Let them eat cake
The worrying disconnect between the top echelon of the well -remunerated, and beneficiaries was nicely illustrated by two articles in…
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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Taxing wealth is an essential part of the only road forward in the crises we face
The hurricanes and floods have exposed a deep series of crisis in New Zealand society including a decades long: degrading…
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Marijuana Media on 95bfm: New poll overwhelmingly backs cannabis legalisation
Kia ora! A nationwide poll overwhelmingly backs legalisation, poo-sniffing scientists reveal the nation’s drug capitals (except weed), police confirm they…
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Checking The Left: The Dreadful Logic Of Fascism.
THERE IS A DREADFUL LOGIC to the growth of fascism. To begin with, it seldom emerges in circumstances of left-wing…
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War with China – The Price of Australia’s Prosperity, and our demise
By arming itself with nuclear powered submarines, along with all the other paraphernalia of war, Australia is not so much…
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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…
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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…