Adapting To Climate Change.
IT IS ONLY SLOWLY DAWNING on climate change activists that the fight against global warming is lost. Locally, Cyclone Gabrielle…
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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Ending the war in Ukraine
One year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is on the warpath urging world…
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The Gabrielle flood and Grant Robertson’s budget, and all the future floods
Grant Robertson may be revising his budget because of this one flood; but he can’t lose sight of the wider…
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The fox trot to 3 waters is misdirection
Chris Trotters article, ‘The Privatisation two-step: Is three waters a masterpiece of mis-direction?’ had me in complete agreement over concern…
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How much longer can New Zealand afford to carry the rich?
The Salvation Army released its State of the Nation 2023 report – Nga Rourou Whakaiti this week. It’s a depressing…
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The Privatisation Two-Step: Is Three Waters A Masterpiece Of Misdirection?
IF CABINET FAILS to scrap Three Waters and start again, New Zealand may very quickly come to resemble Bolivia. Not…
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MUST READ: West Papuan cat-and-mouse over NZ pilot taken captive by ‘freedom’ rebels
Papuan independence rebels are playing a desperate game of cat and mouse with Indonesian authorities over their hostage taking last week with a New Zealand pilot caught in the middle.
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GST is just a political tax. Scrap it.
The foundation for moving to GST was the neo-liberal economic fantasy; supply side economics. Free the entrepreneurs, the suppliers of…
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The Voice of Resistance
The mainstream news media concept of a ‘cycle of violence’ in Palestine and Israel falsely equates Israel’s brutal and overwhelming…
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Computer-based learning in classrooms: an educational disaster compounded by Covid
Computer-based learning in classrooms has been a major focus of educational policy in recent years with the assumption that access…