Reefer Madness follows criticism of cannabis referendum bill
What is driving two academics to criticise the Government’s information campaign for the cannabis referendum?
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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75 plus 35 years – the Hiroshima and Rainbow Warrior nuclear rewinds
While the globe struggles to cope with the deadly onslaught of the covid-19 pandemic, communicators, historians, journalists and activists have been deploying innovative ways of marking three nuclear-related anniversaries in barely a month.
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Does the Left know how to fix Capitalism?
Young New Zealanders who have grown up in the neoliberal era of low inflation, small and weak private sector unions, and low-to-stagnant income growth will find it difficult to imagine an annual inflation rate of 14 percent with wage rises to match
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Mainstream media desperately pump corporate “business as usual” messages to swamp and sideline alternative voices
Mainstream media have always pumped up corporate voices to crowd out alternatives and this last week they have been at it harder than usual.
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MUST READ: The Third Referendum
It is a sad – but entirely fair – question: Do any left-wing parties still exist in New Zealand?
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Dr Liz Gordon: The damage continues
Am I the only one out there wishing for some policy?
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Vote ACT for a shattered economy
Do you want more family distress and even deeper child poverty? Vote ACT.
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Policy, promises and praxis
Personality matters more than policy in the political age where parties are clustered at the extreme centre. Just ask Andrew Little.
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Mike Treen’s speech to Alternative Aotearoa conference
I want to address a sort of big question because clearly the system is breaking down. What is that system that is breaking down? Can we do a system reset by tinkering with that system or is a more fundamental change necessary? What is the nature of that change and how do we get there? All in ten minutes of course.
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The Disinformation Game
WHEN IT COMES to the disinformation game, the Russians have got “form”. Perhaps their most nefarious exercise in deceiving the world is the evil concoction known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.