GUEST BLOG: Samira Taghavi – Response to the 15 February, Mahuta Press Release
The ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ movement has been alerting the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta and her government to the…
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
-
-
GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Slash
Will the Hipkins administration act to ban ‘Slash’? Forestry Slash has demolished houses, damaged bridges, covered farmland and beaches and…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Cumulative pandemic deaths: a graph more effective than 1,000 words
A good graphic illustration is well-known to convey a much stronger message than words. For a long time this was…
-
GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Aotearoa: let’s decolonize our rip, shit and bust capitalism
The 2-hundred-year ‘weather event’ of Cyclone Gabrielle was a momentary deluge compared with NZs 200 years of colonisation. Let’s get…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Ukraine – time for geopolitics and diplomacy
The New Zealand government has firmly come in behind the United States position of supporting Ukraine in the war arising…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ben Morgan – Russia’s offensive, slow and steady wins the race or will impatience win?
Pundits continue to discuss Russia’s impending offensive; and in recent weeks we have seen some interesting activity on the front…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Maori child health inequities reinforces case for the Maori Health Authority in New Zealand’s health system
Research over many years has identified serious longstanding health inequities for tamariki (Māori children). This has been both reinforced and…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ben Morgan – Spring offensive, Russia’s quickest way to lose the war!
This week discussion about the war in Ukraine has centred on a Russian ‘Spring Offensive’. Furrow browed pundits spent…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – If you don’t take the temperature you can’t find a fever
Heather Roy and I are an ‘odd couple’. Her intellectual roots are on the libertarian right and mine are on…
-
Pat O’Dea – RIP Dave Lennard
Remembering my friend Dave Lennard It was with deep sadness I heard that Dave Lennard was tragically killed when his…