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Labour Day: the working class and civil emergencies

Written By: - Date published: 6:06 am, October 27th, 2025 - 17 comments

On this Labour Day, a massive shout out to all the workers in Southland, Otago and other areas affected by the storms last week. Paid and volunteer, obvious and those in the background doing support for the frontline workers.

Understanding the shooting of Charlie Kirk

Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, September 17th, 2025 - 95 comments

Some of the kids aren’t alright. What if Charlie Kirk’s murder wasn’t from the left or the right, but something else entirely?

Metiria Turei was right but did we learn the lesson?

Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, September 1st, 2025 - 44 comments

In 2017 the Greens shifted the Overton Window on a compassionate response to poverty, but where are we now?

Because it makes so much more sense to destroy communities and fund hospitals instead

Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, August 4th, 2025 - 17 comments

Another day, another stupid consequence of NACTFirst’s mongrel government policies. North Shore hospital has dedicated a ward for patients who would normally be discharged but have nowhere to go. RNZ, North Shore Hospital has an entire ward of people stuck in hospital with no medical reason to be there. The 20-bed ward was created in […]

Old fast track, new fast track

Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, August 2nd, 2025 - 49 comments

What are Labour’s intentions towards protecting communities and the environment?

Queenstown as an exemplar of the limits to growth

Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, July 30th, 2025 - 19 comments

We are Queenstown.

What is the point of taxation?

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 21st, 2025 - 43 comments

Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.

Do humans have to respect the limits to growth?

Written By: - Date published: 1:23 pm, July 19th, 2025 - 11 comments

we don’t have to, but we probably should.

New Zealand starting to feel the pointy end of the climate crisis

Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, July 14th, 2025 - 57 comments

Nelson Tasman region is still in a civil emergency and our climate denying Prime Minister is signalling an end to future flood bail outs.

The Thunberg dilemma

Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2025 - 49 comments

If the Madleen activism was largely symbolic, did it work?

Trump vs Musk

Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 16 comments

Two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, or a man using his power to speak edifying and crystal clear truth.

Meta Ardern

Written By: - Date published: 9:26 am, June 6th, 2025 - 54 comments

This is about what’s good and what works and why.

The existential moment we are in

Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, June 2nd, 2025 - 26 comments

As the world re-entangles and pushes our interdependence to the foreground, we need a new thesis on freedom.

What would the Greens’ inheritance/gift tax mean for farming?

Written By: - Date published: 8:07 am, May 20th, 2025 - 48 comments

In a climate crisis world we should be treating farming as a national strategic asset.How would a wealth transfer tax affect that?

Jacinda Ardern’s speech to Yale graduates: leading with empathy is a strength

Written By: - Date published: 2:43 pm, May 19th, 2025 - 3 comments

Ardern at her finest.

The Green Budget

Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, May 15th, 2025 - 49 comments

An economy for the people, by the people.

Rock and a hard place: the under 16 social media ban

Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, May 10th, 2025 - 50 comments

Given the complexities and conflict over privacy, can MPs be trusted to design a good law?

Tory Whanau leaves Wellington mayoral race for Māori ward

Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, April 29th, 2025 - 59 comments

Smart move by Whanau and great for the green and the left.

50501

Written By: - Date published: 6:04 am, April 20th, 2025 - 47 comments

The US people take to the streets again.

Go Phil!

Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 4th, 2025 - 14 comments

Phil Goff doubles down on criticism of Trump’s lies.

Which American said this about Trump in 2016?

Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, March 11th, 2025 - 29 comments

“well, I don’t know about a dictator, I said a third world strong man. He’s running for President, so no matter what he won’t be a dictator unless our republic completely crumbles, which I don’t anticipate it will.”

The Greens plan for a Green Budget

Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, February 27th, 2025 - 2 comments

The Green Party co-leaders gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday.

Moving beyond wtaf?

Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, February 5th, 2025 - 49 comments

The Musk takeover

The Australian under 16 social media ban

Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, November 29th, 2024 - 23 comments

what did the Australians just do?

It’s almost like we shouldn’t leave the climate crisis to the market

Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, November 28th, 2024 - 60 comments

The collapse of SolarZero is a massive red flag.

Hurricane Milton: watching the climate train wreck in slow motion

Written By: - Date published: 1:12 pm, October 10th, 2024 - 59 comments

Catastrophe and meaningful response.

English rising anti-fascism

Written By: - Date published: 10:55 am, August 8th, 2024 - 68 comments

This is more hope than I have felt about humans in a long time

Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Chris

Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, August 7th, 2024 - 18 comments

“Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Rob. I can buzz around like a Beehive boy, but I’d like to see you do my job”

Remember that time we had a global pandemic?

Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, July 16th, 2024 - 5 comments

how’s it going five years on?

The Budget Day Protests

Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, May 30th, 2024 - 18 comments

Protests by Māori and Tangata Tiriti against government policy are underway on the day of the National government’s first budget. Carkoi and Hikoi are taking place in many locations across the country.

The Luxon Government’s War on Nature

Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, May 25th, 2024 - 10 comments

“But the truth is that real gains only ever come out of a mobilised civil society and achieving a mobilised civil society is exactly what we have to do.”

– Russel Norman