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IS THE EDITOR of The Daily Blog correct? Would New Zealanders benefit from the creation a state-owned supermarket chain? Unburdened by the obligation to return a healthy dividend to private shareholders, would “KiwiShop” really be free to supply the highest quality food and groceries to the public at the lowest possible prices?
Yamin Kogoya: “These crimes against Papuans hardly get resolved, and perpetrators walk free while victims get punished. This inhumane treatment brings to mind the tragic killing of George Floyd.”
CONSIDERABLE ANGST has been expressed by those of a sensitive disposition at the recent eruption of irrationality in Sydney. “How…
https://youtu.be/j2ZmyUav3n0 A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar, with a…
THE GREENS would like to see New Zealand’s dairy herd diminished … substantially. Not only would this go a long…
Israel’s Gaza ceasefire violations continue to go unreported by the mainstream news media. From 6-21 July (inclusive) there have been…
Moana activists, campaigners, scholars, researchers and Green MPs gathered last Sunday in a show of solidarity for Tahiti’s Ma’ohi Lives Matter rally at Auckland University of Technology and vowed to work towards independence for the French-occupied Pacific territory.
WELLINGTON HARBOUR was always worth looking at. Sipping thoughtfully at his cup of Earl Grey, Adam Freeman took in the…
By now, news of the Pegasus spying scandal has made its way across the world. And I think that, rather than the Western-oriented outcry which is currently also sweeping the media-sphere, taking a look at India’s situation is quite instructive here in order to garner a more true picture of what’s actually been going on.
I must confess myself slightly perplexed at the “outrage” that the Government put $250,000 into working out how to do comms for its Covid-19 strategy. I mean, think about what was involved at every step – what New Zealanders were being asked to do.