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
Read MoreWe talk to ex-Green MP Gareth Hughes and Greenpeace campaigner Amanda Larsson about the current state of NZ’s Energy infrastructure and what possibilities there are for the future
Read More1/200 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?
Read MorePart 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.
Read MorePart 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MorePhilip & Justine talk to Aimee Simpson & Leon Salter from the Tertiary Education Action Group Aotearoa (TEAGA).
Read MoreBranko and Kyle talk NZ’s housing market, recent COVID and Immigration/MIQ news and briefly touch on the current situation with Cuba.
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreWe talk with Byron Clark about the groups involved with last week’s “Farmers’” protests organised by Groundswell NZ.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreWe spoke with Lisa Meto Fox about the announcement of an official Government apology for the Dawn Raids, the context and history of that, and the generational effects of the policy.
Read MoreBranko and Kyle speak with Olivier Jutel about the NZ National Party's swing into some hard bigotry and discuss the recent reappearance of the COVID-19 'lab leak' theory.
Read MoreIn 1981, at the same time as Ronald Reagan, an anti-tax, far right celebrity won the Presidency, socialist Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington in the then conservative state of Vermont.
Read MoreWe speak with Ti about the situation post-Waikeria protests and People Against Prisons Aotearoa’s Reconnection Fund. Justine then speaks with us about recent Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Palestinian human rights.
Read More1/200 and guest Paul Kelland talk NZ’s Budget21, the public service payfreeze, welfare, and everything else we could get to in Budget discourse.
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