Medicinal cannabis wins and polls point to cannabis referendum’s recipe for success
Improvements to New Zealand’s new medicinal cannabis scheme – together with recent polling – suggest how we can win the cannabis referendum, writes Chris Fowlie.
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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Forgetting To Remember New Zealand’s Racist Election.
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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Why an economic correction isn’t the end of the World
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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Jeanette Fitzsimons: 1945-2020. An Assessment
What then, we are left to wonder, did Fitzsimons make of the Green Party in 2020? Did she see it as a source of pride, or as a cause for concern?
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The only constant in Israeli political leadership is racism towards Palestinians
The post-election debate in Israel has heated up over the weekend.
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Family calls for emergency measures on 5th Anniversary of Nicky Stevens death
Monday the 9th of March is the 5th anniversary of our son Nicky’s death. It’s a very difficult time for our whanau.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Can you be a change agent in parliament?
RIP Jeanette Fitzsimons: a lovely, gentle, and yet determined person who never gave up her vision for, and work towards, environmental change.
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MUST READ: A crisis is coming – we need a Green New Deal to confront it
We need a Green New Deal that prioritises people and the planet above the pursuit of profit by the 1% class of private owners of the monopoly corporations that dominate all economic life. A Green New Deal can be the step towards the new system we need. It already has a name.
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MUST READ: Virality and Globalisation: The case of Covid-19
The human consequences are, and will be, substantial. Countries and regions with weak, underfunded health infrastructures may be overwhelmed. National and community health campaigns involving quarantines, hygiene initiatives and communication updates will be less available to poor populations with little media access. In New Zealand, the virus should be manageable, if the spread is not too rapid, and if the fatality rate does not spike because of biological mutation.
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Remembering Jeanette Fitzsimons, a great Green
The news of Jeanette Fitzsimons’ death is so sad for me as a friend and former parliamentary colleague. She symbolized Green politics and was totally committed to the welfare of the planet and the people on it.