GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Palestinian Heroine
What would you do if armed soldiers of an occupying force shot your 14-year old cousin in the face at close range and then tried to force their way into your property?
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: Amanda Sorrenson – Veganuary; The best NY’s resolution you can make!
Are you pondering the best New Year’s resolution that can help animals, the planet and your health?
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GUEST BLOG: Dr Liz Gordon – Christmas behind bars
At Christmas I play Santa at Christchurch men’s prison. At Easter I am the Easter Bunny. And in children of prisoner’s week I am a pretty handy face painter, this year tackling a horse, a tiger and various cats and dogs.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Diary up until Corrections suddenly gagged me and forcibly transferred me – HELP
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to contact or know the safety of Arthur at this time, Corrections are refusing to answer any questions.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Another Prison suicide for Christmas
Chris was a 30-year-old serving a life sentence in Unit 5, West Division Paremoremo. At least he was until the Night of Monday 27th of November when he apparently lost all hope that Corrections would ever allow him to complete the programs he needed to convince the Parole Board that he wasn’t an undue risk and could be released back to his loved ones.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson: I’m not playing National’s game on employment
All the National Party cares about is money. They are fixated on it and it is the only value they seem to have as individuals and as a political party.
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GUEST BLOG: Honourable Tracey Martin – Reflecting on 2017
I live in a very blue part of New Zealand but even there people have been coming up to me, people I know who vote blue, to say that they feel hopeful about this new Government. I am glad, I am proud but I am also very aware that over the next few years we must deliver for New Zealand and New Zealanders. That is our biggest challenge and we accept it.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – What a Trio, a Toxic Trio: Trump. Netanyahu and Mohammed Bin Salman
We here in NZ need to debate our role in the world. There is too much at stake. New Zealand should not be afraid to have an independent foreign policy. Someone must say NO to militarism , NO to war, YES to sanity, YES to humanity.
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GUEST BLOG: Dr Liz Gordon – Time for new strategies for women’s equality
I can remember many years ago being told my one of my senior academic colleagues that I should not be so impatient for women’s equality – that it would come, but probably take about 25 years. Well, 25 years has been and gone and progress have been sporadic and regression all too common. In particular, men are still mostly in charge of things. In the private sector and the state, most CEOs are men, most board chairs are men and most of the voices heard are males.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz: Regulating or Liberating Cannabis?
The NZ Drug Foundation has published its Briefing Document on Drug reform for the incoming Parliament. The indications are that its approach is one that the Government might favour because while it argues for decriminalisation to remove the worst aspects of our demonic cannabis laws, it also recommends heavy regulation of “production, consumption and sale”.