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Comment: The beginning of the end
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 9:08 pm, May 10th, 2025
National is the party of fuckery and enriching the landlord class They do not care about the cost of living or working people, that was all a smokescreenComment: Open mike 23/04/2025
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 12:27 am, April 26th, 2025
The violent ones who have decided that feminists are Nazis https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/22/trans-activists-death-threat-placards-reviewed-by-police/Comment: ANZAC Day.
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 8:37 pm, April 25th, 2025
I enjoyed this post by Bomber. Especially the graphic at the bottom. It highlights the share prices of US weapons manufacturers the day after the October 6 attacks in Israel. https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/04/25/anzac-day-2025-lest-we-remember/ I guess ...Comment: Open mike 25/04/2025
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 8:01 pm, April 25th, 2025
"Neoliberalism is a tool used by capitalism to defeat democracy. The other one is fascism" đ„ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z5yRqv4RzAComment: Open mike 23/04/2025
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 11:11 pm, April 23rd, 2025
I think it's unfortunate that political pressure groups have weaponised this issue. Peters is an opportunist seeking a wedge issue to cudgel the left. It disgusts me that both left wing radicals and the far right have hijacked the debate, and the main ...Comment: Did someone mention “class”?
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 10:57 pm, April 23rd, 2025
100% SPC. That's why little shitstain Seymour crapping on about equal rights is just a massive distraction and attempt to divide NZ by race The root of our social divisions is a massive, yawning socioeconomic divide that enriched a few at the expense of ...Comment: Did someone mention “class”?
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 10:49 pm, April 23rd, 2025
Unlike the crazy American Evangelicals, the Catholic Church still has a relatively strong socialist tradition. Frances was an exemplar of that. Church doctrine might not be explicit about political philosophy but it is outspoken on issues of social ...Comment: 50501
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 8:28 pm, April 20th, 2025
Half of America wants the rule of law and democracy to function. The other half wants to shoot them and chuck them in concentration camps It is not guaranteed which side will win. The same forces are at work here and around the world. And while the USA is ...Comment: Spare a thought for poor Nick Mowbray
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 10:13 pm, April 17th, 2025
Purveyor of cheap plastic shit (opinions) His toys aren't great eitherComment: The Trump Shock: Why the US President Crashed the Global Economy
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 2:44 pm, April 12th, 2025
Karl Marx predicted that capitalism would eat itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1aFnl-x_3M Economics is a significant factor but not the only reason Americans abandoned the neoliberal consensus "TINA" and embraced right wing populism. Historians can ...Comment: Tamatha Paul on BHN
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 5:43 pm, April 8th, 2025
Should be a banger episode with Tamatha and Craig Renney! Joe Trinder was good value last night. BHN is a breath of fresh air.Comment: Misleading Billboards Are a Threat to Electoral Integrity
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 7:20 pm, April 7th, 2025
Saw one in a prominent spot in Wellington today. Will take a photo if I see it again. Big money behind this, a big electronic billboard near Lambton Quay, by the Stuff head office Nasty shit. And crickets when it comes to Tim JagoComment: Trump’s Secret Sauce Hits NZ
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 12:16 am, April 7th, 2025
And here I was thinking that Winston was the most Trump like. But in reality the destructive acts of National are far more effective at throwing Kiwis into poverty, sickness, and misery than anything silly old Winnie has doneComment: Trump Schadenfreude
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 12:10 am, April 7th, 2025
Good observation of the cluster of beliefs, it's a tower of anti-social anti-intellectual bullshit impervious to facts and evidence and utterly careless of the damage it causes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoReVkF-UZ0 "Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German ...Comment: Trump Schadenfreude
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 12:03 am, April 7th, 2025
Epic soundtrack. Disturbed reinvented that song, and made it more powerful than the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4Comment: Trump Schadenfreude
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 11:50 pm, April 6th, 2025
Yeah unfortunately I can list off a dozen people I know who hold terrible views and make insane assertions straight out of the hate factories of social media Those same morons who ruined twitter with their gleeful spiteComment: Trump Schadenfreude
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 3:42 pm, April 6th, 2025
I'm not advocating violence, I'm predicting it. Or at least, a re-run of the revolutionary movements that led FDR to compromise with the New Deal. That is preferable to the fascist poison that is corrupting the US body politic at the moment.Comment: Trump Schadenfreude
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 1:12 pm, April 6th, 2025
I am part of that demographic (dudes over 50) and 100% endorse this post. It shakes your faith in human nature when you see so many blokes who think they are down to earth, sensible, hard working and smarter than you, acting like total fucken arseholes. ...Comment: Aotearoa take a bow
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 11:53 pm, April 5th, 2025
He waka eke noa I get the frustration but solidarity and building bridges is the way forward. Most working kiwis are afraid of your kind of rhetoric because they are (like me) on the bones of their arse and struggling to get by in this shitty system Te ...Comment: Aotearoa take a bow
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 10:58 am, April 5th, 2025
MÄori wellbeing has taken a backwards step under this CoC government, but the massive outcry against Seymour's awful bill shows that Te Tiriti is widely supported, and Mister 8% should crawl back under his rockComment: When Government does not want to listen to the people
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 9:44 pm, April 2nd, 2025
Possibly but Luxon is the only one with a smidgeon of charisma, and rolling him makes the Gov look unstable, and fractures in the coalition more likelyComment: The RNZ-Reid Research poll
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 3:39 pm, April 1st, 2025
Net favourability is infinitely a better measure than preferred prime minister: Hipkins: 12.3% Luxon: -3.9% https://bsky.app/profile/foxylustygrover.bsky.social/post/3llpkmk5lhc2bComment: Vilification of Russia not good for peace in Europe.
