Pretending to be Pacific
What I do know is that over the years there have been many forms of people wanting us to look at them and “pretend that they’re Pacific”. MP’s show up to church at precisely the 3-year election cycle.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Labour and Pasifika-style leadership – can Cunliffe do it?
I’m convinced that under Cunliffe’s leadership Pasifika voters will both be inspired to the booth and others, back to Labour.
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Will Labour Take The Third Way?
Third way social democracy was never an ideology of or for the left. It was an experiment. Can Labour afford to experiment with Grant Robertson?
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Declaring for Camp Cunliffe: here’s why
David Cunliffe could be a reconstructive prime minister and lead a big change government.
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Normalising participation
Unasa is undoubtedly pioneering the way forward for Pasifika people, ethnic people and minority groups to have every confidence that they can stand just like anyone else, for the highest office in the city.
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Constitution to the people: “fix me”
Westminster democracy – even with all its flaws – works well when the balance between minority rights and majority power is well struck. In New Zealand, the balance is weighted towards the tyranny of the majority.