Commentary examining neoliberalism, economic inequality, and the political forces shaping modern New Zealand society.
We find it hard to accept that the knowledge we take for granted – like the shape of the world’s continents – can be changed. That the familiar transition of the seasons can be broken. That the planet our ancestors called “Mother Earth” is about to shuck off our species like a skin she has outgrown.
Add your presence and make a difference at the only regular public expression of support for Palestine in Auckland!
Associate Professor Gus Van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School
Thursday 12 May 2016
6.15 – 7.30 pm
Clock Tower Lecture Theatre 039
With Dom back in the city and Dan’s Uber career in the toilet, the team decided to get things rolling again.
Comrades, to celebrate May Day on Sunday, The Daily Blog is hosting drinks and nibbles at Ika at 6pm. All our bloggers, political whanau and you our dear readers are invited along to mix, mingle and plot political coups.
The 5 Star Comedy Preview + Comedy Gala are the perfect shows to watch so that you get a feel for a comedian. If you can’t stand 5 minutes of them, then locked in for a 1 hour show will be a death wish. It’s not that any of the comedians these days are god awful, it’s just that there is so much very brilliant work out there that you don’t want to waste time on a show where you get 5 belly laughs when others are offering 50.
Associate Professor Nick Dyer-Witheford is giving a public talk titled “Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex”.
We are witness to scholarly disciplines in a sophisticated and generous performance in Fabricate, by Caitlin Davey, Cushla Roughan, Lydia Connolly-Hiatt, Rodney Tyrelland and Reece Adams. Using innovation to plug gaps in the budget and delving into a collective visual history, it soothes, and it transfers, in its dealings with surfaces.
Helen’s colonial mentality of a straight-forward and uncontested notion of European supremacy is a typically white New Zealand combination of studied ignorance and hypocrisy. The plucky little nation, the Pacific nation.