Dr Liz Gordon: Welfare and Education
The parlous state of schooling, which, despite the best effort of the Tomorrow’s Schools working party, has barely been addressed in this government’s term.
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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Driving Out The Money-Changers of Reactionary Christianity
It should not have taken the Covid-19 Pandemic to expose the tremendous danger posed to New Zealand society by this authoritarian, anti-science, anti-social and reclusive mutation of Christianity. The Left, especially, has been remiss in not assailing its gross exploitation of Maori and Pasifika believers.
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Sanctifying The Sub-Cluster – What Needs Now To Happen Following Mt Roskill Evangelical Church Covid-19 Outbreak
Like many New Zealanders, I felt that the news coming through yesterday that some “science-disbelieving” Evangelical church had produced itself a sub-cluster of Covid-19 seemed a cold slap in the face.
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Winning Joke: Why the Traditional Left will just have to live with Rainy-Day Robertson’s disappointing tax policy
EVEN IN the rapidly gentrifying Auckland suburb of Three Kings, the wailing of the Traditional Left was clearly audible. “Thirty-nine percent! Is that it? Even when, as you so helpfully point out, Grant, Australia’s top tax rate is 47 percent! Seriously, are you guys taking the piss? Is this some kind of joke?”
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The battle over time under late capitalism – time for a four day week
I want to celebrate the promise from Labour and the Greens that we will get another public holiday to celebrate Matarike – the star cluster that Maori use to mark the new year’s arrival.
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Here we go again – trucking companies want more state subsidies for their road-destroying businesses
“Truckers demand billion dollar spend to fix dilapidated roads” is just the latest in a decades-long history of trucking companies with their hands out to us for the destruction their trucks cause to our roads.
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Government of the Media, by the Media, for The Media.
I MUST HAVE MISSED the news bulletin in which the appointment of Jack Tame as People’s Prosecutor was announced.
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Seeking justice for Palestine
From 13-26 August, there were five Palestinian Gaza ceasefire violations featuring missile launches. Over the same period, there were 116…
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JAMES SHAW APOLOGISES TO ROD DONALD AND JEANETTE FITZSIMONS
(To the tune of Paul McCartney’s “Uncle Albert – Admiral Halsey”)
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Shifting Sands
IT’S THE PERFECT PARABLE for capitalism. Set in Morocco, it’s about the sand that’s fast disappearing from the country’s tourist beaches.