Dr Liz Gordon: Stuff’s new strategy: how to lose friends
Grumpy? Me? Surely not!
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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Life in Lock Down: Day 28 – An Open Letter to Prime Minister Ardern
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Ardern
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Dr Liz Gordon: A letter to old blighty
My sister Christine came out to New Zealand from London for the summer, as she usually does. She arrived on Christmas Day for an eight-week stay. Now it is mid-April, and she is still here. Thank goodness.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 27 – and it’s been a shit day.
April 21: Day 27 of living in lock-down…
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MUST READ: NZ Military Getting Ready To Aid The Civil Power
IT WAS EASY to miss amidst the information overload of Lockdown at Level 4. A curiously thin news story, published by Stuff on 15 April, concerning “a routine military exercise” in South Auckland.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 26
April 20: Day 26 of living in lock-down…
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It’s 420 Day! How to celebrate cannabis safety under lockdown
Whatever you do for 420 today, stay safe in your bubble and may it be filled with pungent vapour.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Equity, education and economic recovery
In building the post Covid-19 world, we should reject all of these modes, but take the best from some of them. I think the three main themes need to be economic equity, a nation-building state and education.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 24 & 25
April 18: Day 24 of living in lock-down…
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Urgent action needed to raise and individualise benefits – first step to a basic income for all
I propose that for at least the next six months we should give all unemployed, sickness, invalid and sole parent beneficiaries a tax-free benefit equal to the net national superannuation rate for a single person – $425 a week with a tax on all other income of 39%. I will explain where I got this idea and how it will work a bit later.