MUST READ: Marching To Class War
Today we learn that Business New Zealand has refused to partner with the State and the NZ Council of Trade Unions (CTU) in the roll-out of Labour’s long-awaited – and well-mandated – Fair Pay Agreements.
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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OLYMPIC BOYCOTT – REAL MORAL OUTRAGE
That, the United States of America, claiming moral outrage, can call for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics, is hypocrisy in the extreme.
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Sitting Next To Cousin Simon
EVERY FAMILY HAS ONE. You must know the sort. One of the Baby Boom generation, who desperately wishes he wasn’t….
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Dr Liz Gordon: Mine is bigger than yours
I listened to the first parliamentary question that Christopher Luxon asked of Jacinda Ardern today.
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Open Response to Nanaia Mahuta
On 3 December, New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Nanaia Mahuta, replied to our Open Letter questions published in The Daily…
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A deep and satisfying love affair
One of the more shameful aspects of our foreign policy is our two-tier approach to human rights abuses.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Our road to mediocrity
If Christopher Luxon views people who do not scale the heights of running Air New Zealand as being swathed in mediocrity, then I have a real problem with him.
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Onward Luxon’s Soldiers
(Sung to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers)
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Raising West Papua’s banned Morning Star flag – a global act of solidarity
From Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau in Aotearoa New Zealand to Paris, France, and from Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara to Jayapura and far beyond, thousands of people across the world today raised the Morning Star flag — banned by Indonesian authorities — in simple acts of defiance and solidarity with West Papuans.
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MUST READ: The Fellowship Of The Upper Room
Why not admit frankly to his membership of the Upper Room? What is it about this Fellowship that prompts Luxon and his advisers to make as little of it as possible? The answer lies in the information unearthed by the sort of journalists who know where to go looking on the Internet for linkages between evangelical Christian fellowships and ambitious right-wing politicians.