Hi-Viz Vengeance On Melbourne’s Streets
THE LAST PLACE a young, well-educated, socially-liberal, mask-wearing Melburnian should be found today (22/9/21) is on the streets of downtown…
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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LIVE Thurs @ Midday: Buchanan + Manning Deep-Dive into AUKUS Alliance
https://youtu.be/CJDv8PxnqIA A View from Afar – LIVE POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30 @ MIDDAY: In this podcast, Paul G. Buchanan and…
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Outdated Views? Andrea Vance On Sean Plunket
IT’S ONE OF THOSE throwaway lines which, precisely because so little conscious thought was given to it, tells us so much. The author, Andrea Vance, is an experienced political journalist working for Stuff. The subject of Vance’s throwaway line, Sean Plunket, is an equally experienced journalist. It was in her recent story about Plunket’s soon-to-be-launched online media product “The Platform”, that Vance wrote: “Plunket’s dalliances with controversy make it easy to paint him as a two-dimensional character: a right-wing, shock-jock with outdated views on privilege and race.”
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Working for Families isn’t working for poor families
The long promised WFF review has been conducted under wraps, all discussion and meetings in secret and with no consultation, least of all with those affected. While we can now see from the OIAs the direction of bureaucratic thinking, between the annoying redactions that is, it does not impress with either its vision or basic logic.
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Many anti-nuclear reasons to oppose AUKUS
There are multiple reasons for nuclear-free New Zealanders to be upset about Australia’s plan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Migration, mental health and murder
Did emigrating to New Zealand trigger some kind of psychotic episode for the mother? Did she have a pre-existing mental illness, and, if so, did Immigration NZ know about it? Or did something else entirely happen?
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Why I’m OK With NZ Not Being In New Anglo Alliance
Look, I’m no fan of the PRC – but I can’t help but recall how NZ’s previous entanglement in ANZUS worked out.
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Breaking the “cycle of impunity”
Late at night, on 2 September, Israeli war planes violated Lebanese airspace, terrorising people as they flew low over suburbs…
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Keep New Zealand Nuclear-Free – Stay Out of AUKUS!
THANK GOD New Zealand is not a member of the new “AUKUS” alliance. Australia, the United Kingdom and the United…
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The Indiscrete Charmlessness Of Upper-Class Rule-Breakers
THE UPPER-CLASS ABSCONDERS from Auckland’s Level 4 Lockdown have done the rest of New Zealand a favour. They have exposed, in the most dramatic terms, the true extent of the social gulf separating the wealthiest New Zealanders from the poorest.