The PressPatron Post
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-- Issue Nine: 11 November 2019 --

Welcome to the latest edition of The PressPatron Post! Each week we share impactful stories from across our community of New Zealand media sites.

In this week's edition: reflecting on the Halt All Racist Tours movement, reinventing the financial system for a better society, the rescue of starving chickens from a 'free range' farm, improving our child welfare system, and more.

Below you will find some of the best investigations, analysis and opinion pieces that have resonated with local supporters of independent media. Let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback about our newsletter.
Alex Clark (Founder/ CEO)

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'Neither forgotten nor forgiven'

"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Halt All Racist Tours movement (HART) [...] In New Zealand, unlike anywhere else, South Africa’s racist sports practices had been the subject of Māori protest since the end of World War I."

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Reinventing the financial system

"If we are to effectively tackle climate change and achieve our other environmental, economic and social goals there needs to be a complete reinvention of the financial sector and its 'world view'."

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Armed police patrols are a dangerous response to a non-existent problem

"On Friday it was announced that Armed Offenders Squad patrols will be trialled in Counties Manukau, Waikato and Canterbury over the next six months. The data suggests this will increase police violence and unfairly target Māori"

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Starving chickens rescued from failed free-range farm

"Thousands of chickens, many in very poor condition, have been rescued from a rundown free-range farm in West Auckland.When Newsroom visited Best Eggs in Massey, it found that thousands of chickens had been living in extremely overcrowded shipping containers."

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Rawinia Higgins: Regenerating the reo

"Rawinia Higgins was lucky enough to be born into a family with no shortage of proficient te reo speakers, so even though English was her first language, she had more than her fair share of whānau to help her become fluent in Māori. Not that it’s been a breeze. Here she tells Dale how she went from being in a remedial reo class at Rūātoki, to the Māori Language Commissioner leading the work of revitalising the reo."

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Announcing The Spinoff Money

"For decades, the relationship between most New Zealanders and money was broadly stable, baked into a set of milestones it was assumed all aspired to and would achieve if they strived. [...] Now we’re in a society which still acts like that linear progression to wealth and security still exists, while providing far fewer of its citizens the ability to achieve it."

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One small step for OT, one giant leap for human rights

"One change arising from the searing internal report into how the Ministry for Children tried to forcibly take a baby from its mother could have profound and beneficial effects for the rights of parents and families."

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