunately there is still time to vote. There are important community issues at stake.
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GUEST BLOG: City Vision – Happy Labour Day
Please let your networks know that there is still time to vote – voting documents need to be in the post box ASAP to arrive in time for election day on Friday 25 October.
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GUEST BLOG: 44year old mum – my first experience of Parliament
I came to the conclusion that if we lowered the standard in school and only expected our kids to behave to the level of maturity of our MPs then school would be a heck of a lot easier for our special kids. In the mere hour I was there multiple MPs left the chambers for short times ….. we expect 6 year olds to go to the toilet in break times so surely the people discussing issues that impact real lives could do likewise!
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – RACISM STILL RULES
The best answer gets an iceblock. The brainiest answer gets the wrapper.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Latest updates on double bunking legal challenge
Corrections only gave me an hours notice of the AVL High Court callover at 9.30am today where Justice Lang would hear arguments from myself and the Crown on timetabling of disclosures and the Hearing on the “double bunking at Waikeria” case
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Creepy McCreep Pants aka Jami-Lee Ross leaves parliament today – Darren Watson
Creepy McCreep Pants aka Jami-Lee Ross leaves parliament today. So I’ve knocked up a quick wee video to say goodbye.
Bye!
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Better Red than Dead
Capitalism is on its last legs and can only survive by making us, the vast majority of working people the world over, pay for it by giving up our livelihoods and our lives. For that reason, we have to get over our magical thinking that capitalism can be saved from itself, and fight for survival socialism.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Penny Bright’s funeral
It was a privilege to go to Penny Bright’s funeral this afternoon, there was a lot of great kōrero.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Why my latest case is in the public interest and an example of the petty tyranny of Prison staff
Justice Anne Hinton was a fearless advocate for womens’ rights in matrimonial property cases during her career as a QC,…