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		<title>Waatea News Column: After Waikeria Prison Riot &#8211; What Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis must be doing now</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After the lack of leadership displayed during the Waikeria Prison Riot, Minister Davis must be urgently reviewing the current state of the NZ prison muster.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column: For goodness sake &#8211; legalise cannabis now to create jobs!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2020 21:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The cannabis referendum is 5 months away, the moment it passes the Government must swing into action to allow the industry to start hiring people as soon as possible.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column: What happens next in Post-Pandemic New Zealand?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The important thing to understand moving forward is that there is not and can not be a 'post-pandemic New Zealand' until there is a vaccine.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column:  Maori taking pandemic matters into their own Tino rangatiratanga hands</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I salute those Māori who have taken matters into their own hands to police pandemic checkpoints and screen those entering their lands.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column: Can John Tamihere resurrect the Māori Party?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John Tamihere has entered the 2020 election as a candidate for the Māori Party in the Tamaki Makaurau electorate and if successful, could reshape the next Government.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column: National promises to gut worker rights and tenant rights if elected</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Daily Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It's an interesting tactic, but the National Party of New Zealand clearly believe that renters and workers won't bother voting in the 2020 election because they are promising that if National become the Government they will remove renter rights and scrap any plan to raise the minimum wage.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column:  The 5 big political issues for Maori in 2020 election</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2020, Māori will ask if their faith in Jacinda has justified putting all their eggs in Labour's basket, or whether extra Māori voices outside Labour are required to see real political sovereignty.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column: Why is the Politics of Kindness failing our poorest children?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2019 child poverty monitor report makes for grim reading...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column: ODT Cartoon outrage misplaced</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/waatea-news-column-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 05:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We should collectively be righteously appalled at the tone deaf ODT cartoon that made light of the terrible measles epidemic that has killed over 50 children in Samoa. It was an ugly 'joke' that shouted white privilege, but calls to boycott the ODT, sack the cartoonist and the enormous social media wave of fury seem to me to be grotesquely misplaced.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column:  Armed Police &#038; Cannabis prohibition &#8211; 2 examples of bias against Maori</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/waatea-news-column-armed-police-cannabis-prohibition-2-examples-of-bias-against-maori/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Daily Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 05:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The stats when it comes to Māori cannabis convictions and shootings by armed Police make for sobering reading.]]></description>
		
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