Police, Tasers, Public Protest and the Public Interest
So when you are next on a demonstration check the police on duty and speak up if you see tasers on a police belt. Doing so means you are acting in the public interest.
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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Messages Received: Mark McGowan’s Landslide in WA Makes Jacinda’s Win Look Modest.
When the Coronavirus is finally defeated, however, Jacinda will need to find new evils to vanquish, and with an equal measure of success, or she, too, will pay the inevitable electoral price of failure.
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Voting Without Fear, With Open Eyes.
IT’S ONE OF THOSE STORIES that illustrates vividly the robust working-class culture of the trade union movement that was.
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The Mock Court of Public Opinion
If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. — Howard Zinn, historian and author
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Sticks And Stones – And Bullets.
Words didn’t kill 51 innocent human-beings on 15 March 2019 – bullets did.
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The violence and victims behind the news
With all the spectacle, barbarism and unfolding drama it feels like ringside seat at the Colosseum. It’s all stompings, smashings, gunshots, bodies discarded in the bush, hidden in car boots, abandoned, while loved ones despair. Behind the headlines these are real people, perpetrators, victims, families. This is real individual and social harm.
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New Arrangements: How Substituting ‘Aotearoa’ For ‘New Zealand’ Could End Up Destroying Both.
MENG FOON, currently serving as the Human Rights Commission’s Race Relations Commissioner, epitomises New Zealand’s emerging ethnic crisis.
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IRD, Treasury and MSD – Does the tail wag the dog?
The long overdue review of Working for Families has been signalled as part of the Government welfare overhaul work programme.
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What Sort Of Technology Requires Clear Images Of People’s Faces – And Are The Police Still Operating It?
IT SEEMS PERFECTLY OBVIOUS to me why the Police are stopping and photographing young Maori and Pasifika New Zealanders.
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Will The Much-Criticised SIS Have The Last Laugh?
LEFT-WING NAIVETY is nothing new, but its power to astound and enrage has not diminished. The scorn heaped upon the…