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Is New Zealand really as ‘racist as fuck’?
Written By: - Date published: 1:35 pm, April 12th, 2018 - 85 comments
I am inclined to believe that there are at least some New Zealanders who are as “racist as fuck”.
Home Sweet Home
Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, November 4th, 2017 - 23 comments
The changing face of New Zealand.
- DPMC drops the ball on intelligence oversight
When John Key rammed his 2013 spy bill through Parliament, he made much of new "safeguards" which would ensure the GCSB did not abuse the new powers he was giving it. Among those safeguards was a new statutory advisory panel ...3 hours ago - ATAP 2.0 – first details look great
Auckland’s next decade of transport is looking fantastic with latest version of the Auckland Transport Alignment Project just released by Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff. We’ll have some more complete analysis but here are some of the highlights: It’s ...4 hours ago - Avengers: Infinity War review: An empty spectacle, until…
The end is nigh. Avengers: Infinity War is out. It's gonna make a ton of money. Image: Marvel Studios If you haven’t seen a good half of the 18 previous Marvel movies, you won’t know what ...5 hours ago - A terrible ideaShane Jones wants to politicise the public service:Cabinet Minister Shane Jones, says he would like to "soften that line" between governance and the bureaucracy, including allowing ministers to appoint top officials. In an interview on the provincial growth fund Jones, ...5 hours ago
- Fossil Free Acceleration Tour with Bill McKibben: Wellington, Sunday 6 May, and Auckland, Monday 7 M...
The campaign to end the mining and burning of fossil fuels in Aotearoa has had a major win with the Government’s announcement of an end to new offshore oil and gas exploration. But that still leaves plenty of existing permits ...7 hours ago - Light Rail is not really about the Airport
There’s been plenty of talk about light rail in the media and why we shouldn’t build it. So we thought we’d offer a different point of view. On Tuesday, the Herald published the below piece from me about it. There’s ...9 hours ago - Binary Absolutism and Echo Chambers
The trouble with a lot of people’s pseudo-engagement with the social, cultural, economic and political world around them is not so much that there are problems per se that we perhaps see every day, because those are surely readily apparent, ...17 hours ago - Corbyn meets with Jewish representatives
So, the Jewish Leadership Council and Board of Deputies of British Jews met with Jeremy Corbyn to discuss the issue of anti-Semitism in Labour. They say they found Labour leader's response wanting.After a meeting with Mr Corbyn, which lasted more ...1 day ago - Economist Jeffrey Sachs warns of fraying societiesMedia Statement For Immediate Release Sunday 22 April 2018 ECONOMIST JEFFREY SACHS WARNS OF FRAYING SOCIETIES According to renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, the unravelling taking place in the United States shows why economic inequality is socially and morally unsustainable, a ...2 days ago
- Wage Labour and Capital – Otago Socialist Society event, 5.30pm, Monday, April 30
Gareth from the Otago Socialist Society will be presenting and hosting a discussion on Wage Labour and Capital. Written in 1847 by Karl Marx and published towards the end of the wave of European revolutions that began in 1848, Wage ...2 days ago - Charli XCX and her posse are shifting pop music’s equilibrium
Five of her closest collaborators are making some of the strongest, most interesting pop music around right now. Charli XCX Photo: Charlotte Rutherford. Charli XCX is making the best pop music in the world right now. There, ...2 days ago - Health Ministry says it’s failing to provide adequate healthcare to transgender people
There’s hope. Image: 123rf The Ministry of Health says it’s failing to provide adequate healthcare to transgender people, an internal memo released to The Wireless shows. The memo, which was received by Health Minister David Clark and ...2 days ago - How should smarter pricing affect business cases?
Through the Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP), the former government and Council agreed that road pricing (which it called “smarter transport pricing” needs to be a key part of Auckland’s transport future. The new government, although occasionally sceptical about pricing, has continued investigation ...2 days ago - Hard News: The remarkable rise of Michael Avenatti
The roiling, leaking, chaotic, corrupt White House of the current US presidency has delivered a succession of remarkable figures into the pblic eye. Nearly all of them are fools, grotesques or both.But one new face is clearly neither: Michael Avenatti. ...2 days ago - The tories knew all alongFor the past few weeks pressure has been growing on the British government over its persecution of the "Windrush generation". People who legally came to the UK, lived there their entire lives, and had a permanent right of residency are ...2 days ago
- Letting In The Light.
