Not a bad result for opponents of the colonial flag
For opponents of our present colonial flag it wasn’t a bad result. We were always unlikely to win, but support for a new flag has substantially increased.
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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For it is truly people – Amnesty International
Today, on the first anniversary of the armed conflict, we must remember this for Yemen. We must remember that these people, of a poetic Arab tongue, and a sun tanned brown skin are exactly that: people, caught in a mostly forgotten, horrific war. They are what truly matters.
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Sanders’ train still picking up speed
The Bernie for President train is still picking up speed. People are still flocking to his rallies: 10,000 in San Diego on Tuesday. His vote is growing despite pundits saying he has no chance.
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Europe’s Bad Refugee Deal
On 7 March 2016 the EU-Turkey summit lead to a deal being agreed on the “refugee crisis” now confronting Europe. The deal is a terrible one, undermines protection, and completely ignores the human reality of those forcibly displaced by conflict and persecution.
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Wealth, inheritance and inter-generational conflict
The ‘one percenters’ must be enjoying the spectacle of young adults fighting baby boomers for the privileges of a diminishing middle class lifestyle. Unfortunately, the inter-generational conflict frame pervades many conventional analyses of social inequality.
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Coming soon: A terror alert near you!
It could safely be argued that stories of “jihai brides” would scare the bejeezus out of the public, in the process softening opinion to welcome extending the powers of the SIS and GCSB. If so, this would be a cynical ploy by National and our spy agencies to manipulate public opinion to accept the unpalatable; a massive increase in state surveillance and mass-gathering of data on all NZers.
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Yes, He Can: Why so many Americans are voting for Donald Trump?
WHAT LEADS THE MAN who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 to come out for Donald Trump in 2016?
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Nuclear disarmament and climate action speech to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference of Youth MPs in Lusaka, Zambia, March 2016.
Not profiting from pollution is one part of the solution, another is ending the more than $600 billion annual fossil fuel subsidies, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Shortlisted state house buyers dominated by profit
New Zealand needs more state housing, not less. We are in the middle of a housing crisis for low and middle income New Zealanders and only the government has the resources and the capacity to provide the large number of quality, affordable housing so desperately needed.
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MUST READ: Cowboy economy shows limits to exploitative growth
The Chair of Air New Zealand’s Sustainability Panel, British environmentalist Sir Jonathon Porritt, spoke to a group of decision makers in Nelson recently and warned about the unsustainable disjuncture between New Zealand’s branding and its reality