…since when did a country that prides itself on being clean and green allow the very agencies that are supposed to protect the environment help those who want to exploit it damage it without any consequences?
…NZs damaged prison industrial complex is damaging the prisoners AND those we ask to work in that environment.
Economic growth under National relied on a speculative property bubble, rebuilding from natural disasters and mass immigration, that’s all that kept the GDP inflated and ‘rock star’ like. Low business confidence is proof that fake growth model is over and the business community know it.
Chelsea Manning exposed war crimes, Molyneux and Southern peddle petty psudeo-science bigotry, for National to champion one and damn the other is hypocrisy of the worst kind!
St John is scathing in her condemnation of the purveyors of what she regards as the “subsidy myth”. Matthew Hooton, Eric Crampton on the Right; Bryce Edwards on the Left; and “others”.
Green on Red attack.
National just needs a simple 51% majority of Caucus for a spill. How many look trust worthy in this picture?
Blaming WFF for low wages is a bit like pointing to our high rate of suicide and blaming it on the existence of the mental health services. The true cause of low wages is found in casualised hours, precarious employment, automation, globalised labour markets and falling wage share of output due to loss of union power.
At the justice summit, I passed two Māori participants discussing daffodils and clouds, and stopped dead. “Are you quoting Wordsworth?”…
Arthur Taylor is TDBs Prisoner Rights Blogger currently inside prison. He was not allowed to present at the recent Justice Summit.