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…
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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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…
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Superfund investments in Palestinian oppression soar – PSNA demands government action
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has written to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta demanding the government direct the New…
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Marijuana Media: Big busts reveal prohibition’s folly
Kia ora! New Zealand’s biggest ever weed bust, our biggest ever drug haul, and “Well done” Zac Guildford – all…
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What comes next Labour? Time for transformational change- PLEASE Lets just do it this time.
The major announcements from Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ big policy refocus were to clear away the election losers and signal…
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A Modest Exercise in Arithmetic.
THE DAILY BLOG’S EDITOR, appears convinced that there exists in New Zealand a great silent majority of Treaty revisionists. He…
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Greens inconsistency on housing shows their lack of strategic thinking
It was great to see the Greens with other groups calling for a rent freeze in Auckland. Landlords signalling big…