The slow path to wage justice
Writing ironically, Anatole France said there’s a ‘majestic equality’ in the law that prohibits both the rich and the poor…
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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Dr Liz Gordon: Banning people from India: the right thing or racist policy?
I was just writing about how the surge in Covid cases in India was causing a spike in cases arriving…
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Dave Macpherson: Shock, Horror – Endless ‘Taxpayers’ Union Official Information Requests cost Hamilton ratepayers dearly
A Hamilton City Councillor has released results of an Official Information request showing ‘Taxpayers’ Union Official Information requests have cost…
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We Still Haven’t Found What We’re Looking For (With apologies to U2)
We studied the dialectic Read the whole of ‘Capital’ So we could follow you So we could follow you …
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Mike Hosking “De-Platforms” The PM
THE STAND-OFF between Newstalk-ZB’s star host, Mike Hosking, and the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, continues. Yesterday morning’s (7/4/21) encounter, the first since the PM discontinued her weekly interview with Newstalk’s morning host, was said to be the usual battle of wills. According to Hosking, it will also be the last.
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PODCAST: Buchanan and Manning on China + USA Construct Cold War-Styled Coalitions
https://youtu.be/whcu46qiFlQ A View from Afar – Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate: how in the last two weeks, China and…
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SPECIAL REPORT: Bureaucratic Silence Surrounds Immigration New Zealand Deportation Move – Is This a Case of Human Trafficking + Black Labour?
On Tuesday, March 30, we lodged a series of questions to the Minister of Immigration Kris Faafoi, seeking answers to allegations that 10 Chinese workers, who were detained in custody pending deportation orders, were in fact victims of a human trafficking scam.
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Insufficiently Qualified To Object: Why Labour Ministers Can Be Lied To With Impunity.
DAILY BLOG EDITOR, Martyn Bradbury, has lambasted the state bureaucracy for its failure to tell its political “masters” the truth….
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“Kill the Bill” protests in the UK a welcome response to proposed “paramilitary policing” laws
There is no sign of such a law change on the horizon here in Aotearoa but as sure as night follows day police here will, sooner or later, want to replicate these laws as protests against inequality, climate change and mass extinction inevitably intensify.
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Minister Kris Faafoi withdraws absconding charge against Chinese worker
The worker asked to speak to the Court and begged to be able to work in New Zealand so he could earn back the large amount of money paid in fees to get here and provide for his parents, wife and child back in China.