HALucination: AI Journey Through Sight and Sound
Welcome to mid-2025, mid-twilight zone. Are we asking AI questions or is AI asking us questions? Is AI running tasks…
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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250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza
“This isn’t just a war against Gaza, it’s a war against journalism. Journalists are being targeted, killed and defamed. Without them, who will alert us to the famine?”
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Drawing Comparisons
Last week Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere was condemned for comparing New Zealand’s coalition Government with that of Germany’s…
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Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update: South China Sea becomes more dangerous
The evolution of land forces in the Pacific: Part One – ‘Island Hopping’ ‘Area-denial’ will be the defining tactical feature…
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PSNA legal challenge to NZ Superfund’s investments supporting illegal Israel settlements
The Palestine Solidarity Network has issued judicial review proceedings to challenge the New Zealand Superfund’s investments in companies helping to…
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Why is Erica Stanford Importing One Size Fits All Curriculum Ideas from Overseas?
In a recent article “Why Is the Government Implementing New Zealand Initiative Policies?” I explored the influences of the New…
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New Zealand challenged to vote for Israel’s suspension in United Nations
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is challenging the New Zealand government to support the move by Türkiye to vote to…
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Has the left lost its mind?
Why ask this when we have crazies on the right still trying to find the perfect implementation of neo-liberal economics…
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AI-dentity crisis: I can’t say why I can’t do that, Dave.
I’m using the laptop’s pre-installed Microsoft AI, Co-pilot, which I refer to as Hal. Hal was activated on the laptop in late…
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Something Smells About Crimson Education.
In early August there was a flurry of news items about proposed changes to NCEA. One of the people in…