Life in Lock Down: Day 14
April 8: Day 14 of living in lock-down…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
-
-
“Lord, give us Democratic Socialism – but not yet!”
IT PAINS ME to ignore the Prime Minister’s advice, but it’s time to kick some Labour Party butt.
-
Life in Lock Down: Day 13
April 7: Day 13 of living in lock-down… and unlucky for those who are superstitious. A day when there was a ray of sunshine from an otherwise bleak day of worrying signs.
-
Distress call from Gaza – New Zealand government must speak out urgently!
The Palestine Solidarity network Aotearoa has renewed its urgent appeal to the government to act in the face of a distress call issued from Gaza’s Ministry of Health to the world to provide laboratory testing materials for Coronaviruus which will run out this evening (today NZ time) at Gaza’s central laboratory.
-
Life in Lock Down: Day 12
April 6: Day 12 of living in lock-down…
-
MUST READ: A Lamentable Failure of Imagination
WHEN MATTHEW HOOTON is able to outflank the “Left” effortlessly on RNZ’s Nine-to-Noon something has gone very seriously wrong.
-
Post World war Two: A note on Minimum wages and a universal family benefit
In 1946, the year after the end of World War Two, New Zealand introduced a minimum wage that was 83% of the average wage and a universal family benefit of 10 shillings a week for every child. This benefit was made universal, tax-free and not means-tested.
-
Israel’s daily toll on Palestinian life, limb, liberty and land
The first quarter of 2020 ended with a total of 407 Israeli Gaza ceasefire violations, to which the Palestinian Resistance responded with 59 of their own
-
Life in Lock Down: Day 11
April 5: Day eleven of living in lock-down…
-
Life in Lock Down: Day 10
April 4: Day 10 of living in lock-down…