Cannabis referendum Bill’s recipe for success
The world-leading full version of the cannabis referendum Bill is a recipe for success that gives voters a stark choice, writes Chris Fowlie.
New Zealand Politics
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Dr Liz Gordon: A peculiarly political pandemic
At the heart of this blog is the triangular relationship between the law, trust in government and human freedom. All three elements are important. The corpus of the law represents the current status of justice in Aotearoa (for good or bad), including challenges, Judge-made law, common law and the intentions of Parliament.
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Horror of our toxic welfare system laid bare to working class white people & why that will hurt Labour
WINZ is a neoliberal weapon used to punish, intimidate and terrify those unfortunate enough to require their assistance. It’s not built to actually help people and now it’s being required to, there is massive bottleneck from the purposely obtuse processing regime.
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How will NZ avoid conflict with China, Jami-Lee Ross’s new Political Party & can we trust Winston? Really?
I want to believe Winston.
I really do.
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Matthew Blomfield – The police want to take every dollar Ron Salter has ever made
A South Auckland businessman is under siege by police who are using laws designed to target gangs and drug dealers to come after his family business, his home, and even his children’s assets. At a time when we’ve handed police extraordinary powers to deal with a health pandemic, Matt Blomfield argues that trust is being betrayed.
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Despicable abuse of Police power while NZ is distracted by pandemic
The thing that always sickens me about expanding Police powers in this country is the disgusting manner in which the Police assure us that whatever grotesque over extension of power they are seeking, they will only ever use it against the worst examples they are holding up for justification.
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How can we prise corporate hands from the throat of our democracy?
Prising corporate hands from the throat of our democracy is more important than ever. The public mood does not favour going back to “business as usual” after the pandemic where we all work hard to increase the wealth of the one percent. But any break from “business as usual” will be extremely difficult because our main political parties are heavily reliant on corporate donations to fund their election campaigns.
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Biden vs MeToo
The mantra of always believing the accuser has turned on the Democrats and bitten Biden.
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GUEST BLOG: Janfrie Wakim – Prioritise people’s needs .. now
The timing of our ANZAC Day commemorations coincided with another annual April event the Global Days of Action on Military Spending.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – May Day 2020 and the fight for a socialist future!
May Day 2020 marks a critical time where humanity has to choose between keeping a dying capitalism on its feet at the expense of nature and humanity, or, rejecting this bleak future by taking over the global economy and running it under workers control.