Setting the Agenda

Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.

Curwen Rolinson · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

“Are you OK, Boomer?” Countering The Chronophobic Malaise That’s Grown Up Around Covid-19
ByCurwen Ares Rolinson 18 March 2020

I’ve been pretty disquieted about some of the rhetoric that’s been going around the place along with Covid-19. Yes, we know that the health impacts are disproportionately severe for people over sixty. Yes, we know that in many Anglosphere countries, there is an occasionally pretty understandable annoyance on the part of younger people against the regrettably not-always-that-imaginary stereotype of Der Boomer.

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John Minto · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Capitalism, coronavirus and cronyism
ByJohn Minto 18 March 2020

Saving businesses is the first priority – workers losing their jobs are collateral damage and, after minimal help, will have to fend for themselves.

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Chris Trotter · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

The Grim Tutorial Of The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
ByThe Daily Blog 17 March 2020

WHY WERE SO FEW lessons learned from the deadly Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19?

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Leslie Bravery · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Abundant irrefutable evidence – bring Israel to account!
ByLeslie Bravery 17 March 2020

February saw a massive increase in the number of Gaza ceasefire violations by Palestinian Resistance fighters. In comparison with January, which saw seven such violations, there were 51 attacks in February, one of which directly targeted the Israeli military.

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Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Dr Liz Gordon: Snapshots from an era of anxiety
ByThe Daily Blog 16 March 2020

Muslims report today that things are not better for them, despite the call of ‘we are all one together – tatou, tatou’. The opportunity for real change has perhaps passed us by.

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Mike Treen · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

MUST READ; Banking must be a public utility to solve the housing crisis
ByThe Daily Blog 13 March 2020

The entire banking system should be taken over as a public service

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Chris Trotter · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Integrating Seamlessly With The Lowest Common Denominator
ByThe Daily Blog 13 March 2020

EVERYONE HAS HAD a good laugh at RNZ’s “Music Strategy” featuring “The Ten New Zealanders”.

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Chris Fowlie · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Medicinal cannabis wins and polls point to cannabis referendum’s recipe for success
ByThe Daily Blog 12 March 2020

Improvements to New Zealand’s new medicinal cannabis scheme – together with recent polling – suggest how we can win the cannabis referendum, writes Chris Fowlie.

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Chris Trotter · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Forgetting To Remember New Zealand’s Racist Election.
ByThe Daily Blog 12 March 2020

WHAT’S WRONG with our journalists? Why do so many reporters and columnists memories appear to fail them? Only this morning, the veteranNZ Herald columnist, Brian Rudman, contributed yet another lapse to the Fourth Estate’s growing tally of memory malfunctions. He’s one of theHerald’s best, of course, with years of intelligent and splendidly trenchant commentary behind him, but today’s memory fade is every bit as egregious as the historical deficiencies so apparent in the writing of much younger journalists.

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Christine Rose · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

Why an economic correction isn’t the end of the World
ByThe Daily Blog 11 March 2020

The Novel Corona Virus and potential recession may provide an opportunity to reconsider the social and economic settings that have led to political and environmental instability around the world.

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