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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.
I’ve actually got some sympathy for Corrections, because it all started with a Court of Appeal decision refusing to accept from me the very argument the Supreme Court has now upheld was correct.
On my first day I was immediately shocked that nobody was there to greet me and show me the area I would be assigned to work at. It was a very sloppy introduction. I had absolutely no clue where I was meant to be working.
The truth is, while beneficiaries have been demonised and punished through a cruel regime of blame and penalties, the country’s most voracious beneficiaries are employers and landlords – who also receive tax breaks for their rental properties.
For ‘devolution’, the reader can insert ‘corporatisation’, or ‘’dismemberment’, or a host of other descriptions of the cuts to community and public health services that new right philosophies are delivering.
Familicide is the name given to a particular kind of multiple murder – where one member of a family kills virtually everyone else in the family. If the perpetrator commits suicide afterwards (which occurs in 60% of such cases), it is referred to as familicide-suicide.
The 1st of August was a milestone day for the Living Wage movement and low paid Wellington workers. 60 security guards, noise control officers and cleaners at Wellington City Council had their pay lifted from around $15.60 to $18.55.
In response to my recent article on US imperial wars some people objected to my characterisation of the US empire.
January next year will mark 10 years since the suicide of our son Bruno, who was never hospitalised for his depression, but which left us with may questions about why young people are patronised by the state rather than empowered to fight suicide among their peers.
New Zealanders from all walks of life are coming together today in a Day of Action that will affirm our democratic rights and support initiatives to build a fairer and more sustainable society. There will be rallies, marches, music and speeches, in family-friendly events that bring together a powerful movement for change in towns and cities across Aotearoa New Zealand.