GUEST BLOG: Katy Thomas – Why must my Son suffer without Medicinal Cannabis?
We want to buy a house. A home to watch our children grow up in as we grow old together. …
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Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – International working class action to blockade the Zionist state
Israel is a Zionist settler state colonised by miliary conquest. It is not a Jewish state. Most Jews around the…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Early health system initiatives: Elk City, Saskatchewan and Kurow
Last year I read a fascinating article published by the monthly Le Monde Diplomatique on early health system initiatives in…
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GUEST BLOG: Alan Preston – The Case of Julian Assange
Thanks to Radio New Zealand and to Bryan Crump for conducting these in-depth interviews ‘Julian Assange and the Future of…
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – RELIGION ISN’T THE ISSUE
Israel’s destruction of the international media centre in Gaza has served its intended purpose. Israel can continue its criminal outrages…
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GUEST BLOG: Grant Brookes – ‘Questions for the NZNO Board and CEO’ – Unpublished letter to Kai Tiaki
As top public sector union leaders went in to bat for their members and for public services over the last…
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GUEST BLOG: Katy Thomas – My son needs medicinal cannabis now Jacinda not when it’s politically safe
Our nights were punctuated by screams and Eddy wore the haunted look of a child who knows no rest. A child too scared to sleep for fear of the imminent suffocation and pain that awaits. He had bruises from head to toe where limbs and face had met hard things in the night and poor balance in the day. A child who would tell me he was scared of dying on his 7th birthday.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Improving income support critical for improving health system
Minister of Health Andrew Little claimed that his recently announced health restructuring was bold. But it was only bold in…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The importance of economic sovereignty
With the Westpac apparently thinking of demerging its New Zealand operation isn’t it time to ask:
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What is an economy for?
I’ve been very disappointed in many aspects of the current government’s previous budgets because they have shown a reluctance to pull all the available levers open to them to close the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor in our country. (By and large, for example,they rejected the recommendations of their own Tax Working Group).