MUST READ: Child poverty in NZ – what is the truth here?
The Government’s media response to the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) Child Poverty Report 2022 proudly claims “Child poverty declines…
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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Dead local bodies
Labour/Greens have largely been punished in the local body elections, except in Wellington! There appears to be three primary…
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Understanding Colonisation
SO, HOW DOES IT WORK? At every level, on every subject, the same explanation is offered for Māori disadvantage –…
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Pressure Towards The Mean: Do We Really Want To Abolish Streaming?
ABOLISH STREAMING, that is the demand of the Post-Primary Teachers Association (PPTA). They are not alone in their determination to…
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Anti-Liberation Theology
A GOOD TELEVISION SERIES can alter the way people view the world. Fifty years from now, people will still be…
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The rise of the left alternative in Latin America
Over much of the globe the left alternative that advances a socialist programme to confront the capitalist crisis facing humanity…
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Reality Bites
KELVIN DAVIS believes that Karen Chhour is looking at the world through a “vanilla lens”. Racially-charged sentiments of this sort…
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They Call It “Democracy” – But They’re Lying.
ON THE EVIDENCE to date, the turnout for this year’s local government elections will plumb new depths. Some will blame…
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US Federal Reserve Chair declares war on working people
At a press conference September 21 the chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said that that the “economic…
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But don’t take my word for it
From the war in Angola a report, including photographs, was published around the world that a number of Cuban soldiers,…