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Why is New Zealand’s pandemic response (as of a few months ago, might I add) being blasted across Fox News in the US and presented as some sort of dystopian totalitarian FEMA internment camp ridden nightmare?
“A LEAP OF FAITH”, that’s what Greens co-leader Marama Davidson is said to have scribbled on her note-pad. She’s quite…
Recognising Palestine should be the first policy announcement of our new Foreign Minister after they are announced next week.
My sister, as both my avid readers will know, was forced to return to the UK in June to reinhabit…
The Green Party has settled on its negotiation team, agreeing to who will represent the party’s members when considering the shape and outcome of talks with the incoming Labour-led Government.
The gift of being able to live in a Covid-free community cannot be underestimated. It is an exceptional blessing.
THE DAILY BLOG’S Editor, Martyn (Bomber) Bradbury, is characterising the decisive 2020 election result as the Twilight of Boomer Power.
The dust has cleared. New Zealand’s electoral map and parliamentary chamber have changed decisively. Labour Red prevails and is able to legislate without impediment. Is this a victory for the Left?
New Zealand has voted on the world’s first national cannabis referendum. NORML’s Chris Fowlie explains how cannabis law reform will happen whatever the result.
THE TRUE MEASURE of Neoliberalism’s victory is the extent to which the Left now expects someone else to make the revolution.