MEDIA STATEMENT: Nicky Steven’s whanau grieve for family of yet another victim of poor mental health services
North Shore mental health unit death – yet another time where the family is ignored and disaster strikes North Shore’s…
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NZs ‘Mr Israel’ to set up far right Christian Party to put National into power – our own Handmaid’s Tale moment
The horror of what Alabama has pulled off by effectively banning abortions is their ‘Handmaid’s tale moment’, NZs ‘Mr Israel’ setting up a far right Christian Party is to prop up National is going to be ours.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – I have just signed a petition to parliament by 13 year old Sinead Latimer
We have the highest rate of teenage suicide in the developed world. According to Stephen Bell (Director of Youthline ) In a average week two teenagers kill themselves and about 20 young people will be hospitalised for self-harm each week, he estimated.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Prime Minister is remarkable
There is no question our Prime Minister is a truly remarkable person.
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Inquiry will miss the main issue which keeps us at risk
The most worrying aspect of the commission of inquiry into the Christchurch shootings is that the terms of reference give too much room for our security agencies – the SIS and GCSB – to hide.
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Phil Twyford the privatiser of state assets
I used to feel a bit sorry for Minister of Housing Phil Twyford being blamed for failing to deliver something he can’t control – the market price for housing. When Labour was elected the market had already driven prices to the unaffordable level for the vast majority.But when he started taking Housing NZ land that should be used for more state housing to achieve that goal he became another privatiser of state assets.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – America: Rogue State
The trouble with schoolyard bullies is; sooner or later the smaller kids catch up. And as Great Britain and France found out: EMPIRES DIE.
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Mass surveillance of Beneficiaries is sickening
Like an official panty sniffer, the Ministry of Social Development sneak around people’s bedrooms to see if they are in a relationship or not.
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Jacinda’s leadership dazzles on the international stage again
Leading the charge to demand social media companies face regulation to stop the live streaming of terrorist acts is noble and an appropriate response to the atrocity in Christchurch.
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Cheating students at exploitative educational facilities doing scam degrees – how very Nu Zilind
We currently do these international students a terrible disservice so news there is cheating rife throughout the entire structure is the perfect symptom to a rotten industry.