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It would be hard to overstate the importance of the role that Jose Ramos Horta played during the long dark years when Timor Leste was occupied by Indonesia. As ‘foreign minister’ in exile he developed quite extraordinary advocacy and diplomatic skills that other liberation movements could only envy.
Anyone who infers that those from lower socio economic groups can’t achieve incredible things and lead interesting rich lives doesn’t have a “286” mindset.
It’s hard to believe isn’t it… CareNZ continues to take public funds to provide under-resourced programmes for Prisoners and continues to get rid of qualified, experienced Counsellors at the cost of thousands of taxpayers dollars.
Tertiary education becomes less accessible each year, with fee increases, reduced student allowance availability, increases in loan repayments, lowering of the income threshold for repayments and unrealistic means testing.
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) debate is an issue which is very close to my heart: It is quite literally the reason I went to university (I wanted to research it to see if it was really viable) and is also one of the main reasons I got into politics.
The lack of data collected and reported on crucial issues in the MSD space drives me crazy.
April 17 was Palestinian Prisoners day.
The six finalists for the 2015 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand were, in alphabetical order:
Apple
Bunnings
IAG/State Insurance
MediaWorks
Serco
Westpac
Today many around the world celebrate May Day, International Workers’ Day. In New Zealand we don’t commemorate it officially, we have Labour Day in October to serve this purpose.
Social media has become a means of workers talking to each other and organising around their issues and disputes, but…