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 2:44 pm, April 1st, 2025
This might make sense if you ignore facts and history and Putinâs ongoing warmongering Happy April FoolsComment: Open mike 29/03/2025
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 9:58 pm, March 29th, 2025
The anti DEI bandwagon is a great example of complete lies that the right wing spread against left wing movements. Their audience might not be initially resentful or suspicious but their slanted stories about radical Maaris taking da water, or da Mexicans ...Comment: When Government does not want to listen to the people
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 5:59 pm, March 29th, 2025
Luxon is the TikTok PM DGAF about democracy His fscken hologram pal has caused a constitutional crisis and now he wants to stymie the most massive public outcry in our history Heâs like King Canute, trying to command the tide to retreat Seymourâs piece of ...Comment: Open mike 29/03/2025
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 11:50 am, March 29th, 2025
There's a strong audience for counter intuitive "new" takes on science and culture. People love novelty and the idea that mainstream knowledge is wrong (freakanomics, blink,...) As a massively propagandised culture, Americans intuit that something is wrong ...Comment: Yeah, Nah, National Don’t Deserve A Second Term
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 11:17 am, March 29th, 2025
He's on the same grift as Chris Trotter - opinions for sale, and they shift like the windComment: What Tamatha Paul Really Said
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 9:27 am, March 29th, 2025
Of course, the biggest crooks in New Zealand (a colony founded on theft and murder), are the white collar crims and tax evaders. If they are serious about crime, fund the SFO properly And look to the causes of crime. Hint: neoliberalismComment: What Tamatha Paul Really Said
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 9:14 am, March 29th, 2025
We are https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/556301/beneficiaries-on-money-cards-may-not-be-able-to-pay-rentComment: Yeah, Nah, National Don’t Deserve A Second Term
Written By: roblogic - Date published: 10:54 pm, March 27th, 2025
There are 2 versions of Hooton, the one with a social conscience doesn't come out very often. The Dirty Politics right wing shill is usually in the driver's seat
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- A return to Nature.
Thomas Hobbes wrote his seminal work Leviathan in 1651. In it he describes the world system as it was then as being in “a state of nature,” something that some have interpreted as anarchy. However, anarchy has order and purpose. It is not chaos. In fact, if we think of ...1 hour ago - Bernardâs Saturday Soliloquy for the week to May 17
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The latest UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 19, Fragile Gains - Child Wellbeing at Risk in an Unpredictable World, should be a wake up call for the New Zealand government. Ranking us 32nd out of 36 OECD and EU countries for child wellbeing, it lays bare a shameful truth: our kids ...9 hours ago - Energy security needs pipelines, not promises
Few issues are as urgent and as poorly understood as Australiaâs energy policy. While we build up renewable energy to replace an ageing and increasingly uneconomic coal fleet, we are more dependent on gas to ...22 hours ago - Catholic Theology on the Economy
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Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending harmfully misleading claims, produced primarily for use by thinly-resourced newswrooms but also directly available to the general public. We announced this (renewed) collaboration in April 2024 in a blog post and have published more than 30 ...23 hours ago - Maybe Little should actually win the election first?
