Gerry Brownlee meets the butcher of Qana – National Party hugs war criminals
If Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee felt nauseous when he shook hands last week with renowned war criminal and Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon he didn’t show 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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London’s Green mayoral candidate was under Police surveillance
Labour’s Sadiq Khan won the London mayoralty despite anti-Muslim slanders from his main opponent, Zac Goldsmith.
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The Courage to Care – Amnesty International
When I asked NM* if I could interview her for a blog on World Press Freedom day, she looked up at me from the magazine she was proofing with almost vacant eyes.
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West Papua: The crackdown aftermath – finding a dignified solution
From the voices we do not hear in the New Zealand media about West Papua. Hundreds of peaceful Papuan protesters were arrested and detained this week. Visit Asia Pacific Report for comprehensive reports and read West Papuan Reverend Benny Giay’s measured analysis in this guest blog.
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Four Limericks For A Friday Afternoon
1. A secretive lawyer named Whitney Looked after the interests of John Key. Till the sloppiest lob Nearly cost him…
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The Pieces Align: #BlackGreen2017 And The Green Party’s New Chief Of Staff
The significance of Morris-Travers appointment to the Greens’ Chief of Staff role, then, lies in the fact that she might well find herself one of those crucial inter-party linkages for the setting up of a prospective post-election governing arrangement in late 2017.
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Dodgy tax havens and even dodgier Peter Dunne’s memory
Against a swirling back-drop of revelations surrounding the Panama Papers, Mossack Fonseca, John Key’s lawyer, Ken Whitney, then-Revenue Minister Todd McLay, the IRD dumping a review into foreign trusts, and New Zealand’s reputation for offering secret trusts as part of the tax-haven industry, TVNZ’s Greg Boyd interviewed former Revenue Minister, Peter Dunne for Q+A on 2 May;
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The People’s Wrath: Iraqi Protesters Demonstrate A New Way Of Petitioning Parliament
ON SATURDAY, 30 April 2016, thousands of supporters of the Iraqi religious leader, Moqtadr al-Sadr, stormed Baghdad’s “Green Zone” and forced their way into the Iraqi Parliament.
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Housing dividing generations
Home ownership is an issue that divides our country and our generations. There are hundreds of thousands of these young New Zealanders locked out of home ownership and they have a name, Generation Rent.
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2016 – Ongoing jobless tally
So by the numbers, for this year;