Dr Liz Gordon: Children visiting loved ones in prison
In my role as the Easter bunny, I was in Christchurch Men’s and Women’s prisons (not at quite the same time) giving out Easter Eggs over the weekend.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – The Crusades have not ended!
George Orwell said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Let’s be clear about what the Labour Coalition is refusing to do.
So let’s be absolutely clear – this Labour led coalition has no intention whatsoever of doing anything significant to reduce the gap between the haves and the have nots in our country which begs the question..
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Grant Robertson’s terrifying CGT admission & why blaming MMP doesn’t work
This was short sighted and desperate, it wasn’t an MMP checkmate by wily old Winston, wily old Winston could barely keep his eyes open, this was a poorly thought out knee-jerk that was kicked repeatedly into touch with no plan beyond kicking it into touch.
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Earth Day 2019 – Revolution or Funeral
The denial of climate change and the quack science used to peddle it must be eradicated with the same zealotry we amputate cancer. Our politicians are too frightened of the corporate vested interests that profit from pollution so those politicians need replacing.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Is the truth so dangerous we cannot speak it?
In my view, we tread a perilous path when we permit these matters to be effectively, swept under the carpet, because the revelations might be, too injurious to the public.
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Notre Dame burning while Labour walk away from CGT – why Danyl Mclauchlan is the most important political writer of our age & how to save Queen Jacinda
Jacinda symbolises a modern progressive democracy, her being pregnant and a mother while in power added with her compassionate rhetoric and incredible emotional intelligence that guided a nation through an atrocity are too precious to throw away but she must take on the free market establishment if her symbolism is to mean anything.
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Winston Peters and Neo-liberalism, Beat Compassion and Cool.
No wonder Winston Peters objected to the Coalition Government being called Labour-led. Because, on matters of most importance, it’s led by New Zealand First. And even though Fortune Magazine this week said Jacinda Ardern was the second most powerful leader in the world, that would make Winston the first.
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Why Extinction Rebellion are right
…more and more people of conscience are willing to be arrested to force the climate change debate. If every person genuinely concerned about climate change joined Extinction Rebellion protests every weekend and shut down roads and clogged the judicial process with thousands of arrests, the Government would be forced out of their bullshit Carbon Neutral by 2050 complacency.
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TVNZ current affairs upgrade
As news from social media gets regularly denigrated with the same derision as smoking in cars with babies, the large broadcasters are starting to steer back towards journalism rather than light weight pap.