Is it wrong to feel Schadenfreude over the prison riot?
New Zealanders only give two fucks when they are humiliated into changing by global news attention.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – MANIFESTO OF THE WAIKERIA UPRISING
People Against Prisons Aotearoa has been provided with this, a manifesto stating the grievances and political purpose of the #WaikeriaUprising:
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – My best to you all for 2021
When I was a small boy I remember my family would sometimes get on the bus and visit my Aunty Jean.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – For a Revolutionary Labour Party
The re-election of Labour in October as a majority government seals its fate as an open bourgeois party. In 2017…
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – AOTEAROA: LAND OF THE WRONG WHITE RENT SEEKERS
Bernard Hickey in Who is to Blame for the Housing Crisis puts the options open to a capitalist government in…
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2021 Will Be About Brown Poverty And White Guilt.
IN THE COMING YEAR New Zealand politics will be driven by two inter-related forces: brown poverty and white guilt. Jacinda…
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We are a little people
Most commentators are talking about 2020 as the year we are glad to put behind us. They say it has been a tough year for business with uncertainty about the economy alongside lockdowns, quarantine isolation and no overseas travel.
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Waatea News Column: Change of Police chase policy long overdue
New Police Minister Poto Williams is doing exactly what I predicted her appointment would do, focus less on the get…
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Dr Liz Gordon: How I won the election (in the voice of Donald Trump)
The following is an absolutely truthful account of the systems Trump has used (and will use) to try and secure…
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On Damien Grant On Damien Grant On Covid-19, Hindsight, And Playing Russian Roulette With A Semi-Automatic Aimed At One’s Own Foot
Like a diminishing quotient of New Zealanders, I have the occasional expectation of finding something enthusing and enlightening in my Sunday newspaper. I also expect there is Damien Grant.