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…
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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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…
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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…