GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – No Future for Capitalist Work
The impact of automation was predicted by Karl Marx around the time Aotearoa was being invaded by people with horses and carts.
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Ruby Joy – A place to belong
I grew up in church and consider myself to be a Christian yet finding a church that resembles anything I…
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GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – There was an Old Woman who lived in a Shoebox, and other State Home stories…
There are good people here in Merivale. People who are resilient and proud and all embracing. They take you as you come and expect nothing in return besides the acceptance of who they are – loyal, passionate, and intimately connected to their community. I move amongst these people. I have come to know them well and they bring colour and light to my World.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Health Minister auditions for Nero role while mental health services collapse around him….
The call for an “urgent nationwide enquiry into mental health services” by Green Party Health spokesperson Kevin Hague comes 13 months after the death of our son, Nicky Stevens, while in the ‘care’ of Waikato DHB – and 20 years after the second Mason Report into NZ’s antiquated mental health services.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – sewage floods NZ prison
The computer room got flooded with sewage overnight from the toilets , so no education classes. Ditto for the indoor recreation area, passage to the outdoor recreation area, outside the kitchen serving hatch, laundry room and PCO Phil Cullen’s office
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Dr Marx on the myth of “fair shares”
The global rich have been caught with their blind trusts exposed and this is supposed to tell us something, but what?
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Can Corrections Get Anything Right?
The Head Office of Corrections is Mayfair House at 44 The Terrace Wellington. Many frontline Corrections staff, and most prisoners, refer to it as ‘Bullshit House’, much the same as many cops refer to their Wellington headquarters as ‘Bullshit Palace’.
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GUEST BLOG – ‘June’ – in wake of ‘Prominent NZer’ verdict – Three times over, and never again
I wrote this initially because I thought it was an important story to tell, but I asked Russell to publish it anonymously on my behalf. A decision driven primarily by fear. Fear or scrutiny, fear of judgement, fear of the sense of shame that still lingered.
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Sian Robertson: The Writing’s on the Wall
The most important local target is the NZ Superannuation Fund, which invests in several companies that profit from Israel’s stranglehold on Palestine. It’s not pretty – among these are several manufacturers of military equipment used to massacre and maim Palestinian civilian populations, banks operating in and financing the illegal Israeli settlements and Caterpillar bulldozers that destroy Palestinian homes.
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GUEST BLOG: Dr Rhys Jones – The dangers of the TPPA
“This post is adapted from an oral submission by Dr Rhys Jones on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), outlining the significant risks to health and equity. He asserts that it would be grossly irresponsible of the New Zealand Government to ratify the agreement without a comprehensive, independent health impact assessment, including a formal equity analysis.”