Ben Peterson – Frontline at the fight for the heart and soul of the British Labour Party
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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Arthur Taylor – Corrections should have listened to me in 2003
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.
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Joseph Costello – My Sistema nightmare
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.
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Karen Gregory-Hunt – Government Subsidies
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.
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Dave Macpherson – ‘Devolution’ of Mental Health services gathers pace
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.
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Roger Brooking – The research on familicide all points to Robin Bain as the killer
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.
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Lyndy McIntyre – A Fairer Wellington
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.
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Kieran Kelly – The Empire Paradox: More Power is More Weakness
In response to my recent article on US imperial wars some people objected to my characterisation of the US empire.
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Dave Brownz – Youth Suicide in Aoteroa: Who Killed Yellow Ribbon?
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.
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Dave Macpherson – There’s a fair bit of money to be made in mental health (or how the system is designed to defeat the ‘little people’)….
As the various lawyers and other legal types have jostled over the preliminaries ahead of the inquest into our son’s death while in the care of Waikato DHB 18 months ago, I’ve reflected on what a lucrative business mental health can be – for some.