2 days ago - Mainstream media-political alliance gets vindictive
Hala Jaber, highly Respected Middle East correspondent and author of The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman’s Fight to Save Two Orphans.” Image Credit: Goodreads. Several things have come together in the last few months – centred around news ...2 days ago - Democracy wins in ArmeniaFor the past eleven days Armenians have been protesting against their Prime Minister's efforts to do a Putin and make himself ruler for life. Initially, he had responded with repression, arresting protesters and the leader of the opposition. But now, ...2 days ago
- Is this the Political Cartoon of the Year?!
. . Can this political cartoon from a Fairfax community newspaper be the most insightful and damaging to National, ever penned? . . After all the criticisms; all the protests; all the thousands of media stories; and seven years ...2 days ago - Cheaper Fares or Better Services?
The draft Government Policy Statement clearly indicates that the Government are keen on encouraging more people to use public transport. In the release for the GPS they state this about the 46% increase in funding for PT: This will support ...2 days ago - Foreign drivers and NZ’s crash stats: click-bait commentary VS actual data
People should try not to abuse the real statistics for simplistic cheap points scoring, whether this is on social media or through the media itself (in other words, politicians current or former making a play of it). Currently there is ...3 days ago - Hard News: The shared-use path that no one will useOne of the things that gives me pause before setting off on my bike from Point Chevalier to anywhere in the direction of the city is the prospect of navigating the many traffic hazards in the area either side of ...3 days ago
- An open letter to the Law Commission on abortion law reform
"The law seems designed to strip patients of their dignity." Photo: Josh Adamski / Unsplash The Law Commission is seeking public input on how New Zealand’s abortion laws can be reworked to treat terminations as a ...3 days ago - Climate change: What about coal?Now the government has banned offshore oil exploration and effectively called time on the gas industry's future, people are asking the obvious question: what about coal? But the government says they haven't done any work on this - something National ...3 days ago
- How the FBI has disrupted NZ’s sex work industry
The closure of Backpage.com in a sex trafficking bust has had unexpected consequences in New Zealand. Photo: Filip Mroz / Unsplash Before New Zealand Cracker - a classifieds website used by sex workers - was shut down ...3 days ago - The Politics of Road Safety
This is a guest post from Bevan Woodward. He is the project director for SkyPath and spokesperson for Movement, an alliance of national organisations seeking safe journeys for active transport users. bevan@movement.org.nz Last week Julie Anne Genter released an evaluation report ...3 days ago - Tough Crowd – James Malcolm
Can comedians make their parents laugh? Made with funding support from NZ On Air. ...3 days ago - Fransplaining Science: So will coffee give me cancer now?
Coffee now carries a cancer warning in California. So will my daily cup of joe kill me? Photo: Tyler Nix / Unsplash. In our new weekly column, Fransplaining Science, biochemist Dr Frances-Rose Schumacher explains science. Late last ...3 days ago - The REAL Sex Talk: Myths & StereotypesSlut or stud? Pink or blue? Let's talk myths and stereotypes. Made with funding support from NZ On Air. ...3 days ago
- Simon Bridges: It’s not fair!
PRESS RELEASE: SIMON J BRIDGES DATE: 23 APRIL, 2018 BEGINS It’s not fair. It’s just not fair!! I’m voted leader and it’s just not fair!!! I mean, take the last week for example. Parliament is away for a bit and ...3 days ago - Continuous improvement needed to drive ridership
Public Transport in Auckland has improved remarkably over the last few decades. The number of annual boardings have almost tripled from a low of just 33 million to 92 million today, well ahead of population growth and most of that ...3 days ago - War remembrance: Acting out or working through?
The way we go about remembering the past matters. Trump’s pledge to “Make America Great Again,” and the pro-Brexit visions of Imperial Britain are urgent reminders that our narratives about the past can have a strong effect on the present. ...3 days ago - How Open an Economy?
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- The Dogs of War
In 1954, Sir Winston Churchill famously advised an American audience that “to jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war”. Churchill was of course someone who knew about “war-war”. His political career had encompassed both world wars and he had been ...4 days ago - Novichock – a marketing ploy?A new line of sunflower oil on Russian supermarket shelves.Image credit: Marcel Sardo @marcelsardo I came across this on twitter – a new line of sunflower oil launched on the Russian market. The labels claim the product is conducive to a ...4 days ago
- Imperialism, Syria and geopoliticsby Yassamine Mather Irrespective of what the experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons say, there is no doubt that the Syrian dictator is capable of using weapons of mass destruction against his own population and it ...4 days ago
- Flashback Sunday: How rail was saved in Auckland
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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Earth Day and the Hockey Stick: A Singular Message When the hockey stick was first attacked in the late 1990s ...4 days ago - New research, April 9-15, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation 1. Pathways limiting warming to 1.5°C: a tale of turning around in no time? (open access) 2. Climate change and technology: examining opinion formation of geoengineering 3. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: ...5 days ago - Material for next Imperialism Study/Discussion GroupFollowing a break after the discussions on Imperialism in the 21st Century, the Imperialism Study/Discussion Group is moving on to Tony Norfield’s work on the global financial system. These discussions are being led by Tony, who recommends the following: ...6 days ago
- On intelligence oversight, a broader perspective.
