“No Jab, No Job!” – Preventing The Injury Of All By One
ALL TRADE UNIONISTS are familiar with the slogan: “An injury to one is an injury to all.”
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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A Disturbing Preoccupation: Why the Right-Wing Media Hates Jacinda’s Covid Elimination Strategy.
THERE IS SOMETHING DECIDEDLY SINISTER about the way the right-wing media is pursuing the “elimination strategy is madness” argument so doggedly.
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PODCAST: Pacific Instability + Afghanistan Deadline Looms – Buchanan + Manning + Robie
In the first half of this week’s podcast Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan will be joined by Dr David Robie to further examine what’s going on in: New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa. In the second half, Buchanan and Manning analyse the latest on Afghanistan. How the USA’s humiliating retreat signals the end of liberal internationalism.
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Apology to Groundswell – a claim in my blogpost was wrong
In my open letter to Groundswell I said Groundswell NZ had organised farmer meetings where anti-semitic conspiracy theories were presented by a spokesperson for Agriculture Action Group.
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Dr Liz Gordon: A response to ‘an isolated dystopia’: New Zealand’s successful pursuit of Covid elimination
It never takes much for the Tory establishment to show its true colours, and here they are again, attacking New…
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Labour Must Uphold The Rule Of Law
WHEN DAILY BLOG Editor, Martyn Bradbury, says Labour’s lucky the country’s currently distracted by the Covid-19 Delta Variant, he’s right. Were New Zealand safe and out of Lockdown, it would be in the midst of a dangerously divisive row about Oranga Tamariki, the Judiciary, Race, and the Rule of Law.
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Davey Edward, Rainbow Warrior campaigner at Rongelap, dies at 68
Dave Edward, chief engineer on board the first Rainbow Warrior when it was bombed by French secret agents in Auckland in 1985, has died at 68. He campaigned for many years for the the protection of the environment including the Antarctic, was on the humanitarian voyage to Rongelap Atoll, and protested against French and US nuclear tests.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Housing – We can’t build our way out of this housing affordability crisis
On Friday August 20 the Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr told Bloomberg that a fundamental imbalance in the New Zealand economy is a lack of supply within the residential housing market. But will a supply correction alone resolve New Zealand’s affordable housing crisis? Stephen Minto analyses this question.
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Afghanistan – those who supported the invasion are desperately trying to rewrite history
I marched against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and against the US-led invasion in 2001. In both cases…
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