Open letter response to Winston Peters defence of Israel
On 25 September, Foreign Affairs Minister, Winston Peters, replied to our email sent to him on 25 August. Here is our response to his reply:
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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Greed Is Not Good – But It Can Make Good Things Happen.
New Zealand was once known as the social laboratory of the world; why should it not turn itself into the planet’s climate laboratory? Directing our energy outward is the only viable survival strategy available to New Zealanders. There are no walls that we could possibly hope to build, high enough to keep us safe.
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If The Queen Saves Boris, Will God Save The Queen?
THE SUPREME COURT of the United Kingdom has struck down Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament and some people are cheering.
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On Bridges On Jacinda On Trade Talks With Trump
I gotta say – it’s rather odd seeing Simon Bridges attempt to attack Jacinda Ardern for not attempting to press Donald J. Trump on climate change, at their meeting earlier this week.
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Ihumātao – What Pākehā should *NOT* do
With some historical and present context, it should become readily apparent to Pakeha that the occupation at Ihumātao is not a free-for-all conflict for any and everyone to become involved in.
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Rethinking Brexit: A review of Costas Lapavitsas’ The Left Case Against the EU (London, Polity 2019)
As the overnight UK Supreme Court rules that the actions of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was “unlawful void and of no effect”, Dr Wayne Hope re-examines the case to leave Brexit.
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Dr Liz Gordon: The school decile debate
It will cost a fortune and yet will barely make a difference to the actual funding that schools receive.
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Local Government Needs Actors – Not Mirrors.
OH DEAR, oh dear, oh dear! Why can’t voters do more to meet the expectations of local government bureaucrats, political scientists, sociologists, progressive activists and woke columnists? Their willingness to tick the boxes of “pale, stale, males” calls into question their fitness to hold the franchise at all.
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Electile Dysfunction and the Struggle to Get up to Vote
I’m suffering from electile dysfunction. -The inability to be aroused by any of the candidates standing for election in the upcoming local government contest.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Turning things around
I don’t often hear things that genuinely surprise me, but a talk I heard at the weekend’s ‘Impact Summit’ was an exception.