Losing the Working Class
I ALWAYS WONDERED what it would take to detach the New Zealand working class from Labour. Not all of 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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Anti-Palestinian racism still drives western media coverage of Israel’s 75-year war on Gaza
Reporting on the “Middle East conflict” (never reported as it should be as “the Israeli military occupation of Palestine”) has…
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Neo-liberal economic paralysis
I talked in my previous article about National deliberately working to create a low wage economy in New Zealand. A…
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PODCAST: When All the World’s Failings End in Gaza
PODCAST: In this the tenth episode of A View from Afar for 2023 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and journalist/analyst Selwyn Manning will examine the current Israel-Palestine Atrocities.
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Our political leaders have failed us and failed Palestinians
Gaza usually seems far away from New Zealand and well outside our circle of interest. Then every few years it…
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The Prime Minister Winston Peters
With a National/Act government we will all have to swallow a dozen dead rats. We know their tax cuts will…
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What did Labour do wrong?
Winning an election in a recession is very difficult and Labour failed to cope with that context. It was a…
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Chips falling: Election preliminaries, specials, scenarios.
As I began writing this the day after the general election (15/10/2023) it became apparent to the voters that NZ…
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Election 2023 – rejoice that we live in a Democracy my fellow citizens
My dear fellow Kiwis. All the arguments have been made, all the debate had. In NZ on Election Day we…
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On NZ First’s Impending Return To Parliament – Both In The Mirror & Through The Looking-Glass
There’s a quip often (and probably erroneously) attributed to Mark Twain which goes something like “History doesn’t repeat itself –…