A warning from The Economist
This article from The Economist is a bit difficult to extract the central facts from or understand their significance. So,…
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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EXCLUSIVE: The Prime Minister on One News last night – telling a huge porky
In response to a reporter asking why the government had demolished more state houses than it built in the past…
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Waitangi Day Worker Walk Out
20 hospo workers left the main gaming floor in Skycity Hamilton tonight, forcing top managers to give up their weekend…
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Waitangi Day 2022 – a stocktake of where we are
Treaty settlements: The most important understanding Aotearoa New Zealand should take from our current reality is that the big majority…
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PROGRESS AND POVERTY
If all the earnest essays ever posted on The Daily Blog have anything in common it is that they express…
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Something Entirely Different: Why Co-Governance Is A Very Bad Idea.
THE ADVOCATES OF CO-GOVERNANCE clearly believe it to be an idea whose hour has come. But, such is the temper…
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Kitset Solutions: Imagine Housing The Homeless For $15,000 Per Unit
A MATE OF MINE sent me an e-mail. “I guess no one told Phil Twyford about Ali Baba.” I followed…
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Government must pull out of Agritech seminar with apartheid state
In light of today’s Amnesty International declaration of Israel as an apartheid state, PSNA has renewed our demand for the…
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The OECD’s 4 charts on NZ’s housing unaffordability crisis from The Kaka
OECD cites RBNZ actions in big house price move Robertson and the Reserve Bank have previously denied responsibility for the…
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COVID CLAMOUR
With the numbers clamouring to travel showing no sign of abating the Government has appointed a London-based general agent whose…