Sticks And Stones – And Bullets.
Words didn’t kill 51 innocent human-beings on 15 March 2019 – bullets did.
Author: Chris Trotter
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New Arrangements: How Substituting ‘Aotearoa’ For ‘New Zealand’ Could End Up Destroying Both.
MENG FOON, currently serving as the Human Rights Commission’s Race Relations Commissioner, epitomises New Zealand’s emerging ethnic crisis.
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What Sort Of Technology Requires Clear Images Of People’s Faces – And Are The Police Still Operating It?
IT SEEMS PERFECTLY OBVIOUS to me why the Police are stopping and photographing young Maori and Pasifika New Zealanders.
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Will The Much-Criticised SIS Have The Last Laugh?
LEFT-WING NAIVETY is nothing new, but its power to astound and enrage has not diminished. The scorn heaped upon the…
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The Revolution All Around Us.
The clearest description of this revolution and its ultimate objectives that I have read so far is contained in a tweet posted in the name of Maori Party co-leader, Rawiri Waititi. To describe the tweet as jarring would be something of an understatement:
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When It Comes to Covid, the “Little People” Cast a Big Shadow.
The moment kindness stops working, the world will be amazed at how cruel ordinary New Zealanders can be.
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The Long March From The Bottom To The Top.
Real left-wingers, today, emulating the real left-wingers of the 1980s, would require those advocating top-down revolution to first obtain a bottom-up mandate.
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Suffer The Little Children: Neoliberalism’s Attack On Local Democracy Intensifies.
In the ears of the neoliberals, passionate policy debates register as little more than the whooping and chest-beating of Chimpanzees: mindless status displays; idiotic battles for recognition and dominance. Uncontrolled democracy drowns out the signals of the marketplace, making it impossible for the advice of those with the expertise needed to decode its messages to be heard.
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How Powerful Is Labour’s Maori Caucus?
THAT LABOUR’S MAORI CAUCUS is potentially powerful cannot be doubted. It is large, has a strong leader in Willie Jackson, and is surrounded by well-meaning Pakeha progressives who struggle to say “No” to its demands. For Maori, it is difficult to imagine a more encouraging political environment.
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The Strange (And Sad) Demise Of Radio New Zealand
How to explain such wilful cultural vandalism? What drives RNZ’s Generation X bosses to tear down the public broadcaster’s proud tower with such venomous spite?