GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Aotearoa: let’s decolonize our rip, shit and bust capitalism
The 2-hundred-year ‘weather event’ of Cyclone Gabrielle was a momentary deluge compared with NZs 200 years of colonisation. Let’s get…
New Zealand Politics
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TWITTER WATCH: Green on Green friendly fire expose rifts
Russel Norman’s scathing criticism of James Shaw simply grows by the week now. As James throws a temper tantrum in…
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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…
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It’s time the rich of NZ paid a wealth tax to rebuild and adapt from climate change
The extraordinary rebuilding and adaptation costs NZ has to undertake must not be borne by the poor, it must be…
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Smug Hermit Kingdom – why degrowth sponge cities that have resilience and sustainability are our Isolationist hyper-regional climate warming future
For a very long time, climate change has been some theoretical future threat. The scientists have screamed at us. The…
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MEDIAWATCH: Weep with sadness – my imaginary TVNZ/RNZ public broadcasting programming line up
As NZ struggles to communicate during a natural emergency (because of our reliance on a cheap internet network rather than…
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Cyclone Gabrielle has exposed enormous structural frailties and inequalities while highlighting Kiwi’s stoicism and community kindness
We still don’t know how much damage Cyclone Gabrielle has caused us. The unprecedented scale of the disaster has impacted…
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Political Roundup: 16 February 2023
Items of interest and importance today CYCLONE GABRIELLE, CLIMATE CHANGE Duncan Greive (Spinoff): How three torrential weeks will impact a…
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James Shaw’s crocodile climate change tears – are the Greens in trouble politically?
James Shaw is sad sad and he’s getting mad mad… New Zealand minister decries climate crisis ‘lost decades’ in wake…
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Māori Party’s extraordinary Tamaki Makaurau candidate – should Peeni Henare be concerned?
The Māori Party have managed to gain Takutai Moana Kemp as their candidate for Tāmaki Makaurau… Hailing from the iwi…