So, Andrew Little thinks the Wellington City Council should cancel its plans for the Golden Mile, because there's an election in five months: Andrew Little told Nine to Noon he'd be disappointed to see the council march ahead with the plan, given local body elections are to be held ...23 hours ago - Showcasing the economic benefits of AUKUSâtoday
To convince the public of AUKUSâs value, government and industry messaging should focus on how the program can provide benefits in the near termânot in 20 years. AUKUS is a megaproject that will define the ...24 hours ago
- Friday 16 May
The Council of Trade Unions met with Brooke van Velden and demanded that she reversed the recent pay equity changes. Remaining staff members at polytech UCOL may be expected to pick up some of the work of colleagues made redundant if a proposed restructure goes ahead. Health NZ on Thursday ...1 day ago - The Haka. The Cheering. Then The Bite.
IMPORTANT: Even if next week’s debate lessens the severe penalty onTe Pāti Māori, the punishment has been timed to ice their leaders out of Budget 2025, and the introduction of the anti Treaty of Waitangi Regulatory Standards Bill.When Te Pāti Māori stood up to perform a historic haka in the ...1 day ago - How to help the US Navy as it helps us: build a joint submarine facility
Thereâs a way for Australia to strengthen its case for the US presidential certification it will need for acquiring Virginia-class submarines. It should do so by accelerating construction of a planned shipyard in Western Australia ...1 day ago
- Why Hasnât Nicole McKee Registered Her Firearms?
In a stunning display of hypocrisy, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee, who also oversees firearms policy, has admitted she hasnât registered her own firearms on New Zealandâs Firearms Registry, despite the legal requirement for all licensed firearms owners to do so.This isnât just a minor oversight; itâs a slap in ...1 day ago
- The Hoon around the week to May 16
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts & talking about the week’s news with regular and special guests, including: on news about climate change. about the latest news from Trump and others on Gaza, Kashmir, Ukraine and much more. ...1 day ago
- Your Place
What do you do when you're in your placeWhat's going through your whirling mindI wish I could see inside of your placeIt looks like a better place than mineNumbers divineYou have to findSongwriters: Henry Binns / Sam Hardaker.Today’s newsletter is about the injustice and racism of the suspensions faced by ...1 day ago - Bernardâs Pick ânâ Mix & Daily Chorus for Friday, May 16
Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Friday, May 16:Auditor General John Ryan issued a scathing report yesterday into Oranga Tamariki’s abrupt and surprising cancellation and clawback last year of $60 million of funding for social services organisations, describing the agency’s (virtually nil) ...1 day ago - How A Creative Sector Dies
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Pacific island countries are being drawn into broader foreign information manipulation and interference efforts by countries such as Russia and China, which want to shape the global narrative in their favour. These operations often aim ...1 day ago
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #20 2025
Open access notables Institutionalizing politicized science, Moynihan & Herd, Science [editorial]: The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Grants have been canceled mid-project for featuring the wrong words. “Pauses” ...2 days ago
- Shipbuilding to Citizenship: solving the US skills shortage with immigration
Skill-based immigration can help the United States fill its severe shortage of shipbuilding workers, for both naval and civilian construction. Bolstering the labour pool would help the US and its allies match the Chinese maritime ...2 days ago
- Craig Renney – Locked out – Budget 2025 – and the choices of the Coalition Governm...
Craig Renney will share his insights into Budget 2025, showing exactly what is going on with the government accounts, and what it might mean for the Election next year. Who are the winners and losers from the choices made by the Minister of Finance? How might different choices lead to ...2 days ago - Brownlee stands up for democracy
Yesterday, parliament's white privilege committee recommended that three Te PÄti MÄori MPs be suspended for up to three weeks for opposing the racist Treaty Principles Bill with a haka. The penalty is outrageous and antidemocratic - and surprisingly, even National's Speaker agrees. At the beginning of question time today, he ...2 days ago
- How very dare you
2 days ago - Sri Lanka stalls Starlink over security and sovereignty concerns
Starlink is great for developing countries, offering connectivity without costly infrastructure. But itâs a challenge for their national security, since authorities canât monitor the traffic it carries. This policy conflict arose in Sri Lanka in ...2 days ago
- Economic Bulletin April/May 2025
Welcome to the April/May 2025 Economic Bulletin. The Minister of Finance has made it clear Budget 2025 will bring further cuts to public investment. She has chopped the operating allowance almost in half, said most government departments will not receive any additional funding, and signalled that numerous government programmes are ...2 days ago
- The video sums things up.
