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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Re-Writing The Rules of the Game: Where Chile is Leading, Can Aotearoa-New Zealand Follow?
THE EYES OF THE LEFT, all around the world, should be on Chile.
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PODCAST: Manning and Buchanan on NZ’s National Security Strategy – Also Peru Voters Go Left
https://youtu.be/K13FshslWG8 https://eveningreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AVFA_June_10_2021.m4a A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar, where they…
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Kia ora Pete – Māori sovereignty vs Apartheid South Africa
In response to an earlier blog on the He Puapua report I’ve had some email correspondence from people opposed to what they see as separatism and favouritism towards Māori.
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Migrants have been ripped off by successive governments
A lot of people don’t actually know what happened in this country
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Don’t Blame the Bike Riders.
There’s a feeble joke on the internet where someone is arguing for world peace. They want no division between class, ethnicity, religion or other factions. They want unity – so that everyone can hate cyclists together.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Testing times
I have devised a test for the modern, male, National Party candidate. Just ten questions are all you need to test a person’s ability to be an MP. In the interests of trying to stop the rot (which is very rotten rot), I will donate this for free:
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On Recent Investigations Into The Lab-Leak Covid-19 Origins Theory
Probably the most interesting part of the recent investigation into the possibility of a “lab-leak” origin for Covid-19 … has…
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Who Poses the Bigger Threat: The Far Right, Or the Far Left?
EVEN THE HEADLINE is misleading: “How the SIS Missed the Threat of the Far Right”. Marc Dalder’s latest posting on the Newsroom site purports to offer evidence of the Service’s failure to adequately assess the danger posed to New Zealand society by Far Right and White Supremacist groups. In fact, from the documents Dalder relies upon, it is clear that the SIS assessed the threat potential of New Zealand’s right-wing extremists with considerable accuracy.
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New Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: “I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life and there’s no problem with that”
The just-announced formation of a new government in Israel is not a cause for celebration. For those who might think new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett must be an improvement after 12 years of appalling racism from Benjamin Netanyahu – think again!