Something the Justice Summit missed – why are NZs prisons becoming forced labour camps?
While prisoners should work if they want to, attaching parole to that isn’t incentivising, it’s forcing.
New Zealand Politics
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How useless, gutless and spineless is ECan and the Environmental Protection Agency?
…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?
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Ummm – do we really want to give Corrections Staff tasers after this?
…NZs damaged prison industrial complex is damaging the prisoners AND those we ask to work in that environment.
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Dear Jacinda – Of course business confidence has plummeted – and there’s one simple reason
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.
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If crypto-fascists can be allowed into the country – a human rights legend like Chelsea Manning should be allowed to as well – this is what free speech looks like!
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!
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Working For Families: Keeping The Wheels Of Capitalism Turning
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”.
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TWITTER WATCH: Chloe Swarbrick burns Greg O’Connor
Green on Red attack.
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Forces aligned against Bridges within National might move against him over holidays
National just needs a simple 51% majority of Caucus for a spill. How many look trust worthy in this picture?
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Myths that hurt children
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.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Spring
At the justice summit, I passed two Māori participants discussing daffodils and clouds, and stopped dead. “Are you quoting Wordsworth?”…