GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Cumulative pandemic deaths: a graph more effective than 1,000 words
A good graphic illustration is well-known to convey a much stronger message than words. For a long time this was…
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Nicola Sturgeon went woke and Nicola Sturgeon got broke
Wow. One of the great political voices for Scottish Independence steps down leaving a Jacinda similar wistfulness of what ifs…
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How much longer can New Zealand afford to carry the rich?
The Salvation Army released its State of the Nation 2023 report – Nga Rourou Whakaiti this week. It’s a depressing…
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Aotearoa: let’s decolonize our rip, shit and bust capitalism
The 2-hundred-year ‘weather event’ of Cyclone Gabrielle was a momentary deluge compared with NZs 200 years of colonisation. Let’s get…
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TWITTER WATCH: Green on Green friendly fire expose rifts
Russel Norman’s scathing criticism of James Shaw simply grows by the week now. As James throws a temper tantrum in…
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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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It’s time the rich of NZ paid a wealth tax to rebuild and adapt from climate change
The extraordinary rebuilding and adaptation costs NZ has to undertake must not be borne by the poor, it must be…
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Smug Hermit Kingdom – why degrowth sponge cities that have resilience and sustainability are our Isolationist hyper-regional climate warming future
For a very long time, climate change has been some theoretical future threat. The scientists have screamed at us. The…
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MEDIAWATCH: Weep with sadness – my imaginary TVNZ/RNZ public broadcasting programming line up
As NZ struggles to communicate during a natural emergency (because of our reliance on a cheap internet network rather than…
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Cyclone Gabrielle has exposed enormous structural frailties and inequalities while highlighting Kiwi’s stoicism and community kindness
We still don’t know how much damage Cyclone Gabrielle has caused us. The unprecedented scale of the disaster has impacted…