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To celebrate the Labour-Green policy announcement that an entire category of crime (sexual offending) can be “ultimately eliminated” if given a twenty-five-year period of attention (after thousands of years of modern human existence in which crime has obviously been a concomitant), the government last week chose to pump the Sexual Violence Bill to the top of the parliamentary order paper.
Who will stand for Justice?
The Sexual Violence Bill now before Parliament this week is a travesty that strengthens the already strong arm of the state and subverts a central tenet of our legal system – the presumption of innocence
Reputable medical journals such as the British Medical Journal (BMJ) are invaluable not just for doctors but for those that…
“It’s been a mission getting to this point, but as long as our focus is on protecting our communities we…
When the Labour Party came in power in 2017, leading a coalition government, it brought with it an understandable strong…
Do I feel joy in this vindication of my analysis published by BusinessDesk? Absolutely not! Am I disappointed by the Government’s duplicity in obscuring its error? Very much so!
There are few things more self-evident that when a government focusses on major health structural change. Pressing issues in the health system are neglected by the system’s political and bureaucratic leadership.
In the around 35 years I worked for unions (over 30 with the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists and earlier with the New Zealand Educational Institute) I often cogitated over the distinction between unions and unionism. They are intertwined but not inseparable.
The Israeli regime is determined to suppress and silence any awareness of the suffering imposed on the Palestinian people.
