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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Health Minister needs treatment for delusions
ByThe Daily Blog 5 October 2016

The truth is that mental health services, when they are available, are creaking at the seams even worse than the overall public health system. Staff numbers are insufficient and staff are poorly remunerated for the work they do, facilities are antiquated or were never adequate, community mental health services are underfunded and sparse or unavailable in many areas and support for vulnerable patients and their families is missing.

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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Horror stories inside Auckland Woman’s Prison
ByThe Daily Blog 3 October 2016

The fact that they have woman vs. child offenders, including extremely violent ones (including those that have committed a range of serious sex crimes) being housed with youths, together- rather than separate, should be of concern to all of us.

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GUEST BLOG: Douglas Renwick – A Discourse on Corporate Propaganda. Part 1: What is Corporate Propaganda?
ByThe Daily Blog 30 September 2016

In order to answer the question of what corporate propaganda it is first necessary to disentangle some standard misleading perceptions about the role that propaganda has played in history.

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GUEST BLOG: Kelvin Smythe – Hekia Parata fighting for her job
ByThe Daily Blog 29 September 2016

For Hekia to use this populist, down-home stuff to distract from the way she has ripped the heart out of New Zealand schools, especially primary schools, and to further her plans for more rough surgery (better called the ‘big shakedown’), demonstrates she senses a problem of tenure, and she knows it.

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GUEST BLOG: Amnesty International – Thailand: A culture of torture under the military
ByThe Daily Blog 29 September 2016

Since seizing power in a 2014 coup, Thailand’s military authorities have allowed a culture of torture and other ill-treatment to flourish across the country, with soldiers and policemen targeting suspected insurgents, political opponents, and individuals from the most vulnerable sections of society, a new report by Amnesty International said today.

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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Mental healthcare heading for privatisation
ByThe Daily Blog 28 September 2016

Dave Macpherson is The Daily Blog’s mental health blogger after losing his son to mental health incompetence. He is also a candidate for the Waikato DHB.

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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Globalised Solidarity
ByThe Daily Blog 28 September 2016

The Standing Rock Sioux and those who have joined them have been met with violence from private contractors , including pepper spray and attack dogs, one of the contractors being the large British multinational security contractor G4S.

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GUEST BLOG: Jeremy Roundill – Spencer Family Mansion – a History of rich pricks
ByThe Daily Blog 27 September 2016

The Spencers refuse to pay their fair share, and have no qualms about pissing on those who suffer as a result. That they’ve decided to build a mansion on a section, the likes of which the rest of us could never even dream, is just another slap in the face from our horrible, burgeoning upper class.

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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Corbyn, the threat is real
ByThe Daily Blog 26 September 2016

Ben Peterson is a Unite Union Organiser and is TDBs correspondent in Britain covering the fight and fallout of the British Labour Party Leadership contest.

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GUEST BLOG: Kieran Robert Kelly – The 2016 US Presidential Election Will Not Take Place
ByThe Daily Blog 26 September 2016

From the beginning, we knew that this election would never happen. An election of representatives for any office involves the…

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