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After Jacinda’s historic announcement that brought an end to new offshore oil and gas exploration, we’ve been hearing a lot from the industry about how the sky is about to fall in. Fun fact: it isn’t. But just in case ...6 days ago - Jacinda Ardern’s excellent adventure
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- Improving Wellington’s Rail Network Part 4
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- Britain’s Interests Nowhere Near The Moral High Ground.
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- Sean Hannity (hopefully, the fist of many)
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6 days ago - Continuing the debate on imperialism todayThe Imperialism Study/Discussion Group initiated by Redline is now moving on to Tony Norfield’s work on the global financial system. At the same time, people involved in the study/discussion continue to chat about imperialism in the 21st century and, in ...7 days ago
- On living under a hyperreal sky
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- Ministry sets out plans for VET reviewThe government should ensure a network of regional provision, support a diverse range of learners and facilitate work-based learning, according to a paper published by the Ministry of Education. The paper sets out the scope and process for a review the ...1 week ago
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- TEU members celebrate general staffUnion members across New Zealand will come together tomorrow to celebrate the contribution general staff make to their institutions. They go by many names – general staff, professional staff, allied staff – and they are crucial to making sure students enjoy a ...1 week ago
- Why Record Store Day still matters
Waxing lyrical. Photo: 123RF Everyone loves music. And for most people these days, their music listening is conducted online through streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify. However, for some fans, the physical still trumps ...1 week ago - When extension becomes effective refusalI've had a lot of bad OIA experiences, and my fair share of Ministers and officials playing games with extensions to delay access to documents until an issue is out of the media. However, I've never had anything as bad ...1 week ago
- Copies of CPTPP Submissions – Jane Kelsey, Laila Harre, Barry Coates, NZCTU, BWI and the Alliance ...Please click on the links below each name to download their submission on the CPTPP Jane Kelsey’s CPTPP Submission Jane Kelsey’s CPTPP Submission Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission Barry Coates’ CPTPP Submission Barry Coates’ ...1 week ago
- Laila Harre’s CPTPP SubmissionClick the link below to download Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission The post Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission appeared first on It's Our Future. ...1 week ago
- Less than open IIBack in March, I received some OIA'd documents from Clare Curran, the Minister of Open Government. Among other things, they showed that SSC had presented her with an draft open government strategy in November. Naturally, it was kept secret. I ...1 week ago
- Jane Kelsey’s CPTPP SubmissionSUBMISSION ON THE REVISED TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT Professor Jane Kelsey, Faculty of Law, The University of Auckland 1. I am a Professor of Law at the University of Auckland, specialising in international economic regulation. From 2010 I closely monitored the ...1 week ago
- “Clarkism” Still Driving The Labour Party.
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- Tough Crowd – Amanda KennedyCan comedians make their parents laugh? Check out the first episode of Tough Crowd, season two. Made with funding support from NZ On Air. ...1 week ago
- It is ten seconds to midnight. . The unthinkable has happened. US, French, and British military forces attacked various targets in Syria. The attack took place at around mid-day-1.00PM local time (14 April); . . Trump described the attack with flowery words that served only ...1 week ago
- Transport is about people
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- Privacy Bill to protect and promote privacy risksA Bill introduced by Justice Minister Hon Andrew Little to replace New Zealand’s Privacy Act has had its first reading. ...2 weeks ago
- Bill protects Māori protocols around deathJustice Minister Andrew Little’s Māori death protocols Bill had its first reading in Parliament last night. “The Bill requires coroners to consider Māori cultural protocols when determining who can view, touch or remain near a tūpāpaku - body of deceased. ...2 weeks ago
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- Lab Animals in NZ Are Waiting for MPs to Decide Their Fate
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- Public Service must remain free, frank and fearless – PSAAny moves to politicise the public service will be strongly opposed by unions and public servants as bad for New Zealand and New Zealanders, the PSA says. ...5 hours ago
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- Something has to change: politicians pledge $30b to save Auckland commuters
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