Let me make this short and sweet (taken from my other social media): Seeing some of the world’s richest men shaking the blood-stained hand of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin-Salman while being warmly introduced by US president Donald Trump pretty much sums up the era we live in. It was ...2 days ago
- 191 NZers now emigrating each day, including 15 babies & toddlers
The exodus of New Zealanders goes on at a rate of one A320-plane load a day, including 15 babies and toddlers on each plane, every day of the year. Photo: SuppliedBriefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Thursday, May 15:Statistics NZ reported yesterday ...2 days ago - The writing of Joseph S Nye Jr: highlights from The Strategist
Joseph S Nye Jr, who co-founded neoliberalism and identified the concept of soft power, died at the age of 88 on 6 May. Here are links to a selection from the 100 columns by Nye ...2 days ago
- Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Thursday, May 15
Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Thursday, May 15:Staffing shortages mean 60 patients in Palmerston North deemed high risk of getting bowel cancer have not been tested because of staffing shortages last year, Isaac Davison reports this morning for NZ Herald-$. See ...2 days ago - Australia must stop overlooking misogynistic youth extremism
Australiaâs young people are being radicalised to violence more frequently, more quickly, and for increasingly complicated reasonsâincluding the spread of misogynistic ideology. Itâs time we better understand the relationship between misogyny and violent extremism, and ...2 days ago
- Brownleeâs Bias: MÄori MPs Punished, van Velden Spared
In a Parliament thatâs supposed to uphold fairness, the recent punishments meted out to Te PÄti MÄori MPs for their haka protest compared to Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden for her use of the C-word expose a glaring double standard. Speaker Gerry Brownlee and the Privileges Committee have once ...2 days ago
- A Four-Letter Word
To me, coming from you,Friend is a four-letter word.End is the only part of the wordThat I heard.Call me morbid or absurd.But to me, coming from you,Friend is a four-letter word.Writer: John McCrea.The dilemma.The c-word! Brooke said it, loud and clear. You know the one. We all do, even if ...2 days ago - Trading in Tomorrow for Today
See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeansWearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smileOnce he had a future full of money, love, and dreamsWhich he spent like they was goin' outta styleKris Kristofferson, The Pilgrim, Chapter 33Luxon’s austerity reforms have objectively increased the country’s national debt, put ...2 days ago - How climate change is raising your electricity bill
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In August 2023, during an especially brutal Texas heat wave, I opened my electricity bill and was stunned by the total. As someone who studies climate change, I couldn’t help but connect the dots: global warming had made the heat wave ...2 days ago
- The Telepathy Tapes is a Trojan Horse
Hi,This week The Telepathy Tapes won “Best Indie Podcast” at the Webby Awards.“For the voiceless, thank you!” said documentary maker and creator Dickens on Instagram, surrounded by some children in Telepathy Tapes t-shirts.Ky Dickens with her hands around some children in Telepathy Tapes t-shirts.The podcast continues to grow in audience ...3 days ago - Gordon Campbell On The Mock Horror Over Political Profanity
Heavens to Betsy. Let me get this right. In her own opinion column, a female journalist (the fearsome Angela Vance) used a bad word to refer to female politicians who had just extinguished the ability of about 150,000 women to get fair pay for the work they do. The nation ...3 days ago - Outrageous and antidemocratic
That is the only way to describe the Privileges Committee's recommendation to suspend the leadership of Te PÄti MÄori for 21 sitting days for their haka protest against the racist Treaty Principles Bill (the haka's leader, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, gets only 7 days). Outrageous because this is the harshest penalty ever ...3 days ago
- Government Blames Labour For Andrea Vanceâs Article
The National-led government, flailing like a fish out of water, is now pointing fingers at Labour for Andrea Vanceâs critical column in The Post. Finance Minister Nicola Willis, in a display that can only be described as unhinged, has tried to pin the blame for Vanceâs blistering critique on the ...3 days ago
- AUKUS and deterrence: what, exactly, are we trying to deter?
