HeyJaredDr Bex on Social Issues in Aotearoa NZ
A collection of writing on food insecurity, community psychology, and disability related issues in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Further reflections after reading Dirty Work (opens the original)
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I finished reading Nicky Hager’s book, Dirty Work, this morning. It’s a riveting read. In it, Nicky details much of what many of us had suspected was occurring - the very rich are laundering their policy agenda and societal ideologies through third party operatives, such as the Taxpayers Union and the Free Speech Union. TU and FSU deliberately create multiple groups to give the illusion of grass roots community support - but it’s all the same people and all the same money and the same end goal:
Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work (opens the original)
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The launch of Nicky Hager’s latest book, Dirty Work, was all across social media and news outlets last night. Unity Books sold out at the launch. Online sales crashed. Too impatient to order online, I picked one up first thing this morning (after delivering the teens to school) from the local bookseller. <div cl
Let them eat their parents’ cake (opens the original)
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National, NZ First, and ACT have deliberately and cruelly targeted 18 and 19-year-olds living in households with their latest legislation. In this post, Dr Kimberly Jackson unpacks how this legislation harms young adults, and provides a searing insight into how this government manufactures problems it then fails to solve.Dr Bex on Social Issues in Aotearoa NZ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<fo
The Cost of Disability is Driving Poverty (opens the original)
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It was an absolute privilege to speak at the launch of the CPAG Manifesto to Reduce Child Poverty last week. I remain incredibly angry that this government's policies are driving more and more of our families further into poverty and hardship.There are over 35,000 households with a disabled family member who are living in material hardship1 right now.<sp
We have tools to solve housing and homelessness (opens the original)
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The Minister for Housing, Chris Bishop, was in the news wringing his hands about housing recently: Housing an 'enormous challenge' in this country, housing minister Chris Bishop admits. Yet, since the coalition was elected, landlords have received benefits equivalent to more than 25 years of Treaty settlement redress: Cost of landlord tax break increased by $80
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