Dr Liz Gordon: At the Covid crossroads: return to level 4 now!
Maybe down here in the South Island we are some kind of neanderthal beasts, unable to comprehend all the clever arguments for letting the Covid virus have its way.
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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Why Is Labour So Frightened Of “Mr Stick”?
It is the Ardern-led Government’s unwillingness to follow the Ciceronian legal principle of “sulus populi suprema lex esto” – the safety of the people shall be the highest law – that lies at the heart of New Zealand’s rapidly deepening Covid-19 crisis.
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PODCAST: How Hindutva rightwing nationalism is concerning Indian communities around the world
https://youtu.be/npscKqNp0Rc https://eveningreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AVFA_October_07_2021.m4a LIVE PODCST: In this episode of A View from Afar political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss…
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Will Jacinda Stand? Or, Has She Already Fallen?
MATTHEW HOOTON has raised the possibility of Jacinda Ardern being gone by Christmas.
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Vaccination NOW: No Citizen Left Behind.
IF EVER Labour’s Māori Caucus had a duty to speak up for the people they represent, it was this past week.
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Does medical cannabis need a supermarket-style intervention?
The Government’s medical cannabis scheme is now in full effect, but strict rules have taken away products that are used by thousands of patients, letting billionaires corner the market and no obvious path for smaller growers. The solution may lie in applying the Commerce Commission’s thinking for supermarkets to the medicinal cannabis sector, with five small changes that could make a big difference.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Liberty and equality: the anti-lockdown marches
Many of the great civil rights movements of the postwar period stemmed from the desire of populations to be freed…
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On Brian Tamaki As Charismatic Frontman For The Commentariat’s Anti-Covid Control Agenda
Yesterday, everybody’s favourite opportunity for a Monty Python title-drop, Brian Tamaki, held a jamboree in Auckland’s Domain
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2021 British Labour Party Conference passes historic motion labeling Israel an apartheid state and calls for sanctions
The British Labour Party Annual Conference held in Brighton, England, from 25 to 29 September passed a comprehensive resolution condemning…
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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BORDER
As perhaps the only country still able to eliminate Covid Delta, because we can’t afford not to, and with many thousands of Kiwis unable to return from abroad because of a drastic MIQ facility shortage, it’s time to think outside the border;