GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When health bosses operate in an isolated bubble
When delivered by district health boards (2001-22) Aotearoa New Zealand’s universal health system was one of the centralised in developed…
New Zealand Politics
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The Working Group with Duncan Garner, Matthew Tukaki and Stuff Columnist Damien Grant
TEXT: Working to 3598 for all updates Streaming live from the palatial new podcast studios at Mediaworks, we are live…
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Bashing Beneficiaries for being poor is a culture war revenge fantasy, not a practical social policy
The Government is ramping up plans to throw 50 000 beneficiaries (including those with disabilities) onto the scrap heap… Govt…
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Democracy Project freaks out: Unemployment up + MPs wages up vs Grim Public Service Job Cuts + Huge tax breaks of rich landlords = A narrative of discontent that is only starting
NZ First apologist platform, The Democracy Project’s Alt Right Folk singer Chris Trotter sounds frightened that his hard right racist…
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TDB WARNED YOU: Here comes the big data fascism, next stolen generation and social investment privatisation of welfare
TDB warned you, here it comes… Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey sought advice on ‘social impact bonds’ to fund services…
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Bryan Bruce – Democracy For Sale Part 2 – Where did the money go?
Yesterday I listed the donations made to political parties who succeeded in getting candidates elected to parliament in 2023 and…
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The Foreshore and Seabed Confiscation 20 years ago and its redneck echo today
I think it was a Pommie Council Mayor of some banjo twanging whiter than white South Island Orange Free State…
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MEDIAWATCH: Sunday’s demise = cowardice from the Board
TVNZ’s Sunday team bids emotional farewell to viewers as 22-year-old show signs off The presenter of TVNZ current affairs programme…
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By Hiding History Media Fuels Genocide
On April 15th 1956, speaking at the funeral of an Israeli settler killed by Palestinians near Gaza, Moshe Dayan, then…
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Ben Morgan: Ukraine holds on, the situation on land is stabilising
Russia’s Victory Day celebrations on 9 May were punctuated by missile strikes launched from both sides of the border. Russia…