Polycrisis, Polls and the Election Cycle
Everything seems to be going wrong, everywhere all at once—COVID-19, Ukraine, bank failures, inflation, extreme weather events. Crisis afflicts 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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Yes, there is a big double-banger policy which would attack climate change and the cost-of-living crisis simultaneously
The Greens are rightly annoyed at the Labour Party holding a bonfire of climate change policies developed as part of…
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20 years after the invasion of Iraq – the biggest war criminals of this century are still free
“George Bush – TERRORIST, Tony Blair – TERRORIST, John Howard – TERRORIST” has been among the chants that have resonated…
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Nobody To Shoot
THERE’S A SCENE in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” where an embattled dust-bowl sharecropper struggles to defend his land….
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A focus on the cost of living (Inflation)
Labour is doing a lot to focus on ‘ it’s the economy stupid’ and the main way they are signalling…
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Marijuana Media: Praised delay to driver drug testing, Referendum would pass if held now, and Efeso ‘Nope’ Collins to run for The Greens
Kia ora! Driver drug testing delay praised by experts, One News listens to the show, reforms in the USA, Noper…
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Aotearoa New Zealand should follow South Africa’s example and end diplomatic relations with the apartheid state of Israel
“New Zealand should follow South Africa’s lead and end diplomatic relations with Israel” says John Minto, National Chair of the…
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The Revolution Has Begun
IF NEW ZEALAND’S educational curriculum was dedicated to condemning capitalism and uplifting the working class, would that signal a revolution?…
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Outlaw Zionism and respect human rights
A call to outlaw Zionism does not mean the denial of free speech to its supporters and believers. On the…
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Marijuana Media on 95bfm: Roadside drug testing could begin next week – but won’t
Kia ora! Driver drug testing won’t begin next week, Dunedin hosts a pot-a-loo party, native psychedelics – all this and…