In 2015, Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL) formed to stop the development of 480 unaffordable homes on their land. In 2020 the New Zealand government bought the land from Fletchers, the company trying to develop it.
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Branko & Philip talk with Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges & American Prestige) about developments in Afghanistan, the Taliban, AUKUS, nuclear weapons, American Exceptionalism & run out of time to talk about China.
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Aotearoa has had an excellent response to Covid compared to most countries, but it's not beyond scrutiny. In fact there continue to be serious problems with Government action and strategy on the response.
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We talk about NZ’s current COVID response and the attack in Auckland mall late last week. We’re then joined by Luke Savage to talk about the current electoral situation in Canada where Justin Trudeau and the ruling Liberal Party have just called a snap election - 2 years early
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We have Mark Rickerby, David Hood and Andrew Chen on the cast to talk information, data and the communication of that to a variety of audiences during NZ’s Covid response.
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Ross and James join the cast to talk NZ’s latest COVID outbreak of the Delta variety. We talk about the response so far, and the hesitancy of Labour to take action beyond the health response.
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In 2018, nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants went on strike for the first time in 29 years. They won significant concessions from the DHBs, but their ultimate goal of addressing the chronic understaffing was promised and not delivered
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1/200 is joined by Paris Marx to talk tech, media and political economy. How should we analyse and critique the growth of tech-capitalism and what action can we take?
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Part 3! In 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise it’s workforce.
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Part 2! In 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise it’s workforce. But workers in Wairoa and towns across the country said no
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In 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise it’s workforce
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Philip & Justine talk to Aimee Simpson & Leon Salter from the Tertiary Education Action Group Aotearoa (TEAGA).
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Branko and Kyle talk NZ’s housing market, recent COVID and Immigration/MIQ news and briefly touch on the current situation with Cuba.
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In 2016, Aotearoa New Zealand’s parliament passed a law banning the use of Zero Hours Contracts. In the preceding two years, Unite the Union had forced fast-food companies to stop using them in their contracts
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We talk with Byron Clark about the groups involved with last week’s “Farmers’” protests organised by Groundswell NZ.
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On this day 35 years ago, July 9, the homosexual law reform bill passed it’s third reading and sex between men was finally decriminalised. The campaign polarised New Zealand to levels not seen since the Springbok Tour in 1981, as a vicious anti-campaign took hold, driven by fundamentalist churches.
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We speak with David Slack about alternate media platforms like Substack, the inertia of current established media, and the challenges for independent journalists and content creators.
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