Dr Liz Gordon – No open borders for at least a year
What we have learned this week, with absolute clarity, is that our borders will have to remain closed for a long time to come.
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 bottleneck for almost everything – only 250 people a day can enter NZ
In an interview with the Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway on Radio NZ last week it became clear that the entire country is now hostage to a bottleneck in the managed isolation/quarantine system that means only 250 people a day can be allowed into New Zealand.
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MUST READ: Snakes and Mirrors – National Sat On Covid-19 Infection Information For Hours Before Dropping Political Bombshell In Parliament
It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their want to GET their opponents – the Ardern Government – ahead of concerns that Covid-19 was potentially un-contained and again infecting New Zealanders. Is this a step too far for the Todd Muller-led party?
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Flat Earthers: For how much longer must New Zealand be damaged by Neoliberalism’s demented perceptions of reality?
The events of the past few days: the appalling failure of our neoliberalised state sector to keep our borders secure from the threat of the Covis-19 virus; ought to produce the same reaction from its defenders as a person who, having jumped off a roof, mysteriously finds himself failing to float gently to the ground.
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But What Of The Real Culprits ? Covid Quarantine Crisis And The Rush To Judgement And Blame
Phrased another way: I have no reason to doubt that Bloomfield et co, and even the hapless David Clark *genuinely* believed they were in possession of the facts. That procedures were being followed. That we *were* in possession of what we said we were, doing what we said we were doing, things working basically as they almost ideally should.
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A Vigorous Rearrangement of Deck Chairs: Heather Simpson’s Neoliberal Prescription For New Zealand’s Health System
MUCH WILL BE WRITTEN about Heather Simpson’s plans for the New Zealand health system.
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Covid, culture and USP’s fight to save academic freedom
Associate Professor Tarcisius Kabutaulaka accuses a small group of people of “selfishly and disrespectfully desecrating” this “sacred place of learning” for the Pacific which celebrated a half century two years ago.
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Something Very Big.
IT’S DOUBTFUL whether many of those applauding the current US protests grasp fully the enormity of what is happening there.
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Statues not the only edifices to fall?
Despite the rush to return to the economy of pre-Covid-19, statues are not the only edifices we should seek to dismantle.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Should we have stayed?
Quoting Matt McCarten last Friday, Chris Trotter posits that “we should have stayed” in the Labour Party in 1989, after neo-liberal policies swept through the party like a coronavirus. This is all very well to say, but I think Matt/Chris might by now have forgotten what it was like then.