Plunket & Families Celebrate Extended Paid Parental Leave
Plunket is celebrating the extension to paid parental leave today as ‘an important investment in families and the future of…
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NZ Royal Commission Inquiry into Child Abuse & Child Rape
The New Zealand Royal Commission Inquiry into Child Rape and Child Abuse should be across the board, applying and affecting…
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Home-for-a-home scheme for developing nations announced – Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity New Zealand, a not-for profit organisation that works to provide access to affordable shelter, in partnership with…
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Refugee youth say NZ welcomes refugees “in theory,” but not always in practice – RASNZ
Participants in a Refugee Youth Forum in west Auckland yesterday say New Zealand provides core services to refugees, but that…
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Political Caption Competition
Simon Bridges and Judith Collins are going to compete to eat this puppy alive.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 4th December 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The Liberal Agenda Review: Gideon Levy’s road to Damascus (via Palestine)
His message – that Israeli society is incapable of dismantling the occupation and that the only way change will occur is by outside nations forcing that change upon Israel. He spoke positively of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) calling it the only game in town in shaming Israel into action.
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At some point the new Government have to acknowledge a positivity campaign only works with a fair Opposition
Sunshine and happiness are great. And Jacinda should be championing that style of progressive democracy, but someone has got to stand up and start punching back!
The new Government has got to start assembling their hit team.
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PMC photojournalism book offers ‘window’ into Pacific culture, issues
The new book, Conflict, Custom & Conscience: Photojournalism and the Pacific Media Centre 2007-2017, has been launched to mark the 10th anniversary of AUT’s centre. It is divided into four themes – culture, environment, women, and politics, protest and conflict – through which the richness of the region comes through.
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Don Brash’s attitudes a relic of colonialism
Don Brash also overlooked the historical and contemporary diversity, and complexity of New Zealand, saying ‘New Zealand values are British values’, and that a lot of socio-economic deprivation among Maori is because they ‘don’t speak English properly’.