Dr Liz Gordon – Boag enabled Walker
Why would Michelle Boag, who has spent years constructing herself as a respected media commentator and consultant, risk it all by sending a list to Hamish Walker?
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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Are Walker and Boag National’s (and the Media’s) Designated Villains?
It would be nice to think that Hamish Walker and Michelle Boag “came clean” because of a belated attack of common decency. More likely, however, their confessions were driven by fear of the official inquiry into the leak ordered by Minister of Health, Chris Hipkins.
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Megan Woods should take a leaf out of Nicola Willis’ book
It’s always refreshing when a member of parliament admits their party made a mistake – not just a wee mistake but a big mistake which threatened the wellbeing of thousands of low-income New Zealanders.
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Why Kurt Taogaga Had To Go.
THE LABOUR PARTY delisted Kurt Taogaga for one very simple, very brutal, reason: to appease the mainstream news media.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Treat her bad, be mad: National’s election strategy
Looking at the weekend’s press releases from National, there is a clear theme coming through.
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The primary sector power paradox
Primary production and big business have the power, money is all, and low-quality jobs and industry are better than no jobs at all, even if profits go offshore.
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Cannabis Referendum’s Volatile Polls Show Every Vote Will Count – As Scientologists and Uncle SAM Exposed Behind Bob’s “Nope” Campaign
Two cannabis referendum polls were released this week, with one putting Yes in the lead and the other showing the opposite, but both showing support for Yes tracking upwards.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Border games
Do not be confused by the title of this document as a “conversation piece”. It may have emerged from a conversation between the three authors but it neither opens up a conversation nor provides much in the way of solutions. It expounds.
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Defending The Revolution
THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION, the very name unfurls like a crudely painted red banner.
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‘We must act now over gender-based violence,’ Dame Meg tells PNG
“Laws are part of our solution to protect those who are assaulted and attacked but that is not enough. The responsibility rests with every citizen. Our behaviour and our attitude and how we fashion the society we want to live in will deliver this homeland of ours.” – Open letter from Dame Meg Taylor to the people of Papua New Guinea