Sorry, it was a busy day
Race is never a focal issue for white, middle class and privileged groups because society is built on their accepted norms and traditions
politics
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When people get more upset about Greenpeace activists scaling parliament than the millions of people who will be killed in climate-related disasters, we have a problem
There has been a lot of condemnation and ‘tut, tut, tutting’ and finger-wagging directed at the allegedly illegal actions of these Greenpeace activists.
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The rising costs of low-waged work
Our government are punishing people who fail to secure jobs that simply aren’t there. Overwhelmingly, the jobs that are available in this country are demeaning, poorly-paid and offer almost no security.
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Work like a maniac, deprive yourself of sleep, and you might be able to buy a shitty house in Hamilton
Please stop painting upper-class white men who managed to step-up on the property ladder through ‘sacrifice’, ‘hard-work’ and good old fashioned ‘elbow grease’ as some kind of ‘underdog’ story. They aren’t.
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Andrew Little: Zero Hour Slayer?
It took Andrew Little such a short space of time to win this victory against Zero Hour contracts because of the hundreds of hours that activists and union delegates had already put in to ending these contracts
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Labour: towards an MMP strategy
For me though, the best result for the Left was seeing the Labour Party accept and embrace that we needed to vote strategically.
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Nurturing future, civic leadership
Just prior to going on holiday last year I was fascinated by the Heralds weak attempt to try and set the civic Auckland agenda with a silly poll on possible contenders for the Auckland mayoralty.
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On Eleanor Catton, the cost of speaking out and why her words have the right running scared
I hate to break it to so many of our right-wing pundits who know so little about so much, but Catton has been pointing out the failings of our current government for a while now.
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“Minority report”: how the Terrorist Law will stifle dissent and could take away your basic human rights
The purpose of the state and establishment has never really been to keep us safe from terrorism. The purpose is to keep us, their citizenry complaint and quiet – and fearful.
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Stop telling young people to vote. Tell them to start the riot.
This year was the first time I ever voted and in all honestly I feel a bit ripped off. I knew the left would lose badly to the right, so it was not this which left me feeling short changed. It was the left’s behaviour after the fact.