Adapting To Climate Change.
IT IS ONLY SLOWLY DAWNING on climate change activists that the fight against global warming is lost. Locally, Cyclone Gabrielle…
Author: Chris Trotter
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The Privatisation Two-Step: Is Three Waters A Masterpiece Of Misdirection?
IF CABINET FAILS to scrap Three Waters and start again, New Zealand may very quickly come to resemble Bolivia. Not…
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A Modest Exercise in Arithmetic.
THE DAILY BLOG’S EDITOR, appears convinced that there exists in New Zealand a great silent majority of Treaty revisionists. He…
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Blowing Off The Froth: Why Chris Hipkins Must Ditch Three Waters.
THERE’S FROTH, AND THERE’S BEER. What we see happening on the Waitangi Treaty Grounds every 6 February, not to mention…
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After Ratana.
CHRIS HIPKINS found himself in an impossible situation yesterday (24/1/23). He had come to the tiny village of Ratana at…
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What Is Co-Governance?
CO-GOVERNANCE presents New Zealanders with the most acute constitutional challenge since the Land Wars of the 1860s. Paradoxically, it would…
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Making All Kinds Of Assumptions.
ONE OF THE MOST DISTURBING ASPECTS of race-based politics is the difficulty many citizens have in taking racially-driven change seriously….
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Kaipara: A Struggle For Political Legitimacy And Cultural Power
THE QUESTION dividing Kaipara’s electors, and the rest of New Zealand, is one of political legitimacy and cultural power. Whose…
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Jacinda’s Manic Ministry
LOOKING BACK over the five years this government has been in office, it’s hard not to feel depressed. Given the…
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Has Labour become a co-governed party?
THE MORE THE VOTERS DISCOVER about Labour’s Three Waters, the less they like it. No matter, this Government has clearly…