Yes the Coalition Party will sound like alt-right populism, but it won’t embody the economic security those working classes who have been damaged by neoliberalism are seeking. Trump attacked the TPPA and Brexit focused on economic sovereignty, the Bishop is just promising more divisiveness.
Isn’t it sad that not one of these organisations can spy on white supremacists with the ease they spy on Greenpeace, Nicky Hager, Māori protesting big oil, the Green Party, the MANA Party and Muslims?
This exclusive by Newsroom is not only an outstanding piece of journalism, but it raises serious questions about the motives of not allowing the victims of the Christchurch atrocity to access ACC payments…
Someone needs to suggest kindly to Carmel Sepuloni that attacking an organisation with the mana of Auckland Action Against Poverty is deeply troubling as their advocacy against the toxicity of MSD is essential to this debate.
The low, low, low, low threshold of ‘transformative’ that so many on the Left are prepared to accept is why change is glacial.
The time for ‘it’s a step in the right direction’ was in 1980. Leaps are required now.
THE TRAILERS for “That’s A Bit Racist” had not filled me with confidence. There was a tone that positively yelled: “Anyone who doesn’t like the sound of this programme is almost certainly part of the problem.” In other words, the programme showed every sign of making huge assumptions about the history, nature and extent of racism in New Zealand. The dumbed-down script, delivered in the overly-familiar diction of the contemporary radio and television host, only deepened my suspicions.
I’m always in two minds about making submissions on parliamentary legislation. Is the time spent worthwhile when the government of the day won’t want to change the legislation anyway?
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Berm parking, Westland Milk & Chinese big money & plastic bag ban
In a re-run of the 1980’s ‘Yes Minister’ sitcom, Ministry of Health humphreys have absorbed like a sponge the community and Government messages about the urgent need for ‘transformational’ action on mental health, and are busy working out ways to head off any ‘transformation’ of their power and influence.
In a few weeks I am visiting a women’s open prison in the UK. I am really interested to see what they do there. Most countries have open prisons and various forms of community prison. We do not. For some reason, all our prisons got wrapped around in huge fences and became security-mad in the 1990s, and of course it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. The worse we treat them, the worse the become.