Settlers set fire to family home
Illegal Occupation settlers set a Palestinian house on fire early Sunday in the town of Sinjil, near Ramallah in 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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The death of New Zealand’s World Class Primary School Education
National’s shallow and extremely visionless education policy refers to developing a world class education system. What a farcical comment that…
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Marijuana Media: Cannabis Party blazes NSW elections
Kia ora! Cannabis Party blazes NSW elections, Thailand’s first Cannabis Cup, and changes to NZ’s medicinal cannabis scheme. This week’s…
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Sitting This One Out: How Angry Abstainers Could Sink Labour and the Greens.
VOTER ABSTENTION should now be Labour’s and the Greens’ biggest fear. That tens-of-thousands of New Zealanders, normally supportive of these…
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Analysing National’s Education Policy
What is it with the National Party and education? Every election cycle they bring out the old ‘3Rs’ (once this…
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Marijuana Media: Cannabis in the Cooks, Booze-funded ‘Pipeline of Hate’, J Day & more
Kia ora! Cannabis in the Cook Islands, Price Harry’s troubles stirred up by beer-funded lobbyists, and J Day is coming…
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All of Us, All of Us.
THE CLAIM that the push for co-governance comes not from “ordinary” but “elite” Māori continues to gain ground. Yet another…
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MUST READ: A Cost To The City – On Mayor Brown’s Most Recent Curious Initiative
It’s a curious thing watching Mayor Brown make efforts at ‘cost-saving’. In the name of this slogantastic endeavour, he’s recently…
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Let them eat cake
The worrying disconnect between the top echelon of the well -remunerated, and beneficiaries was nicely illustrated by two articles in…
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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…