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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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Dr Liz Gordon: Isolation
At school we studied the so-called great plague of 1665. While the understanding of how it was transmitted was not…
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Solidarity of working people needed for system change during crisis
The government’s announcements today are a useful start to combatting the impending crisis. There is an international economic recession unfolding that will cause many businesses to cut spending and slash jobs.
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“Are you OK, Boomer?” Countering The Chronophobic Malaise That’s Grown Up Around Covid-19
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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Capitalism, coronavirus and cronyism
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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The Grim Tutorial Of The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
WHY WERE SO FEW lessons learned from the deadly Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19?
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Abundant irrefutable evidence – bring Israel to account!
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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Dr Liz Gordon: Snapshots from an era of anxiety
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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MUST READ; Banking must be a public utility to solve the housing crisis
The entire banking system should be taken over as a public service
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Integrating Seamlessly With The Lowest Common Denominator
EVERYONE HAS HAD a good laugh at RNZ’s “Music Strategy” featuring “The Ten New Zealanders”.