Tauranga is not Northland, it is not 2015, and National will win Tauranga – with or without Winston Peters gearing up for one last big score
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There is an opening for Key’s protégé. Opinion polls gave National an average of 34% in January-February; a seven percentage point increase since Luxon became leader.
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It can be tempting to decide that someone who, blithely oblivious, is standing alongside white-supremacists, anti-semites, and proto-fascists, is too far gone. For some, that might be true. For many, they’re being hoodwinked and used, and if we care about them (and we have the spoons) I believe we should reach out in whatever ways we can.
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The battle lines have been drawn, on Twitter, facebook, and in Council planning meetings. We are either pro-intensification, or we don’t care about equitable housing. This forced and simplistic dichotomy makes any debate about how we do intensification, often very difficult to have.
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A week ago a majority in Berlin voted to turn over 200,000 private rental properties owned by corporate landlords into public housing
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This week, we’ve seen the synthesis of the opposition to Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 strategy emerge in three similar forms.
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Saturday 18 September is the fifth international day of action by the BDS movement calling for a boycott of the global sportswear company Puma over its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association (IFA)
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Stark differences are apparent between the two terror attacks that New Zealand has experienced in the past three years
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We’ve seen constant attacks from media in the US, UK and Australia, often spreading outright disinformation about Aotearoa being a prison camp, or using other such language to describe the (imaginary) authoritarianism that has taken over our country.
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Back in 2016, the IMF reported that New Zealand had the least affordable housing market among its list of the 30 wealthiest countries, with prices rising 11% in the year prior.
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Trying to trap the lost baby whale in a net of austerity clichés through headlines and press releases came across as a vote loser rather than a vote winner. It might have gotten people to click and share but turning the poor creature into a main character in the culture war seemed relentlessly negative, cruel and pointless.
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As far as an eyeball check for reasonableness and believability, it’s a big problem if your analytics system spits out an assessment of media bias that roughly accords with the conspiratorial claims of deplatformed white supremacist Twitter accounts
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Building and sustaining left-wing independent media organisations has always been, and will always be, a key strategic task for those of us working toward a socialist future
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In order to move us past the realm of ambitious rhetoric and into transformative terrain, we must ground the GND conversation in analyses of power.
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Our Kiwi identity and shared culture is built from a legacy of travelers and explorers, going back one thousand years, and more, to when the ancestors of Māori left Hawaiki.
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At some point, we may find that the economic consequences and social harm of elimination will prove too much for New Zealanders. Unemployment is already forecast to reach double figures. While there is a lot of goodwill and support for the government’s approach now, at some point this is going to subside.
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It has quickly become obvious the economic impact of COVID-19 on the economy will be widespread and devastating. Governments around the world are responding to this crisis with economic stimulus packages designed to soften the blow of the pandemic.
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