GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Courageous Move from Labour Māori MPs
Congratulations to Labour’s Māori seat Members of Parliament who have asked to not be included on the parties list for this year’s election.
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GUEST BLOG: The Opportunities Party – Crossing to the Dark Side
Young progressives, I’m sorry to tell you that you have lost a father figure this week. A father of your movement Chris Skytrotter was killed by an evil turncoat known as Darth Boomer.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Are we selling our water down the river
There is no resource more precious and valuable to the people and its land than water, yet on almost every front our rivers and lakes are under attack. Farming continues to pollute our rivers for more milk powder and greedy overseas interests effectively steal our water free and make millions in profit from it.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Now You See It, Now You Don’t
In mid-March, a report commissioned by the UN Agency ESCWA (Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) was released, that concluded unequivocally that Israel practises Apartheid policy. It saw official daylight for two days. The UN pulled the report and removed it from the UN website, after intense pressure from the US and Israel.
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Birchall – What Class Are You In? The Truth about Social Reproduction in the New Zealand Education System
In theory, education is supposed to be the ‘great equaliser’ – this is an idea we often tell ourselves and others. For well-meaning liberals, the answer to a significant amount of the world’s problems lies in its citizens being better educated. Sociologists have amassed a great deal of evidence that demonstrates the power of social class in enabling or disabling children’s achievement potentials at school right off the bat.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Raising the retirement age isn’t fair
Lot of talk this week that we need to raise the age of retirement to 67. The argument is that we can’t afford Superannuation at 65 for everyone so we should raise it to be ‘fair’. But who exactly is that being ‘fair’ to?
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Is Public Safety being endangered by Parole Board/Corrections Failings?
The most recent statistics I have been able to get that compare the reoffending rates of those granted parole with that of those who served their whole sentence relate to the period 1994-1999. Of those granted parole over that period, 15.5% reoffended and 84.5% didn’t. Of those who did not get parole 34.4% reoffended and 67.6% did not.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Wrong move from the Maori Party
The move from the Maori Party to have Tainui King Tuheitia endorse their candidate Rahui Papa in the Hauraki-Waikato seat is one of the most selfish and saddest political strategies I have ever witnessed in Maori politics.
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GUEST BLOG: John Stroh – TOP’s unconditional basic income – an unequivocal game changer?
I went to last night’s ‘town hall meeting’ with Gareth Morgan with some questions around the viability of his play…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Good on Devoy for taking on institutional racism
Congratulations to Race Relations commissioner Dame Susan Devoy for her courageous stand challenging the Government to hold an independent inquiry into the abuse of children held in care by the state.