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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 17th August 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Award winning book miseducates young readers about war
Being the son of Elsie Locke I was interested to see who won the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction at this year’s NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The Elsie Locke Award recognises my late mother’s contribution to children’s literature.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Public Scrutiny on Mental Health starting to get under Govt’s skin
In perhaps a direct attack on my family, the Report states that “DHB leaders are worried about interest groups who repeatedly call for inspections and enquiries and allegedly run ‘personalised social media campaigns targeting individual clinicians, service leaders and staff’, according to mental health issues reporter Jess McAllen.
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Wellington mayoral candidates support the Living Wage – PSA
Three Wellington mayoral hopefuls say they will ensure Wellington City Council fully adopts the Living Wage at the first candidates’…
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Kevin Hague + Greg O’Connor + Helen Kelly = Cannabis Legalisation
The simple truth is that there is no political courage to force the current war on drugs back on cannabis.
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Collaborating with a government which demonises the vulnerable
This is a shameful act of betrayal by IHC which has transitioned from a genuine community based group doing great work for disabled New Zealanders into a corporate contractor for a vicious right-wing government.
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What Paul Henry is not understanding about the new GCSB laws
The GCSB is the technical ability to spy and it helps out agencies to do that, allowing the GCSB to effectively create its own branch of investigation that grants itself these massive powers is an extreme increase in power that no one seems to understand.
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And now the Government are coming for whistleblowers
The National Government will imprison whistleblowers -if your enemy is people telling the truth, then you have deep deep deep problems.
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High Time: Why the Greens must rejoin the fight for cannabis law reform
in spite of the public’s readiness for radical reform, the leadership of the two big political parties have either refused to embrace the necessity for change (National) or taken refuge behind the poll results by issuing a cautious endorsement of medicinal cannabis use, while remaining opposed to any broader decriminalisation measures (Labour).