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GUEST BLOG: Matthew Hooton – My position on NBR
ByThe Daily Blog 23 May 2018

For those asking, yes, Todd Scott filed a Statement of Claim against me in the High Court today. He alleges that it was negligent for me to have sent NBR the column I did about Steven Joyce. Consequently, despite the column having been published in the NBR after being read and subedited by several NBR staff including editor Duncan Bridgeman, Todd says I should have to pay some or all NBR’s costs and any losses it suffers from Mr Joyce’s litigation.

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Deconstructing Headlines · Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs

If the NZ media thought they could get away with calling Stewart Murray Wilson the Tentacled Vampire Monster from Mars, they would (I’ll never be your Beast of Blenheim)
ByMartyn Bradbury 22 May 2018

The punishment handed out to those who seriously breach our laws is a loss of liberty. For a species as communal as ours, there is no greater punishment. Needing to add suffering to that loss of liberty by portraying prisoners as subhuman isn’t justice, it’s vengeance and until we as a nation are prepared to look in the mirror and ask why we need vengeance over justice, we as a culture can not advance.

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Deconstructing Headlines · Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs

What happened to New Zealand? When did anger and fear warp social policy into state sanctioned spite?
ByMartyn Bradbury 22 May 2018

We have become a nation of passive malice, the malignancy of which overshadows all our creations.

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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Explosive new allegations about Christchurch Prison
ByThe Daily Blog 22 May 2018

The Daily Blog is right about Christchurch Prison’s problems and a lot hasn’t come out yet.

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Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda · Susan St John

MUST READ: Does this budget turn the tide?
ByThe Daily Blog 22 May 2018

Let’s be clear, the family poverty inherited from the last decade of entrenched poor policies, sheer neglect or deliberate attacks on living standards won’t be fixed overnight. We get that. We know the PM has solving child poverty at her core, and her values and integrity are the best thing that has happened to children for a very, very long time. But CPAG is the critical friend and has to say the hard stuff on behalf of children.

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Setting the Agenda

MUST READ: Budget 2018 – Half of something and half of nothing
ByThe Daily Blog 22 May 201817 January 2026

In its first Budget the Government had an opportunity to break the neo-liberal mould which has been the basis of every budget for the past 32 years but they didn’t.

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Child Poverty Action Group Post Budget Meeting
ByThe Daily Blog 22 May 2018

From the Child Poverty Action Group Auckland Post Budget Meeting proudly live streamed on The Daily Blog last Friday

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Efeso Collins · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

MUST READ: I’ve read the PWC Stadium report and it didn’t take me very long because so many words were redacted from the version I got!
ByThe Daily Blog 22 May 2018

I’ve read the PWC report and it didn’t take me very long because so many words were redacted from the version I got. But in light of a looming regional fuel tax, which hits poorer communities hardest and representing a Ward with the lowest level of home ownership… a stadium in the middle of the city to host a future Commonwealth Games and the odd Abba comeback concert, is the last thing on their minds.

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Chris Trotter · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

MUST READ: Budget 2018: Labour’s Pre-Emptive Capitulation To Kiwi Capitalism’s Discontent
ByThe Daily Blog 22 May 2018

Grant Robertson’s dutiful and fiscally timid first budget has furnished New Zealand business leaders with all the proof they could possibly need that neoliberalism’s sharpest teeth are all perfectly safe.

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Mike Treen · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Union leader Mike Treen to join flotilla to Gaza in July
ByThe Daily Blog 21 May 2018

Mike Treen spoke with acclaimed US/Palestinian author Dr Baroud who is currently on a speaking tour of New Zealand on why he is going on the Flotilla to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. (See link below)

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