P, Ngaruawahia, government indifference and community vigilantes
P is a huge concern in low-income areas and has been for a long time. But it was only when middle-class kids were effected that we saw action.
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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Poto Williams – Seclusion Rooms in Schools a disturbing symptom of Education’s tragic legacy under National
What was even more disturbing was learning that the Minister of Education had known about this for two months and appears not to lifted a finger until she was outed by Autism New Zealand and concerned parents.
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Aiding Israel’s profitable expansionism
Next month, from 14-20 November the USS Sampson will attend the Royal New Zealand Navy’s International Naval Review, which just happens to coincide with a Weapons Conference & Expo sponsored by the NZ Defence Industry Association (NZDIA), 16-20 November.
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90% of chefs no longer eligible for permanent residence
Just a few months ago Andrew Little was attacked by the government for questioning whether New Zealand actually needed so many chefs as part of the skilled migrant category.
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Why the Greater Good requires Americans to vote for the Lesser Evil – Hillary Clinton
The socially-just, ecologically-sustainable and peace-making America we are all hoping for is unlikely to be fully realised under President Hillary Clinton, but a great deal more of it will be brought into existence under her leadership than under Donald Trump’s.
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Learning from Helen
Working people lost a hero on Friday. We knew Helen Kelly’s death was imminent, but nothing could really prepare us for losing such a powerful voice for fairness and justice.
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Emotional Literacy
I was the first one in my family to be waylaid by a mental health speed wobble. Oh LaQuisha, she’s so crazy. But as the decades ticked over, the others started to fall too. This is when I realized I was the canary. The illness was in the family all along, it was just that I was that much closer to the psychic metal than the rest of them.
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MUST READ: Bill opens door to extensive GCSB surveillance of New Zealanders
I recommend the Select Committee not proceed with this Bill in its present form. Overall it puts New Zealanders in a worse situation than in already existing legislation, in relation to both their personal privacy and their right to untrammeled freedom of expression.
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A Howling Moral Vacuum: America’s Syrian Policy
The creation of a liberal secular democracy was not the real reason the CIA was in Syria. The real reason they were working so hard to make civil war inevitable was because they wanted to prevent Syria and its neighbours, Lebanon and Iraq, from getting any closer to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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High court challenge as government blunders on selling state houses while families live in cars and garages
Last month SHA Inc. filed papers for a judicial review because we can see no way the Minister of State Housing Bill English or Social Housing Minister Paula Bennet can justify the sale in terms of the statutory objectives of the government’s so-called State Housing Reform Programme.