5: KAMALA HARRIS CALLED YOUNG PEOPLE “STUPID” IN 2015
4: Iran passes new nuclear deal limit as China blames US for crisis
3: Veterans Affairs Police Are Supposed to “Protect Those Who Served.” They Have a Shocking Record of Brutality and Impunity.
2: U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Wins World Cup, Rebuking Pay Discrimination and President Trump
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I’m always in two minds about making submissions on parliamentary legislation. Is the time spent worthwhile when the government of the day won’t want to change the legislation anyway?
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Berm parking, Westland Milk & Chinese big money & plastic bag ban
In a re-run of the 1980’s ‘Yes Minister’ sitcom, Ministry of Health humphreys have absorbed like a sponge the community and Government messages about the urgent need for ‘transformational’ action on mental health, and are busy working out ways to head off any ‘transformation’ of their power and influence.
In a few weeks I am visiting a women’s open prison in the UK. I am really interested to see what they do there. Most countries have open prisons and various forms of community prison. We do not. For some reason, all our prisons got wrapped around in huge fences and became security-mad in the 1990s, and of course it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. The worse we treat them, the worse the become.
I am a survivor of rape, gang rape and the abusive police process I was subjected to when I reported it and I am fed up with watching sexual violence being used as a cover for political attacks on Julian Assange, his colleagues and his supporters.
Last week RNZ reported on two stories that should give us all pause to think about who we are , what we stand for and the ACTUAL rather than the pretend economic policy by which our country is run .
Malcolm Evans – Euthanasia
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