Written By: - Date published: 8:41 am, January 12th, 2017 - 76 comments
Just remember that
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, October 12th, 2016 - 67 comments
National have slammed the door shut on the parents of already settled migrants who wish to move to NZ to complete the family unit. Minister Michael Woodhouse accuses elderly Asians of bludging off the NZ taxpayer. You won’t believe the howls of outrage from the right!
Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, September 27th, 2016 - 274 comments
The first Presidential kicks off this arvo. Who will win? Do we care? Should we care? Stay tuned Standarnistas, it’ll be a doozy!
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, August 22nd, 2016 - 141 comments
In seeking to understand and remedy racism in NZ we should start with the actions of governments and leaders, not with the words of blowhard media constructs.
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, July 21st, 2016 - 7 comments
Hard times call for strong voices. Jesse Williams speaks from the Black Lives Matter movement.
Written By: - Date published: 8:32 am, May 22nd, 2016 - 54 comments
Structural injustice alive and well in NZ.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, January 27th, 2016 - 79 comments
How many more lies will John Key tell today in his so-called State of the Nation address? Virtual chocolate fish to whomever guesses the closest number.
Written By: - Date published: 5:18 am, January 26th, 2016 - 20 comments
Today is Australia Day, the federal celebration of the invasion of the big island to the west of us. Journalist Stan Grant lays bare the Australian Dream in a stunning contribution to the recent IQ2Oz debate. Clearly, as the video shows, saying sorry isn’t enough.
Written By: - Date published: 8:02 am, August 29th, 2015 - 128 comments
Yesterday Melbourne stood up for human rights. Would we in NZ have done the same?
Written By: - Date published: 6:13 pm, July 19th, 2015 - 179 comments
With overall confidence dropping and Labour being all over the headlines for the past week, Labour’s support…
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, July 15th, 2015 - 301 comments
Although the issue, the unfettered flow of overseas money into Auckland’s housing market, is important Labour’s current handling of this issue is not optimal and needs to be reconsidered.
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, June 28th, 2015 - 166 comments
That’s not my headline. That’s Stuff’s business section’s headline.
Written By: - Date published: 8:50 am, June 20th, 2015 - 106 comments
In the land of the free and the brave the NRA is trying to say that the way to stop incidents such as the Charleston Church massacre is to have more guns. And the right are trying to dispute the reality that the incident was caused by racism.
Written By: - Date published: 9:48 am, February 5th, 2015 - 51 comments
Has it really been 11 years since Brash’s infamous Orewa speech? Yesterday Gareth Morgan gave a very different kind of speech there…
Written By: - Date published: 11:04 pm, December 9th, 2014 - 85 comments
a new report shows that poverty related illnesses are growing at a rapid rate for asian children, and so are other poverty indicators. some of this is related to a more settled population, but we also need to talk about racism.
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, November 11th, 2014 - 38 comments
When John Key takes to the media to over-hype the risks of ISIS terrorism to NZ, there is a cost.
Written By: - Date published: 6:12 pm, February 1st, 2014 - 121 comments
John Key says that the Greens make personal attacks: calling for ministers to be sacked. This is hardly a diversionary personal attack unlike the nastiest of Key’s cheap point scoring . The Greens “go hard” in focusing on relevant issues: public transport, environment, poverty & inequality gap.
Written By: - Date published: 5:01 pm, November 18th, 2013 - 340 comments
You don’t have to be white and male and financially wealthy to assume a prominent position within systems of patriarchy, but it helps. And you don’t have to be financially strapped and black and female to feel the full weight of patriarchy always pressing down on you, but it helps.
Written By: - Date published: 7:35 am, July 30th, 2013 - 19 comments
At the moment there are plenty of racists trying to accuse Labour of racism. I might put together a post on the Iwi/Kwi Orewa Nats later on, but in the mean time I give you – John Banks.
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 am, May 31st, 2013 - 133 comments
Further reaction to the Nisbet cartoons, and contact details for making complaints.
Written By: - Date published: 9:08 am, May 30th, 2013 - 194 comments
Update: Race Relations Commissioner Susan Devoy to hold a press conference at 1pm.
Written By: - Date published: 8:02 am, May 25th, 2013 - 254 comments
Winston Peters is up to his old tricks again, with a racist attack on Chinese immigration. Heaven help us all if Peters holds the balance of power in 2014.
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, April 20th, 2013 - 14 comments
The Sensible Sentencing Trust does not support vigilantism. From a certain point of view.
Written By: - Date published: 8:34 am, February 18th, 2013 - 37 comments
Despite boasting so frequently of how tough he is and how weak liberals are, Richard Prosser chickened out of face a few nabie-pambie liberal’s at the Aro community hall.
If only he’d extend that no-show to parliament. For good.
Written By: - Date published: 9:50 am, October 22nd, 2012 - 74 comments
Slavery was abolished in the 19th century, wasn’t it? From wage-slavery to human-trafficking, modern day forms of slavery have many faces, all in the interests of profits for the few. What are these different faces, and what impact do they have on the lives of ordinary people?
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, August 20th, 2012 - 9 comments
Structural discrimination is alive and well in NZ. It makes nonsense of all the right-wing “one law for all” and beneficiary bashing rhetoric.
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, November 25th, 2011 - 16 comments
This post originally appeared on the Hand Mirror and we reproduce it with their permission. It is an account of a National Party meeting in the Wairarapa, and a stark reminder of the dark heart of the Right that hates and fears anything different, which wants a New Zealand built for a rich, Pakeha, male, straight business-owning elite.
Written By: - Date published: 12:43 pm, September 8th, 2011 - 36 comments
Nicky Hager’s Other People’s Wars and the Urewera ‘terror raids’ fiasco raise, once again, serious questions. Are the security agencies that are meant to protect our society from threats, themselves operating outside the law and democratic control? Not according to Key. And he knows because he got advice. From whom? Why the security agencies of course.
Written By: - Date published: 11:17 am, September 5th, 2011 - 38 comments
There’s plenty of good posts around already on National’s election list, how its dominated by white men and there’s very little room for new blood. But just how bad is their list? I thought I would do a comparison of the ethnic and gender balance of the National, Labour, Green, and ACT lists. Judge for yourself.
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, August 10th, 2011 - 27 comments
Lots of countries have daft old laws still on the books. Not many countries drag out these relics and start applying them again.
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