Left Unsaid: What Andrew Little Didn’t Say In His Pre-Budget Speech
READING ANDREW LITTLE’S pre-Budget speech, one could almost be forgiven for thinking he was the leader of a socialist party. Almost.
Chris Trotter
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The Space To Make Dreams Come True: Why Labour’s Latest Move On Housing Could Be A Ground-Breaker
This is a major policy announcement from Labour’s housing spokesperson. By embracing the virtues of expansion over intensification, the party has repositioned itself as a defender of Auckland’s characteristic urban sprawl – and everything that goes with it.
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The European Song Conquest
JAMALA wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) for Ukraine with her controversial song “1944”.
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The Lessons Of Living Things: Contemplating Climate Change At The Ika Seafood Bar & Grill
We find it hard to accept that the knowledge we take for granted – like the shape of the world’s continents – can be changed. That the familiar transition of the seasons can be broken. That the planet our ancestors called “Mother Earth” is about to shuck off our species like a skin she has outgrown.
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The Number Of The Beast: The New Zealand Left’s Abiding Obsession With John Key
The Left constantly fails to register the brute realities of living in a society driven by the neoliberal imperatives of twenty-first century capitalism. In a world where the interests of the successful individual trump everybody else’s, avoiding and/or evading tax has become an industry in its own right.
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Four Limericks For A Friday Afternoon
1. A secretive lawyer named Whitney Looked after the interests of John Key. Till the sloppiest lob Nearly cost him…
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The People’s Wrath: Iraqi Protesters Demonstrate A New Way Of Petitioning Parliament
ON SATURDAY, 30 April 2016, thousands of supporters of the Iraqi religious leader, Moqtadr al-Sadr, stormed Baghdad’s “Green Zone” and forced their way into the Iraqi Parliament.
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Who They Gonna Call? If the going gets weird in 2017, the Right will turn to Winston Peters
Ray Parker Jnr’s catchy lyrics to the themesong of the 1984 hit movie, Ghostbusters, have taken on a special resonance in recent days, as a series of extraordinary revelations have further shaken John Key’s already unsettled government.