The neoliberal seductiveness of euthanasia
Self-assisted suicide – which is what we are really discussing here, not the far more sterilised ‘euthanasia’, will become a means to a neoliberal end in NZ.
New Zealand Politics
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Open letter to the Honourable Carmel Sepuloni – end the horror of the neoliberal welfare state
If you are serious about changing welfare in NZ Carmel, then end the punitive debt and crushing punishment that is dealt out to those on Welfare. The bullshit need for the disabled to send in letters annually for disabilities that can’t be ‘cured’. The penalty interest rates put on welfare overpayments, the culture of fear that alienates and the staff who refuse to inform beneficiaries of what their actual rights and entitlements are.
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Why Climate Change could politically splinter the Greens and Labour
The current Green Party are locked into middle class identity politics and middle class environmentalism while Labour are too frightened to use the power of the State to intervene well beyond the timid measures currently being proposed.
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Sweet Jesus – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
I never believed it would happen – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
Her latest column is right.
Kinda.
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Why should we trust SIS, GCSB & Police with more power when they can’t use their current powers legally?
We have Police and Intelligence Agencies stepping well outside the law and not getting punished for it.
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In 9 weeks, Labour has done more to eradicate child poverty than National did in 9 years
This is a great start, but to truly change we need a new Government who will use the looming economic meltdown as an opportunity to borrow and invest directly into the social infrastructure to handle the jump in poverty that economic recession will cause…
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Governing For The “Other Half” Of New Zealand
THE LABOUR PARTY has never been very tolerant of dissenters. It is, therefore, unsurprising that very few within its ranks have reacted positively to my recent posting on The Daily Blog. No matter how many private reservations Labour supporters may be harbouring about Grant Robertson’s “fiscally responsible” economic policies, they would rather his critics refrained from giving public voice to their concerns.
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GUEST BLOG: Dr Liz Gordon – Time for new strategies for women’s equality
I can remember many years ago being told my one of my senior academic colleagues that I should not be so impatient for women’s equality – that it would come, but probably take about 25 years. Well, 25 years has been and gone and progress have been sporadic and regression all too common. In particular, men are still mostly in charge of things. In the private sector and the state, most CEOs are men, most board chairs are men and most of the voices heard are males.
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We will miss Mike Hosking at 7pm the way we miss cancer
I think Mike appeals to those who already have and his quaint musings on working hard and not helping beneficiaries because that only enables them when you feed them slips effortlessly into the cultural norms rich people convince themselves of when they have to step over beggars to get into Louis Vuitton stores.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz: Regulating or Liberating Cannabis?
The NZ Drug Foundation has published its Briefing Document on Drug reform for the incoming Parliament. The indications are that its approach is one that the Government might favour because while it argues for decriminalisation to remove the worst aspects of our demonic cannabis laws, it also recommends heavy regulation of “production, consumption and sale”.