AUKUS is one of the most ambitious allied defence undertakings in decades. But for all the high-end platforms and advanced capabilities it promises, a fundamental question remains underexplored: what, exactly, is AUKUS seeking to deter? ...3 days ago
- Editorsâ pick: Australiaâs security architecture must evolve, not regress
Alongside Monday’s cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese returned responsibility for the Australian Federal Police and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to the Home Affairs portfolio. ASPI executive director Justin Bassi outlined reasons for such a ...3 days ago
- When A Pay Cut Isn’t
3 days ago - Ministers of Finance
No, nothing so serious as fiscal policy. I saw this morning this chart in a tweet from a Canadian economics professor (prompted by the new ministerial appointments in Canada). I was digging around in the list of former New Zealand Ministers of Finance anyway, and thought it might be ...3 days ago - Into the gloopy quicksand
Item OneHere's something my erstwhile fellow blogger Emma Hart wrote today that I've remade into a riddle:There's a bunch of jobs in this country that require tertiary qualifications and pay only just over minimum wage. What do they all have in common?Ten points and a chocolate fish to everyone who ...3 days ago - Chinese pressure is a part of Solomon Islandsâ politics. Other Pacific countries should take note
The Chinese embassy in Solomon Islands has reportedly pressured newly appointed Minister of Rural Development Daniel Waneoroa to quit an international group that challenges Chinaâs authoritarian regime. This incident highlights Beijingâs increased tendency to pressure ...3 days ago
- An alternative vision for Aotearoa
Its the budget next week, where National will inflict another round of cuts on kiwis in order to keep funding handouts to landlords and rich people. And while Labour is doing nothing (sorry, "keeping its powder dry"), the Greens are acting as the main opposition, releasing an alternative budget to ...3 days ago
- To Play the Queen of Hearts: Accepted (again!)
No, I haven’t disappeared from the internet, and I still intend to get around to finishing off that Narnia analysis. It’s just I’ve been doing what I am actually supposed to be doing. Specifically, writing original fiction – let’s just say May 2025 has been fairly productive thus far. Oh, ...3 days ago - No, Australian trade isnât diversifying away from China
Australiaâs free-trade agreements with nations other than China have delivered diversification in neither exports nor imports over the past decade, leaving Australia more tightly bound by trade to China than any other advanced nation. While ...3 days ago
- Outsourcing Operations
Well, we know where we're goin'But we don't know where we've beenAnd we know what we're knowin'But we can't say what we've seenAnd we're not little childrenAnd we know what we wantAnd the future is certainGive us time to work it outSongwriters: David Byrne / Tina Weymouth / Jerry Harrison ...3 days ago - Localising northern supply chains will strengthen national resilience
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- Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Wednesday, May 14
Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Wednesday, May 14:The Government is diverting its NZ Superannuation Fund (NZSF) contribution for 2025/26 of $39 $61 million to the NZSF-managed venture capital fund Elevate. Nicola Willis says NZSF will start sending money back to the ...3 days ago - The Lai Ching-te government shifts gears
Complex developments in Taiwanâs domestic legislative politics may affect the regional security outlook over the next 12 months. Since his election in 2024, Taiwan president Lai Ching-te has upheld the disciplined foreign policy of his ...3 days ago
- Nationalâs Law and Order Fiasco
The National-led coalition, which came to power in 2023 with grand promises of restoring law and order, has entirely failed to deliver. Along with help from the mainstream media, they painted a grim picture of a crime-ridden New Zealand, vowing to crack down on gangs, bolster police numbers, and make ...3 days ago
- Killing Kiwi Thoughtlessly
Reprinted from an earlier post by Mountain TūīOPINION AND ANALYSISLast week, on the same day the Government tore through Pay Equity under urgency, they passed another law under urgency.The government called it the “Wildlife (Authorisations) Amendment Bill”. Greenpeace called it the “Kiwi Killing Bill”.Now this topic has a number of ...3 days ago - Trumpâs science cuts threaten public research data
US President Donald Trumpâs cuts to scientific research create anxieties about the accessibility of research data. Scientists worldwide fear websites and data sets hosted in the United States will be deleted or decommissioned. While private ...4 days ago
- Government Shouldn’t Ignore Courts Over Voting Rights
Under Chris Luxonâs "leadership", the coalition of chaos government is doubling down on policies that undermine democratic principles, particularly on prisoner voting rights and the voting age. The kicker here is that these issues should have already been settled.Two landmark cases that have already gone through the courts expose the ...4 days ago
- We’re all for change as long as it doesn’t change anything
My favourite bit of Gough Whitlam rhetoric is a three word retort he gave in a rowdy parliamentary debate.After all, declared Sir Winton Turnbull pompously, I am a country member.Yes, Whitlam called out, We remember.Gough, ages ago, with Bob HawkeOf all our four letter words, the C one packs the ...4 days ago - Stress-testing US soft power
The father of soft power and smart power has died, just as the United States has been giving those concepts a deathly stress test. Whereas US President Donald Trump thinks hard power is all he ...4 days ago
- Copy of Budget 2025: delivering for whom?
