GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Why is Northland not at Alert Level 4?
Are the people of Northland’s lives and health not as valued as ours?
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: Pat O’Dea – Suppression has failed sign the petition
Experts say vaccination levels are still too low to prevent a major deadly outbreak. In the meantime Suppression has failed….
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GUEST BLOG: Chris Leitch – Rules for funding of political parties need radical overhaul
A robust democracy needs political parties to be sufficiently well funded to actively participate in elections.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Eliminating Covid aways meant eliminating Capitalism
From the outset Covid told us that it was caused by capitalism and that to defeat it we had to…
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – A Shared Struggle
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.“ — Fyodor Dostoyevsky “It is said…
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – PM says returning to level 4 is ‘not part of our consideration’, as parts of Waikato will move to level 3 tonight
Reporting by Jonathan MacKenzie – Oct 03, 2021 ‘Covid is here and it’s a matter of time before it spreads across…
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – WE’RE MAORI, NOT MUSHROOMS
On Tue 28 Sept, the Police contacted us about a woman from Kaikohe, who had tested positive for Covid in…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Mental health funding mystery and mischief
One of the difficulties that can occur in parliamentary politics is that the response of the government of the day responds to an opposition party spinning a yarn that makes it look bad is to either behave like a possum in the headlights or defensively spin back. The more sensible and effective response would be empirical; sticking to and better explaining the facts.
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – The War in Washington
It cannot be overstated; This is not just an existential moment for the Democrat Party, it is an existential moment for American, (and world). democracy itself.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Covid-19 elimination strategy, smug hermit kingdoms and Kim Jong-Key
There has been a growing number of voices calling for an end to New Zealand’s elimination strategy in the fight against Covid-19. Much of it comes from impulsive media ‘shock-jocks’ through sensationalist but misleading sound-bytes claiming that it has failed. Some of it is more measured and cautious but misses the boat by suggesting that the Government is considering a backdown.