ANZAC Day: Remembering the futility of wars for empire!
Anzac Day should not glorify empire — it should remind us of the devastating human cost of war and those who resisted it.
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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Erica’s SMART Assessment System Isn’t Smart After All
Erica Stanford’s SMART assessment system promises clarity—but teachers say it means more paperwork and less education.
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“Why the Holocaust Centre is wrong to promote “exclusive” Holocaust education”?
Holocaust education should teach universal lessons about racism and genocide, not become a narrow political narrative.
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More Smoke and Mirrors from Erica Stanford
Erica Stanford says Year 8 maths is improving. The Ministry’s own numbers suggest the truth is more complicated.
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AI is exposing the failure of NZ’s knowledge curriculum
When AI can instantly generate essays and answers, the old education model starts collapsing fast. The real crisis isn’t students using AI, it’s politicians still pretending rote learning prepares kids for the future.
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Pacific Brief: Lots of activity in the South China Sea
The Pacific is entering a far more dangerous era. Japan is deploying missiles into the Philippines, Canada is rearming, and New Zealand is deepening military integration with Australia while China escalates pressure in the South China Sea.
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We are adrift without a vision except one of fiscal rectitude
When every problem gets answered with “cut spending”, it’s not policy — it’s ideology.
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PSNA says High Court Superfund decision a victory for Palestinian rights
The High Court says NZ Superfund’s human rights policy is unlawful. Now the real question: why were those protections stripped out?
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BEN MORGAN – Russia needs a victory this spring but probably won’t get one!
Russia needs a win — urgently. But Ukraine is grinding them down, Europe is waking up, and Putin may be running out of road faster than anyone expected.
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The Changes to NCEA Are A Class War
If every “reform” makes it easier for the privileged to win… is it still reform — or something else?
