GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – What’s really happening inside our prisons right now
The latest news is that the rehab program probation officers are managing caseloads of up to 70 inmates, versus the recommended 35 inmate maximum.
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Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – What to do about Radio New Zealand?
A station that gets 35 million in taxpayers funding now not only doesn’t have one Maori presenter in prime time but it doesn’t have any Maori news.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – UBI distraction from capitalist reality
Not until bosses give back their profits to the generations of workers they stole them from will any redistribution of income be more than a subsidy to the bosses.
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GUEST BLOG: Ruby Joy – The remnants of a life less lived
Recently I helped a friend go through his elderly mothers house after she had moved to assisted living.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Corrections Assault on The Privacy And Official Information Acts
On 14 March the Human Rights Review Tribunal began hearing my case against Corrections policy of automatically redacting the names, positions and work contact details of its staff from documents released under the Privacy and Official Information Act.
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – Change in the air for West Papua? Melanesia leads the way.
It is great to watch the Solomon Islands establishing itself as a champion of human rights for West Papua.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – suicide inside prison
If you were to listen to the tripe trotted out by corrections spin doctors (which cost you tens of millions) you could be forgiven to thinking all was rosy behind prison walls.
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GUEST BLOG: Andrew Little responds to accusations of racism
The way comments made by me have been reported are baffling. Of more concern, however, is that they may have offended anyone. I would never want for anyone in this country to feel they are being somehow targeted. That’s not what I stand for and it’s not what Labour stands for either.
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Pirie – A Trump Presidency: It Will Never Happen…Until It Does
Many will say, indeed have been saying for many months, ‘It will never happen’. I have been noticing that the chuckle or snigger that usually follows this pronouncement has been sounding ever more nervous and hollow of late.
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GUEST BLOG: Auckland community campaign SOUL: Who profits from the land wars?
Effects on Māori communities — including mana whenua of Ihumātao — from land confiscation were far reaching and devastating, and are now finally well-documented