Go Hard, Jacinda. More Importantly, Go Early!
Waiting until 19 September to go to the polls, while constitutionally admirable, invites political disaster.
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 welfare system is dangerous to our COVID-19 future
As WEAG and CPAG have said multiple times, first fix the Act and frame our purposes and principles intelligently. That is the way to get the culture shift we will so desperately need.
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Open Letter To Maori MPs Please Vote Against Covid-19 Public Response Bill
I am writing to you as Maori MPs with a plea to vote against the Covid-19 Public Response Bill, and at the very least refer it to select committee for scrutiny.
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The Crowd That Booed
IT WAS THE LARGEST CROWD I had ever addressed – and it booed me.
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Unite still enforcing workers rights in fast food industry
McDonald’s in New Zealand has signed a new three-year collective agreement with Unite Union after union members voted 97% in favour.
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Matthew Hooton’s Selectivity
A good communicator and propagandist uses the pretence of reasoned argument to obscure their ulterior motives and manipulative persuasion techniques.
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The two Jacinda’s and hoping for a radicalism befitting our age
‘Courageous Jacinda’, when catastrophe has allowed compassionate leadership and Jacinda has taken the country with her. And ‘Cautious Jacinda’, when it’s come to delivering on Labour’s initial policy promises and hopes and goals.
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“We have put them on ice” – the climate crisis, child poverty, mental wellbeing & lifting Maori/Pacific incomes
Once again the most helplessly exposed of our citizens – those locked in generational deprivation in a land of plenty – have been sent to the back of the queue.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dr Liz Gordon – We have been ZoomBombed by CyberNazis!
The morning session started. There were three speakers, but before they got a chance to start, we had an unwelcome visitor.
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Join the online protest rally with Gaza for Nakba Day
Media representatives are invited to the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa’s second online rally with Gaza this Sunday evening at 7.00pm NZ time.