In New Zealand, however, we are taxed to death and then when we need help we get denied our entitlements by a brutal system that seems dedicated to stopping people gaining access to help when they or other members in their family have an accident or are unemployed, sick, or are born or become disabled.
I hope one of the more experienced TDB Bloggers picks this up and uses it to light some fires elsewhere in the media. It would seem a wasted opportunity to let this study go unnoticed.
The Israeli journalist Gideon Levy warns, “If you want to know what callousness is, if you want to know what racism is, if you want to know what evil is, if you want to know what injustice is and if you want to know what malice looks like, Hebron …is the best place on earth to find out.”
First students from India were compared to faulty fridges from China by National list MP Kanwaljeet Bakshi and now National list MP Parmjeet Parmar is calling them “criminals”.
She serves the wealthy and the Government and not the people in need. How many houses can one person own in the midst of a housing crisis, with people sleeping in garages and cars?
The live stream of the Journalism, Media & Democracy 2016 Media Ownership Report yielded an incredible insight to how precarious the current state of journalism really is.
Key’s ability to promote empty aspiration and vacant optimism while the social statistics groan under his draconian neoliberal welfare state reforms is truly one of the great political swindles of the 21st century.
We think of human rights abuses occurring in far off places. But 4000 km to the North is a country that has been taken over as a prison. There are 1200 people held against their will. They were sent there for six months to processing their applications for refugee status. Three years later, they are trapped on Nauru in despair.
This annual New Zealand Media Ownership Report is the only one of its kind. To celebrate the release of this year’s report you are cordially invited to watch it live today here on The Daily Blog. To understand why our media behave the way they do, you need to know who owns them.
What is the National Government hiding and who are they protecting by refusing to hold an independent inquest into historic and current child abuse by State services?