The panel on a Tiriti-compliant strategy for Aotearoa at the October 2018 hui on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like reminded us of the uniqueness of our challenges and opportunities.
THE RISE in the unemployment rate, from 3.9 to 4.3 percent, may not sound like a lot – but it is. Not only because it represents a further 10,000 New Zealanders officially without work, but also because it’s the sort of news no genuine progressive government ever wants to hear. If progressive government is about anything, then it’s first and foremost about constantly expanding the number of citizens in good jobs with good pay. Any progressive government confronted with a steadily rising tide of joblessness should expect to drown.
Who’s a big boy who can go to the toilet all on his own? You’re a big boy who can go to the toilet all on their own!
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The panel on a Tiriti-compliant strategy for Aotearoa at the October 2018 hui on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like reminded us of the uniqueness of our challenges and opportunities. Margaret Mutu led the discussion with reflections on constitutional transformation, most recently articulated in the report Matike Mai.
Next year New Zealand will vote to make cannabis legal. For a proper debate to be held it is important that those who most affected are not considered criminals and hunted with the full force of the state. Police should immediately call off their aerial snooping and spraying programme.
Saturday’s march in Venezuela opposed to the coup and in support of the government – ignored by world’s media
After six days of striking and mass mobilizations in the streets, Los Angeles teachers, joined on the picket lines and demonstrations by parents and students, won an important victory: holding the line against further privatization of the public schools.
The parents of Nicky Stevens, ruled by Coroner Wallace Bain to have died of suicide on or after March 9th…
As we reflect on what the Treaty of 1840 means for New Zealanders today it is worth remembering what this first Treaty actually promised – because over the last 30 years a succession of neoliberal governments have entered international trade treaties willfully ignoring the intent and spirit of our very first New Zealand Treaty .