GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Conduct of Oranga Tamariki totally unacceptable
Today is a great day for our whānau and further proof that Oranga Tamariki must be devolved quite dramatically and…
New Zealand Politics
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Dr Liz Gordon: Hang your heads in shame
Those of you who follow my writings on various topics (how are you both today?) will know that the transformation of women’s prisons in Aotearoa is one of my passions.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – IN MY OPINION
New Zealand Trade Minister Damien O’Connor has suggested Australia has mishandled its relationship with China, saying it should follow his country in speaking with a “little more diplomacy”.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Please sign in to locations
Contact tracing is not a violation of your privacy rights because it is in the public good and cannot be used for any other purpose.
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This one image shows why we urgently need NZ rent riots now!
If you are a renter, you should be incandescent with rage that this Government won’t modify the unregulated property speculation market!
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Should we acknowledge climate crisis can’t be stopped? What would happen if we did?
These things are happening. Extreme climate change is here. Pretending anything we can do now will change the climate crisis seems insane, instead we should see this as the urgent moment to force radical adaptation to our country, especially because New Zealand will become a lifeboat and Ark as the planet burns.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Freedom of speech
A moment of reflection on the fact that we have laws about defamation and slander is proof, if proof were needed, that freedom of speech and opinion in everyday life has never been absolute and arises from the underlying principle that to have a civilized society requires being civil to each other.
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MEDIA WATCH: Wait – what? Anti-Semitism is going to be added to the Hate Speech fiasco???
If your solution to a white supremacy attack against Muslims is to make the word ‘Zionist’ hate speech against Jews, you seem to have been at the wrong massacre.
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Crusher lands her first political blow of 2021 with embarrassment of electoral wealths
Judith cleverly left Jacinda with the entire housing crisis to juggle on her own while keeping Covid out.
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Dr Liz Gordon: It was always going to be trouble
There is something very old-fashioned about this. The old cultural cringe of New Zealand, where people used to think that anything that is from outside our shores must be better, brighter, more innovative and more important than what we can produce ourselves.