On chopping down NZ statues
I for one don’t believe they should be removed at all.
New Zealand Politics
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MEDIA WATCH: Why on earth is Nanaia Mahuta setting fire to the Labour Party?
Māori development minister Nanaia Mahuta released an insane proposal on Māori media last week, set a ridiculously tiny window for consultation on that insane proposal and seems to have utterly ignored anyone else’s view who might have helped avoid such a ridiculous blunder being introduced in the first place.
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MEDIA WATCH: Ummm, I don’t know if School threatening to call Police for Black Lives Matter protests is the smartest branding exercise
What on earth is this Principal of Marist saying?
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Why defunding the Police makes sense
Finally arguments about naked police brutality are being openly debated.
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Absent Friends – Labour knows what needs to be done to win, but not how to make it happen
Never was the old saying more true: “Now is the time for every good person to come to the aid of the party.” Especially those with democratic socialist ideas!
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So what happens if Labour win a majority and still don’t become transformative?
There are two reasons this Labour Government have not been transformative in the way the progressive left demands and Jacinda promises.
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Contracting out Foreign Affairs to New Zealand First is an embarrassing copout
While the world is speaking out in condemnation of Israeli plans to annex vast swathes of Palestinian land in the Occupied Palestinian Territories the New Zealand government’s silence is deafening.
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Waatea News Column: The horror of Oranga Tamariki laid bare – again
The latest Oranga Tamariki report by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner came out this week and it is again grim reading for anyone who has been following this neoliberal experiment in social policy.
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On The Seattle Commune
So for the past day or so, I’ve been watching developments in the Seattle “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”. It’s kinda amazing.
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Dear NZ Peace Activists, I don’t wish to be mean, b-u-t…
Look, I appreciate everyone is busy burning down 5G cell towers, but the latest complaints by a NZ Peace group against the purchase of 5 new Super Hercules is, and how do I say this politely, missing the fucking point…