The Political Logic Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Red-baiting is about to get a new lease on life.
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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Semi-hysterical bosses show government is on the right track
The semi-hysterical response from employers to the Labour government’s mild (Oh so mild!) plans to reform Labour relations show the government is on the right track.
New Zealand is a low-wage economy after the crushing of unions in 1991 through the Employment Contracts Act and that’s the way the bosses love it.
And they are fighting to keep it that way.
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The Legacy of a Dismantled Prime Minister – Revisited
. . Following John Key’s sudden (and largely unexplained) resignation on 5 December 2016, I wrote a piece lamenting that…
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Misreporting the war in Yemen
UN officials are doing their best to achieve a political solution, but are not helped by a blatant misreporting of the nature of war.
Virtually every article in the Western media describes the opponents of the Saudis as “Iranian-backed Houthi rebels” and tries to portray the conflict as a “proxy war” between Iran and the Saudis.
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Dave Macpherson – Mental Health Inquiry Panel visiting our towns
Waikato DHB, and the psychiatric profession copped a hammering, again in equal parts, from current and former patients, from families and whanau, and also from a few community mental health sector staff whose frustrations mirrored those coming from the community itself.
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Hadley Grace Robinson-Lewis – Māori inequities in New-Zealand and the westernised health setting
Health professionals have a high level power over vulnerable people and therefore they are deemed responsible for equity in health outcomes, for those that are marginalised in today’s westernised society. People that are marginalised often face unfair cultural stigmatisation and racism. It is crucial that we treat Māori people with kindness, empathy and respect.
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Seven Days In Dhaka: Dying for Fast Fashion
The world has forgotten the survivors and the victims. The children being raised without parents have receded in our collective consciousness in the stampede to get to the next shop sale or mega mall opening.
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Why not say anti-Jewish?
Zionism exploits the tragedy of the Holocaust and uses the slur of ‘anti-Semitism’ to discredit all who demand an end to its violations of international humanitarian law.
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Changes to benefit sanctions regime welcome, but…
This is welcome news but it should be just the start of a new culture being imposed at WINZ.
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Employers On The Warpath
He’s a weak link that Iain Lees-Galloway. Ever since he backed away from his party’s solemn promise to repeal the hated “Hobbit Law”, it’s been clear that the guy isn’t what you’d call a tower of union-backing strength. Word is that the MBIE bureaucrats had him house-trained in a matter of days.