RCEP – A Wake Up Call To Rethink The Failed Hyperglobalisation Model
Professor Kelsey notes that the usually ebullient Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) is even downplaying the deal, admitting that it failed to achieve its objectives.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – RCEP and its fallout
For those who think it is useless to protest, that the people’s voice doesn’t matter anymore and big business can…
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – A Brave Woman Parliamentarian
Betty McCollum, US Congresswoman, Representative from St Paul , Minnesota, is a very brave woman.
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Bernard Hickey says it all…
Bernard Hickey’s view, worth highlighting this quote…
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MEDIA WATCH: Everything awful about neoliberal NZ in 3 TV adverts
In every way, every day, the neoliberal State is putting the obligations of their lack of regulation on you and selling that ‘choice’ as empowerment.
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If Only We Had a Minister of Broadcasting Worthy Of The Title.
Given the Minister’s evident uninterest in the classic Reithian principles of public broadcasting – i.e. to educate, elevate and entertain the people – any review of Faafoi’s motivations for rolling-up TVNZ and RNZ into a single, state-owned broadcasting entity, leaves one fearing the worst.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Make Contact Tracer Compulsory
I would make using the MOH Contact tracer app and/or signing in compulsory.
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Waatea News Column: Danger of Labour & Greens robbing Maori by changing MMP rules
There are real political dangers in the drive-by Labour and the Greens to remove the tail coating rule within MMP.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Options for Christmas and beyond
We all know, and have known for years, that the ‘Ruthanasia’ slashing of benefits by one-third in the 1991 budget was the most pernicious and harmful policy of the whole generation of neo-liberal policies.
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We need to face facts – Jacinda is our Obama. Welcome to NeoKindness
If we evaluate the first month of Jacinda’s second term it is glaringly apparent that while she is personally kind, she sits on a throne built by the neoliberal State, and as such they rule her, she doesn’t rule them.