Dr Liz Gordon: A low-trust nation
What if you believed that people you know, or meet on the streets, or live next door to, are actively plotting to steal your handbag, improve their lives at your expense or occupy your space?
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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Save The Ship!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you discovered a deranged crew-member deliberately endangering the onboard atmosphere of your spacecraft? Obviously, the delicate mechanism responsible for scrubbing the air and keeping it breathable is absolutely crucial to the survival of the ship’s entire crew. If you allow the saboteur to continue his destruction, everyone on board will die. What is your optimal course of action?
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On John Roughan’s Curious Distaste For Journalistic Privilege
Now, I hesitate in the extreme to term The Herald’s John Roughan a “genius”. Yet every time I read one of his more “ideological” columns, that sort of sentiment seems to spring to mind. A sort of more-cynical/paranoid version of the famed ‘Hanlon’s Razor’ – “never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by stupidity”.
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Bubble wrap for council tenants – $15,000 rates rebates for luxury apartments in city centre.
Under Minto for Mayor every child in Christchurch will have a warm, dry home BEFORE the rugby union gets a new stadium.
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West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?
The groundswell of regional support continues to grow in the Pacific – and also globally – for West Papuan self-determination. The latest repression only adds to this momentum.
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Extinction rebellion should start with what’s on your plate
Animal agriculture is the elephant in the room regarding the climate change and biodiversity crisis.
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National and petrol taxes – when journalists get it right
It’s not often that it happens, but every so often one will stumble across examples of journalism that probes deeper than the immediacy of the here-and-now, and actually takes a step back in very recent history to put political events and utterances into context.
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The Fraud Estate & anti-Semitism
When I started as a newspaper cartoonist Keith Holyoake was Prime Minister, and Robert Muldoon was still a junior MP. And my understanding then of what a political cartoonist was had been shaped by those that Minhinnick produced each day in the NZ Herald.
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Ron Mark dodges questions forwarded from NZ PM’s Office
Following email exchanges with the Prime Minister’s Office featured in the previous blog, which included an email sent to both Ron Mark and Jacinda Ardern, we have yet to receive any response from the Defence Minister.
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Jacinda’s Library
SOME COSMOLOGISTS SAY that ours is but one of an infinite number of universes. It’s a wild thought, because, if they exist, this infinity of parallel universes grants us an infinity of parallel lives. Whatever we can imagine ourselves doing has already been done, is happening right now, or will be done at some point in the future, in one of these alternate worlds. In this universe we may be powerless paupers, but elsewhere – in at least one of these parallel universes – we are kings.