Will Christchurch become first New Zealand city to sanction Israel?
Christchurch City Council is due to vote on a resolution to amend its procurement policy to exclude companies building and…
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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We Are The Goodies! Trotter’s Fantasy and Fanaticism.
“Are we the baddies?” asks Chris Trotter in his latest From the Left column for The Democracy Project (17/10/2024). He…
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Russian manoeuvre offensive culminating?
Since the last update, the land campaign has remained relatively static, both sides locked in an attritional struggle. In the…
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Pacific Update: China exercises near Taiwan, US and its partners exercise too
October is a busy month in the South and East China Seas. Both China and the US both conducting…
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Weekly protests are extending further around the country as Israel runs riot and our government’s policy of appeasement towards Israel fails dramatically
Details of our weekly solidarity protests around the country are listed at the end of this letter sent to the…
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Wreck of the HMNZS Manawanui – submerging fiction, emerging facts.
Before attempting to discern the facts from the sparse information given by the New Zealand Defence Force (and fitting it…
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If foodbanks were the answer, can underfunding them be the solution?
To our shame foodbanks are huge growth industry in Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s both a puzzle and contradiction. What economist…
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Iwi v. Peewee – How Seymour lost the Treaty principles debate
The Treaty Principles debate on Tuesday’s ‘The Working Group’ – the first with David Seymour – was a runaway success…
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“Extermination” in Gaza – Where are you Christopher Luxon? Winston Peters? David Seymour?
Thousands will march for Palestine across Aotearoa this weekend as UN investigators accuse Israel of deliberately targeting Gaza’s health facilities…
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HMNZS Manawanui – New Zealand’s reputation sunk with her
Before I start on an examination of the HMNZS Manawanui fiasco – because that is what it is, a fiasco…