GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Funding general practice in New Zealand
Universal public healthcare in New Zealand was enabled by new ground-breaking social security legislation in 1938 under the first Labour…
New Zealand Politics
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The Choice: Giving Up, Or Keeping Hope Alive? The neoliberal spin at The Spinoff
DECIDING whether Bernard Hickey or Megan Woods deserves a big fat raspberry is the task I’ve set myself. To understand…
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Look, I appreciate all white people are racist, all men are evil and anyone in support of free speech is a Nazi – but the planet is melting
Look, I appreciate all white people are racist, all men are evil and anyone in support of free speech is…
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Today’s benefit rise will take child poverty from 18.4% to 17%
If only we could put in as much effort lifting children out of poverty as we do on middle class tax breaks for electric cars, a billion dollar bike lane and hate speech legislation.
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We’re Too Scared To Stop Them.
LIZ GORDON deserves our thanks. Not only for her most recent posting on the shocking findings of the Christchurch Girls…
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How Hate Speech becomes Jacinda’s Anti-smacking curse & why Verity might be wrong
I think one of the darker cultural values that we have as a people is negative egalitarianism, the ‘so you think you are smarter than me’ mentality that is deeply rooted in our collective psyche.
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SIS using CCTV isn’t a shock – what the Police are planning should
A Police State starts with the promise of security.
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Waatea News Column: The good intentions of the Sexual Violence Bill will see more Maori men guilty of rape
The desire to see justice for victims of sexual assault has eclipsed the need for a fair justice system.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dr Liz Gordon – Sexual harassment: silence and power
For the past couple of months I have been researching and reporting on claims of sexual harassment by students at Christchurch Girls’ High School. In an anonymous and confidential survey, they were asked about their experiences of sexual harassment.
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Of Commoners And Kings: Steve Bannon’s New Traditionalism
CONSERVATIVE POLITICS in New Zealand is running out of puff.