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Govt public media reform performance makes AB’s look good
The government’s reform of public broadcasting has made Ian Foster’s quest for rugby’s World Cup look like a cinch.
The way the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill is drafted, suggests worse calamities than the All Blacks loom for the public broadcasting sector, according to leading media critics. -
Poverty is a political choice, why are Labour choosing it?
Labour announced earlier in the year that it would give a $350 cash transfer to all New Zealanders earning less than $70,000.
Except beneficiaries.
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James Shaw and the Green Party co-leadership
The tension in the Green Party is between pragmatism and the need for urgent system change.
For the public, there’s no need to panic. Dissent is valuable and healthy in politics. It sits alongside trusting that the Greens know how to manage their internal processes even if the public at large doesn’t understand them well.
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Rage and the Woke
The past couple of years has seen a significant increase in far right activity and rapidly increasing racism.
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Gang Control Policy Is Back Big Time
We are about to have a proper gang control policy contest. It’s about time.
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He Waka Eke Noa?
The He Waka Eke Noa report recommends the introduction of farm-level split-gas levy on agricultural emissions. The anticipated savings are very small and reliant on Government proposals for the sector to reaching the Government target of 10% methane reduction. Are we really all in this together?
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Climate politics
Quick quiz on which New Zealand politicians led well on climate action in the past 15 years. Which New Zealand town is in a climate emergency today? And how our focus and voting matters if we want to avert climate disaster.
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Jacinda Ardern’s Harvard University Commencement speech
Video and transcript of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s speech at Harvard.
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Why Is New Zealand So Strong?
As New Zealand signs up to another alliance to shore up our economic security in the face of fast retreats in economic globalisation, it’s worth taking stock of why New Zealand’s economy is so strong.
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How to get the progressive government we want
What if instead of waiting for a new left wing party to arise, the left worked with the three progressive parties we already have in parliament?
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The Goldilocks budget
How was the 2022 budget? Was it the worst since Ruth Richardson’s mother of all budgets or the best since the first Labour Government gave everyone a Christmas bonus in 1935?
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Budget Day: there are real alternatives
Budget Day, where our centre left neoliberal government straddles the line between compassion and BAU. Given the pressures of climate, the pandemic and global instability, what are the real alternatives?
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The Emissions Reduction Plan we voted for
what kind of climate action do we want?
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Announcing New Zealand’s low carbon future
The climate crisis is no longer something that’s happening to someone else, somewhere else, at some point in the future. It’s happening to us. It’s happening here. It’s happening now. – James Shaw
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National’s diversity problem
National’s short list of candidates for the Tauranga seat has been released. And it is clear that its gender and ethnic representation problems will be made worse after the selection process is completed.
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Who Will Protect Us From Media Power Now?
With RNZ and TVNZ now in full merger mode, we have yet another untested state megalith upon us. But where is the power that will hold it to account?
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Why trust in the media is declining
A recent study into New Zealand’s media suggests that trust in what the media says is declining and that views of what is good and bad media is more and more dependent on the participant’s world view.
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Greens call for rent freeze
The Green Party has published a reasonable plan to make renting more affordable for low income New Zealanders. There’s nothing extreme-communist-scary here, it’s well within the values of the NZ electorate.
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Water and Money
If the 3 Waters reforms can survive its attacks and be implemented, a consequence will be that we are going to have a most enormous nationwide economic argument about the price of water and who pays for it all.
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3 Waters Reform Must Happen
If you’re out there in ZB land and believe that water management should be democratically elected, you won’t find respite here. Local Government has done a terrible job dealing with water and change is urgently needed.
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Can This Government Be Saved?
act, covid-19, economy, elections, grant robertson, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, maori party, nationalCan Labour win a third term? Here are some pathways up, and some pathways down.
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“Labour… stop playing by this tired, neoliberal playbook”
Chloe Swarbrick, the cost of living crisis, and what the economy is for.
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Why the Wellington protestors are wrong
The Wellington protest has exceeded any moral mandate to protest.
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Convoy protest 20/2/22
A general discussion post.
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Convoy protest 19/2/22
A general discussion post.
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Convoy protest 17/2/22
A general discussion post.
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Convoy protest 16/2/22
A general discussion post.
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The right to protest
Complaints that the police are unnecessarily interfering with the Wellington Convoy’s right to protest appear to be vastly overstated.
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And what have they done anyway?
climate change, covid-19, education, Environment, health, housing, jacinda ardern, labour, law and "order", poverty, uncategorized, UnionsWith Ardern getting a good-old media beat-down, remember here’s how to change a country for good like no one else but Labour can.
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Is it time for the Greens to go their own way?
Climate, ecology, welfare, housing – we are now at the point for the Greens to go ‘fuck it, time to go back to our radical roots’.
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Long covid, omicron and the precautionary principle
There are still so many things we don’t know about long covid and omicron presents a whole new set of challenges.
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No One Cares
I had reason to visit Waitara in Taranaki recently, and I don’t want to sound like there’s a different world still operating … […]
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V Day!
Yesterday was Aotearoa’s V day, the day that we reached the goal of having 90% of the target population vaccinated against Covid.
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Is National’s Luxon among the quick or the dead?
Simon Louisson has been observing Chris Luxon with a journalists eye over the last week, especially with regard to the Jack Tame interview. A bit of a mixed bag. Fast thinking but with baggage. It will be interesting to see whether the electorate will again suppress its egalitarian instincts and vote for a smooth-talking rich man.
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National’s factional problem
chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, farming, liberalism, national, religion, same old national, Simon BridgesNational’s basic problem is that it has three discrete factions, christian conservatives, urban liberals and the country grouping. And no coherent vision to reconcile these totally disparate groupings.
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Class oppression and discrimination
A brief analysis of power.
