GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Jailhouse narks
Spent a very interesting Thursday in the High Court before Justice Fogarty trying to get the name suppression of Secret Witness C who was a pivotal witness in the Tamihere trial lifted.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Health Minister needs treatment for delusions
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
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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Douglas Renwick – A Discourse on Corporate Propaganda. Part 1: What is Corporate Propaganda?
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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Kelvin Smythe – Hekia Parata fighting for her job
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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Dave Macpherson – Mental healthcare heading for privatisation
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
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
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
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
From the beginning, we knew that this election would never happen. An election of representatives for any office involves the…