Where does National really want to take retirement income policy?
National’s retirement income policy ambitions are becoming clearer. In the early 1990s, as part of Ruth Richardson’s clever plan, the…
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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Winston’s policy uncertainty principle and Wellington’s grab into the regions
Winston is pacing up and down waiting for the text. Glancing incessantly, obsessively at his mobile. Then a ping. Jon:…
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BEN MORGAN: A week of confused diplomacy, but is peace any closer?
A week is a long time in war, and last week the situation in Ukraine developed unexpectedly, after the leak…
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More of Erica’s Magic Tricks
Recently Erica Stanford, as part of her preparation for her post politics career as a magician, produced another set of…
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Whoever thought fixing education would be so easy?
Recent developments in education have given me a really good idea how the government can cut millions off its educational…
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Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update: Competition continues in the South China Sea
Operational tempo remains high in the South China Sea. In mid-October, the Philippines Coast Guard published photographs of Chinese Coast…
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Te Pati Maori & the anatomy of Mathematics
Te Pati Maori’s internecine calamity unfolds in streams of comments in Facebook pages and online messages that is a spectrum…
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The Dictator of Education Makes her Move
Erica Stanford, the Dictator of Education, has been steadily making moves to centralise power, and the details of this were…
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BEN MORGAN: Strategically Russia is stagnant, while Ukraine evolves and Pokrovsk holds on
Strategically, several Ukrainian campaigns are culminating and cracks are starting to show in the Kremlin. Militarily Ukraine’s air campaign is…
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I told you Seymour was playing us for fools
Some weeks back I wrote an article called, Is David Seymour Ignorant or Deliberately Misleading? where I concluded by writing…
