Planned funding cuts paint a grim picture for disabled care – IHC
IHC is incredibly relieved Ministers have intervened to block the Ministry of Health going ahead with $30 million of funding…
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OIA papers show $30 million funding cuts by Ministry of Health blocked – Disability Support Network
Disability sector thanks Ministers for intervention Government urged to act on long overdue funding boost Thousands of disabled New Zealanders…
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Political Caption Competition
Explaining the great mystery of American politics
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 22nd April 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Monday 22nd April 2019
5: The evolution (or not) of school shootings in America
4: Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Mass casualties in churches and hotels
3: THE BEST HOT TAKE ON THE MUELLER REPORT IS FROM 1796
2: The Mueller Report: Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston on Trump-Russia Ties, Obstruction & More
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Winston Peters and Neo-liberalism, Beat Compassion and Cool.
No wonder Winston Peters objected to the Coalition Government being called Labour-led. Because, on matters of most importance, it’s led by New Zealand First. And even though Fortune Magazine this week said Jacinda Ardern was the second most powerful leader in the world, that would make Winston the first.
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Why Extinction Rebellion are right
…more and more people of conscience are willing to be arrested to force the climate change debate. If every person genuinely concerned about climate change joined Extinction Rebellion protests every weekend and shut down roads and clogged the judicial process with thousands of arrests, the Government would be forced out of their bullshit Carbon Neutral by 2050 complacency.
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TVNZ current affairs upgrade
As news from social media gets regularly denigrated with the same derision as smoking in cars with babies, the large broadcasters are starting to steer back towards journalism rather than light weight pap.
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The danger of the NZ Police mass surveillance state – we have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity
38 years ago this year a young NZ anarchist punk blew himself up outside the new Police computer building fearing that the big brother state was looming.
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A new political party in the wake of the CGT betrayal & the Politics of Kindness vs the unCivil Service
The explosion of rage at Labour’s betrayal can’t go anywhere because who else would they vote for? If a Party with the right leader could step up there might be a contest of ideas in 2020.