Success for National Govt – new bank opens!
Nothing quite spells “success” like a new Food Bank opening in a community near you.
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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EXCLUSIVE: A View To A Kill – Police spin shooting murder
The media are why cops can get away with murder, the politicians are why, the rednecks are why, the disinterested complacent lefties are why, the flakey airheads who like cats more than people are why, the booffhead rugby troglodytes focused on All Black groin strains are why. The NZ Police are getting away with murder right before our eyes. What can we do about it?
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The Ideal And The Real: The BDS Movement and Palestine’s Future
Peace in Northern Ireland was not negotiated by idealists, but by realists. Peace in Palestine will, likewise, be the achievement of those who begin with the situation as it is, not as it should be, or, as it was.
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Liars, thieves and cheats
It has been revealed that the government agency responsible for enforcing employment rights tried to cover up the widespread abuse of the Holiday Act by employers in this country.
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Political Marriage? Green, Red, Brown, Black and Blue
Last week’s memorandum of understanding between the Labour and Green Parties will prove to be a wise move if it helps the combined Labour-Green vote to reach 48% or more. It seems a hard ask though, even in the event that the economy tanks next year.
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#BlackGreen or Black And Blue – A Response To One News’ Corin Dann’s NZ First Political Prognostications
As we move closer and closer to the climactic events of the 2017 General Election, an ever-increasing (if not outright bewildering) array of political journalists, talkback radio hosts, and errant blubbery bloggers will mysteriously transmogrify themselves into ungainly combinations of soothsayer-entrail-readers spliced with Buzzfeed-grade clickbait provisioners.
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Strange local silence over shocking PNG shooting of peaceful student protesters
The Papua New Guinea police opened fire yesterday on a group of students at the University of Papua New Guinea who were peacefully protesting against the alleged corruption of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. Several eye-witnesses have come forward to say they saw students beaten and shot at, including one case where a student was shot in the head. Why the muted attention from much of our media?
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The Sanders movement does not end here
From day one the Democratic Party establishment has been trying to count Bernie Sanders out of the presidential nomination race, using every trick in the book. The party leaders have been readily assisted in this by a tame mainstream media.
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The Mendacities of Mr English – Fibbing from Finance Minister confirmed
English’s own words reveal that he wilfully misled Lisa Owen on 28 May, on ‘The Nation’. Unfortunately, fact-checking politicians who spin untruths is not easy, and requires quick-thinking and an encyclopedic memory.
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EXCLUSIVE: Workers could be owed billions of dollars
The systematic corporate theft of workers holiday pay which was first publicly identified on The Daily Blog in February this year, could result in up to $2 billion in back pay for hundreds of thousands of workers in New Zealand.