Dr Liz Gordon – Racial politics now: Collins as the new Brash
On her very first day as Leader of the Opposition, Judith Collins positioned herself on the Donald Trump end of ethnic politics. “Is there something wrong with being white?”
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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The Judith Collins-Led National Party: Be Scared – Be Very Scared.
WHOEVER E-MAILED MARK RICHARDSON on Wednesday morning’s AM Show was right: Judith Collins scares me
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MUST READ: Has the National Party Become a Threat to National Security?
“Oh, come on!”, I hear you say, “The Nats aren’t that bad! This is paranoid political partisanship at its worst.” To which I would reply: “Mate, you haven’t being paying attention!”
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ACT NZ – To the simple minded all things are simple
ACT’s propositions are to further reduce the welfare safety net, and their “fair, modern employment insurance scheme” is a chimera designed to deceive.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Keeping people in
The ramping up of security makes me extremely uncomfortable. I disagree that the four (I think it is four, I have lost count) absconders should be treated as criminals. They are people whose stories need to be heard for the purpose of ensuring that the dreary process of isolation is lightened as much as possible.
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How to stop SkyCity ripping off the wage subsidy system
SkyCity is ripping off the wage subsidy system.
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Crying out for justice – silence is complicity
In the debate over Zionist territorial claims to Palestine, the voices of non-Zionist Jews are never given equal opportunity or respect.
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From nuclear refugees to climate justice – the Rainbow Warrior legacy
FLASHBACK 35 YEARS: The bombed ship’s pioneering environmental work has since been carried on by Rainbow Warrior II and the state-of-the-art eco campaign ship Rainbow Warrior III. Today the focus is on climate refugees, the lack of adequate health compensation for the Polynesians who suffered radiation and failure to provide proper clean-up of the French nuclear testing zones that are still off-limits after almost a quarter century. Tests were carried out by balloon, derrick, in the lagoon and in a series of underground shafts which have threatened the stability of the 60 km long atoll, leaving it fractured “like Swiss cheese”.
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UPDATED: Leadership, Vision, and Combating a Machiavellian Culture – Is Todd Muller National’s Solution?
Muller’s campaign vision was supposed to be a circuit-breaker. Instead, it left more questions than answers.
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Goodbye and good riddance to New Zealand biggest corporate bludger
A quick, back-of-an-envelope calculation shows that government electricity subsidies have been so high that the country would be better off with the smelter closed and the workers paid their full salaries for the rest of their lives. I wrote about this in a previous blog.