The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday – 3rd March 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
…seeing as Jan has taken the time to respond, it would be wrong not to reciprocate.
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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
We have to take a long, hard look at why the system has failed Maori despite three decades of progress in certain areas. There has been a significant growth in professional and middle-class layers amongst Maori which is a good thing. There has been an expansion in Maori-run businesses and assets under Maori control that deliver services directly to Maori people.
Real left-wingers, today, emulating the real left-wingers of the 1980s, would require those advocating top-down revolution to first obtain a bottom-up mandate.
And so the mighty City State of Auckland has been struck down again to Level 3 because someone wasn’t following the rules. This rule breaching has unleashed a cacophony of judgement and fury that makes John Banks TalkBack seem progressive.
I have seen a few comments about the place concerning Case M etc. – asking if maybe the Government didn’t do enough to communicate with the person (and family) in question in culturally relevant ways or a language he could understand.
In times of crisis, leadership is tempered.
There has been a lot of media over the past week focussed on the need to improve the prisons. I must say that I have been disturbed by Kelvin Davis’ ‘blame the victim’ stance.