A Polish Joke – At The Planet’s Expense
KATOWICE, SILESIA. Polish humour, yes? To stage a critical conference on Climate Change in the heart of Poland’s coalfields just has to be a joke. Right?
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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Dave Macpherson: Parents of Nicky Stevens call for stronger suicide reduction target than Inquiry suggests
“What we now want is for mental health to no longer be a political football, and for all the Parliamentary parties to get their heads together around a mental health improvement programme that all of them will sign up to going into the future.”
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Dr Liz Gordon: The state of the States
Just back from a week’s holiday in Hawaii which, by virtue of colonisation and capitalism, became the 50th State of the USA in 1959. As a series of Pacific Islands, it sits quite uncomfortably within the union of States. For example, the department stores were full of winter clothes, including coats, but Hawaii has no winter, the only ‘seasons’ being rainy and not-rainy.
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Will the Tax Working Group actually address housing inequality?
Inequality is a number one issue for Western countries like the US, UK Australia and New Zealand. It not the same as the poverty issue. The growth in extreme income and wealth differences has gathered momentum as tax-free gains accumulated at the top end compound asset values, while disadvantage and debt compound negatively at the bottom end. The fortunes of the top and the bottom are inextricably linked. To begin to reverse the growing wealth divide, policy must address the balance sheets of both.
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Raining On The White Tribe’s Parade
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? The people who decided it would be a good idea to take Santa out of the Nelson Santa Parade?
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Labour’s declining share of national income
The economist for the Council of Trade Unions Bill Rosenberg has produced some revealing data about the resumption of the declining share of labour income in the New Zealand economy in the most recent CTU economic Bulletin.
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MUST READ: New Zealand’s economy depends on Chinese mothers NOT breastfeeding their babies
How did it come to this?
New Zealand’s economy now depends on more Chinese mothers NOT breastfeeding their babies.
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West Papuan ‘independence day’ – nationalist militia attack rally in Surabaya
Police later raided Papuan student dormitories in the evening and detained 233 students in a day of human rights violations as Indonesian authorities cracked down on demonstrations marking December 1 – “independence day”, according to protesters.
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A Tom Scott cartoon on Saudi Arabia…
Some things never seem to change.
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Winston lacks spine on America – another disappointment from an MP who should know better
We asked Mr Peters for a clear and reasonably prompt response to our questions concerning the alarming tenor of Bolton’s speech and present US policy regarding US relations with the ICC. We also asked the Foreign Affairs Minister for clear indications of New Zealand’s policy in defence of Palestinian human rights and international law.