UP UNTIL TUESDAY of last week I’d always thought of The Spinoff and Generation Zero as the good guys. A wee bit hipsterish perhaps, in the case of the former; a little hard to distinguish from the Green Party in the latter – but these were minor quibbles. Overall, both organisations came across as fresh, creative, and definitely on the side of the progressive angels.
Not anymore.
Ben Peterson is a Unite Union Organiser and is TDBs correspondent in Britain covering the fight and fallout of the British Labour Party Leadership contest.
Those of us interested in the marine environment either as fishers or as conservationists, have known for a long time that in general, current commercial fishing practices stink.
I’ve actually got some sympathy for Corrections, because it all started with a Court of Appeal decision refusing to accept from me the very argument the Supreme Court has now upheld was correct.
It was a pretty surreal moment in the High Court yesterday arguing with a High Court Lawyer how much I loathed Cameron Slater…
If you want someone to blame, look at the underfunded and burnt out public services who’ve become callous in their obligations to those in their care. If prisoner rights were at the forefront of Corrections priorities, the investigation to ensure they were being released at the right time would have occurred and demanded change.
The Aung family have beaten the odds.
As a refugee family from Myanmar, they have worked hard over the last four years to build a settled future for their three daughters in Hamilton.
On my first day I was immediately shocked that nobody was there to greet me and show me the area I would be assigned to work at. It was a very sloppy introduction. I had absolutely no clue where I was meant to be working.
Auckland is the largest Pacifica and Maori Urban city in the world, yet their voices, their aspirations and their reality is rarely ever listened to.
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