Sanity & MoU prevails – Greens won’t stand candidate in Ohariu
This on paper should be making Dunne nervous, but it doesn’t mean Greg O’Connor will have a free run.
New Zealand Politics
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The denial of our past State abuse and the abuse occurring right now in the present
We refuse to look at abuse in state care because our cultural need to blame the beneficiary for being in such personal circumstances that require state intervention is what most angers middle Nu Zilind , NOT that the state then goes onto abuse, assault and sexually molest the taken children.
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Meanwhile the Planet melts – when will we admit global warming and climate change is here?
…the insane heat in Australia, the extreme weather events we are seeing here in NZ, the speeding up of melting glaciers and a North Pole facing hurricane winds spiking temperatures up in ways not witnessed before, this is global warming. This is what happens when you pump pollution into the environment without an sense of self control.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Starving Prisoners scavenging from bins inside prison
Our rations are meagre enough on Corrections $4 per day food budget without this carry on.
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Why Bill English triumphed at Big Gay Out
Yes the Labour and Greens were there in huge numbers showing the real, authentic and genuine support they have for the rainbow community, but in a week when Bill was on stage shearing sheep, all he had to do was make an appearance at the BGO to show that as PM he can at least tolerate being around the LGBTQ community
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Why Labour for me and why now?
For nine years I have watched communities disintegrate while some in our beautiful country have advanced.
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Christchurch City Council housing failure a tragedy for low-income families
The real devastating failure of the city rebuild is the plight of low-income families left high and dry by the Christchurch City Council.
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This is NZ poverty in 2017
Another example of how desperate the housing crisis has become and how quickly situations can escalate to homelessness for families.
This is a makeshift tent where a couple and their 2 children are living in my electorate.
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Naked Muslim hatred in Huntly needs compassion as a response
The mere sight of the headscarf that identified them as Muslim was enough for this torrent of rage and fury to erupt at innocent people just going about their day. This wasn’t the deep South, this wasn’t the hinterlands of nowhere, it’s bloody Huntly, barely an hour outside of Auckland, our largest metropolitan and cosmopolitan city.
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Greg O’Connor becomes Labour’s Ohariu Candidate – Little’s Broadchurch just got Bigger
This is how you win elections. The working class, the poor and migrant communities who bear the brunt of societal crime want to have their genuine fears addressed and a well known cop like O’Connor gives them the sense that their fears are being represented.