GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Prisoners react to Labour winning
Not since the Rugby World Cup have I heard a cheer as loud in the unit as when the new Labour government was announced last night .
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GUEST BLOG: Barbara Creswell – Why are martial law military exercises being held in Local Communities?
Forest and Bird chief executive Kevin Hague said in July that documents released under the Official Information Act indicated that ‘the scope of law and regulation that the government is proposing to suspend, to facilitate these developments, is breath-taking’.
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GUEST BLOG: Nadine McDonnell – Why Harvey? Why now?
The term sexual harassment is a bit distracting as the activity is more about power than sex. Sex does often come into it – but most of the time it is about men using their power to abuse women in any way they can.
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GUEST BLOG: 2 chain* – Happy Labour Day (except at Talley’s)
A Talley’s owned meat plant has given their workers an ultimatum; sign a new contract that includes an effective 85 cents per hour pay cut or be paid as a casual, with no sick days, no holidays, no production bonus and no rights of ongoing work. Oh, and no pay this Labour Day either.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Make Money Über Alles?
A friend has alerted me to a story that I missed when it was printed in the business section of…
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GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – 2 MINUTE HISTORY LESSON
1835 – Māori: “We independent, better rec.”
Crown: “Sweet”
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GUEST BLOG: Kim Isaac – the reality for single mums & dads
The income breakdown you are looking at is of a single mum with one child living in South Auckland. The landlord notified a rise in the rent to “Market” rate of $550 per week for a basic, and run down home.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – BACK TO SCHOOL , NOT FOR EVERYONE!
Jubbet Adh-Dhib is a small Palestinian village in the West Bank. To get to school, children have had to walk several kilometres, on muddy rough trails. Moreover, they have often been harrassed, sometimes violently, by Israeli soldiers and ‘settlers’
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GUEST BLOG: Gael Baldock – Are some Kiwis feeling post-coital regret?
I choose to believe that it’s not as simple as 46% of New Zealanders being selfish in choosing a tax cuts over free doctor’s visits and feeding the children? Instead it’s that type of campaign National chose to run and the “right-washing” of the press that left people confused.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Māori have spoken and cried ‘Labour’
We have seen our culture robbed of its rightful vibrancy and we have seen our fellow worker, Pasifika neighbour, migrant friend and beneficiary whānau hurt by a Government more focused on punishing them than genuinely helping them.