GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Drug reform
When you are in Government you can either continue doing things that don’t work but make the angry happy, or you can challenge counter productive policy and push for change.
New Zealand Politics
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Well, well, well – Kim Dotcom was right – here is the mass surveillance
Are you feeling safe yet sleepy hobbits?
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The Salvation Army’s Latest Report: Identifying the Sins – but not the Solutions
THE LATEST “State of Our Communities” report from the Salvation Army exposes a worrying fragility in New Zealand’s social relationships. Behind the happy multicultural façade so beloved of politicians and bureaucrats, racial animosities fester and tensions between competing ethnic communities multiply.
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How badly beaten down have we become by drug prohibition? When we are offered crumbs we cheer
…giving Police discretion to prosecute drug users is not a solution and will result in racist outcomes, which is what we have now – but by all means, cheer like this is meaningful.
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Soaring rents, skyrocketing suicide rates, environmental scientists too frightened to talk and 100 000 hungry children – Merry Christmas NZ
We have lost perspective on what actually matters in this country. It’s partly a current affairs and news environment more focused on petty gotchas and infotainment, it’s partly a smug conceit by the Left who have ignored those issues because Labour is in Power.
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Of all the people to attack, Richie Hardcore isn’t one of them!
…this story is such horse shit! If there are any questions to answer it’s from Simon Bridges and the National Party member who is in a relationship with Sroubek’s former partner…
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The horror of Antarctica meltdown
While our political leaders are numbed into inaction by business interests who gain the most from climate change pollution, the one place climate deniers always pointed at to claim global warming wasn’t really happening, is in meltdown…
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National’s disgusting and despicable fear mongering over medicinal cannabis
The only thing worse than the Greens celebrating this pathetic nothing is National trying to manufacture monsters that simply don’t exist.
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TWITTER WATCH: Politicising a death
Everyone seems to want to twist the tragic death of this young visitor to our shores into their own ideological frame work.
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MUST READ GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – Throwing my weight around
I am a poet/creative writer. I don’t claim to know facts or statistics. This piece is offered purely as a creative response to recent (and historic) events, speaking to how women and girls are forced to navigate the World throughout their lives.