On 22 May, the coalition government will release its budget for 2025, which it says will focus on "boosting economic growth, improving social outcomes, controlling government spending, and investing in long-term infrastructure.â  But who, really, is this budget designed to serve? What values and visions for Aotearoa New Zealand lie ...4 days ago
- One year on: no agreement for New Caledonia despite serious negotiations
Itâs been a year since massive riots shook New Caledonia, but progress towards a long-term agreement on the territoryâs status has been slow. Last week, intense closed-door talks failed to reach concensus. The discussions centred ...4 days ago
- Pay Equity Changes Bad For The Economy
The Coalition of Chaos has done it again, proving their knack for prioritising the wealthy over the workers. The Pay Equity Amendment Bill, rammed through Parliament under urgency, is a kick in the guts for low-waged women, and obliterating decades of progress on pay equity reform in New Zealand.Workplace Relations ...4 days ago
- Luxon’s Ladies.
Sisters are doin' it for themselvesStandin' on their own two feetAnd ringin' on their own bellsSaid, sisters are doin' it for themselvesSongwriters: Annie Lennox / Dave Stewart.Did you ever fancy the idea of protesting? Of taking to the streets with your fellows and standing up to the system? Is there ...4 days ago - Electricity inflation fears growing as Z Energy shuts Flick
Briefly in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, May 13:Monopoly nation just struck again. Flick Electric is shutting, making the electricity market even more dominated by the big four gentailers: the 51% state-owned Meridian, Genesis and Mercury, and the privately owned Contact.Consumers increasingly fear another winter ...4 days ago - Taiwan lacks clarity on energy security
Anyone would think that Taiwan, faced with a risk of blockade from China, would be doing all it could to ensure self-sufficiency or at least long endurance without supplies. But in energy security, it is going ...4 days ago
- How to deny climate change using the IPCC report
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters The new Department of Energy secretary, Chris Wright, until recently was the CEO of Liberty Energy, the nation’s second-largest fracking firm. In 2024, the firm published a manifesto called “Bettering Human Lives,” in which Wright makes a provocative statement that would ...4 days ago
- Gordon Campbell On The Parental Panic Over Young Kids Online
Creating a policy group to investigate a R16 ban on social media provides the government with a perfectly designed soapbox. The findings donât have to end up suggesting anything useful, let alone a practical course of action. Yet in the meantime, the issue enables the government to connect with anxious ...5 days ago
- Beyond the percentage: Australiaâs defence debate needs a smarter metric
The global strategic landscape is undeniably shifting. Great power competition is reasserting itself, technological disruption is accelerating, and the familiar certainties of decades past are eroding. For a trading nation such as Australia, deeply connected ...5 days ago
- Far from responsible and anything but gutsy
Back home to the seaside village, back home to a waterlogged and gobsmacked New Zealand.Waterlogged by the most April rain in April for half a century.Gobsmacked by this dismal government managing to set a new low in its disregard for anyone who isn’t white, wealthy or a man.Fair-minded and right-thinking ...5 days ago - Albaneseâs visit shows Indonesia is still a foreign policy priority
As Anthony Albanese prepares to travel to Jakarta for his first state visit in his second term, the symbolism is clear: Indonesia remains a cornerstone of Australiaâs foreign policy. Since taking office, the Albanese government ...5 days ago
- Monday 12 May
Opposition to the Governmentâs attacks on pay equity are gathering steam, with protests around the country and more than 65,000 people already signed on to a petition calling on the Government to reverse the changes. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says Cabinet will consider a social media ban on under-16s, despite ...5 days ago
- Naked corruption
When National passed its corrupt, Muldoonist fast-track law, they were criticised for accepting donations from fast-track applicants. You'd think that after such criticism, and the consequent effect on the reputation of our state, they might have ceased the practice - but of course not. Instead, they're still taking money from ...5 days ago
- Nicola Willis Calls Pay Equity “A Grievance Industry”
Nicola Willis pulled the sympathy and sexism card this morning in an opinion piece for Stuff/The Post.In it, claimed she had been much maligned by, well, everyone, on pay equity, and “mainstream” journalists were guilty of “sexist slurs” and misinformation against her.The offending piece was Andrea Vance’s “The girl-math budget ...5 days ago
- Rhys Williams – Arsehole of the Week
Itâs time to shine the spotlight on a particularly vile specimen slithering through New Zealandâs political underbelly: Rhys Williams, this weekâs Arsehole Award winner. Williams is a NZ First party activist (who didnât renew his membership), and has carved out a niche as a homophobic, defamatory troll, hiding behind the ...5 days ago
- Bookshelf: Australia in a fragmenting and deglobalising world
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