2023: The One To Lose
BRYCE EDWARDS, in this morning’s (10/3/22) edition of his excellent NZ Politics Daily, writes: “There is still a chance that…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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New drug-driving law ignores science, targets poor
The effects of a new drug-driving law passed by Parliament yesterday, which ignores the science around testing for impairment, will…
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Reports Of Labour’s Death …
THIS IS FROM one of Jacinda Ardern’s staunchest allies, The Daily Blog’s editor, Martyn Bradbury. He is not a happy…
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Why I oppose social insurance
It will probably be a surprise that someone whose day job is as a union advocate will oppose the proposed…
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Selective outrage
On 16 December 2021, the United Nations tabled Resolution A/RES/75/169, calling for ‘combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices…
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Buchanan + Manning – The Big Picture Behind Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep dive into the big picture that hangs over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That big picture has many aspects to it, and as such any resolution to the atrocities being committed in Ukraine will likely be weighed against what is a challenge to the International law and rules-based order.
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Demanding the government adopt an industrial-scale state house building programme
Housing groups are building a campaign to push the government into adopting an industrial-scale state house building programme. It follows…
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Conservatives and Revolutionaries: Together At Last!
WHAT HAS HAPPENED to the conservatives and the revolutionaries of this country? How is it possible that these two groups,…
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On Luxon’s Muscovite Specter Speech Purportedly Haunting The Nation
Like various recent National Party leaders before him, Christopher Luxon appears to have a bit of difficulty Reading The Room….
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The weapon of choice when you have no firearms
War is always ugly and brutal. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is no different, with Ukrainians feelings of powerless and…