After Ratana.
CHRIS HIPKINS found himself in an impossible situation yesterday (24/1/23). He had come to the tiny village of Ratana at…
Chris Trotter
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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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The Facts Don’t Always Tell The Truth.
WHAT WOULD YOU THINK of a man who offered himself for high political office with the following credentials? He was…
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Much Worse Than It Looks
THE REID RESEARCH POLL is much worse than it looks. Twelve months from now, when the actual voting papers, as…
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0-800-STASI
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS! Gerald stared at the words on the screen as if, somehow, he could make them…
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David Parker Rejects Co-Governance.
ON HIS “POLITIK” WEBSITE, Richard Harman reveals how Environment Minister David Parker upset the co-governance project. Labour’s Māori Caucus saw…
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Eliminating The Racism Virus.
UNWILLING TO ENDURE the opprobrium associated with its “gulags”, the Soviet Union of the 1970s changed tack. Rather than sending…