Rugby, racism and the battle for the soul of Aotearoa New Zealand
The 1981 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand will always have a special place in any narrative about the international fight against apartheid in South Africa.
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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Against Self-Isolation For International Returnees
The thing about this self-isolation trial – and, for that matter, broader-scale self-isolation rather than MIQ facilities all up – is that people are GOING to do daft things.
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PODCAST: Covid-19 & Melanesian Instability with Buchanan + Manning + Dr David Robie
https://youtu.be/Xck7qIB33Mc https://eveningreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AVFA_August_12_2021.m4a Podcast Audio A VIEW FROM AFAR: In this episode, Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning are joined by Dr…
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MUST READ: Take Back Your Power! What A Real Labour-Green Government Might Do To Combat Climate Change
ON THE SAME DAY as the IPCC warned us of impending doom, half the country’s lights went out. It was…
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Dr Liz Gordon: On science
There is an academic field of study called the philosophy of science. It is concerned essentially with what constitutes scientific…
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Frail And Confused: National Succumbs To Political Alzheimer’s.
WHAT NEW ZEALAND WITNESSED over the weekend was the demise of the National Party.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Mediaworks and sexual harassment
Some of you, my readers, told me my findings could not be true. If you read the report, which was a sober and underplayed account of the data, you would know that it is. The accounts ring true in many ways. In total, over half of those who responded had been sexually harassed, often by those involved in boy culture group activities.
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Shared grief and understanding
Last month, in answer to a Parliamentary question in the UK, the Conservative MP James Cleverly replied, on behalf of…
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Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua
Just three months ago I wrote about this issue in my “Dear editor” article exposing the disinformation campaign. There was silence for a while but now the fake letters to the editor – and other media outlets – have started again in earnest.