Independent Analysis and Reportage
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Worst threesome ever. Let’s be honest. The last three years has been a shit show for New Zealand. While borrowing more than Labour did, this coalition government have instituted an austerity by stealth programme.
By Jale Moala Qiulae Wong may have failed to win her electorate seat in New Zealand’s general election on Saturday. Still, the Fiji-born political newcomer has achieved something that three previous leaders of her party could not — and she’s getting into Parliament anyway. She has taken the Opportunity Party across the five percent threshold
Like Guns, Germs and Steel, this book is ambitious, provocative and imperfect. It’s also difficult to put down.
A report has recommended a feasibility study into additional national exams for Year 6, 10 and 12 students.
The 2019 shooting of the young Aboriginal man wasn’t an isolated event. A new documentary offers a confronting examination of the bigger picture.
RNZ News With more than 90 percent of the vote counted in the New Zealand general election, the final result was still up in the air last night, but the lead governing coalition party National has been left bruised, losing some of its most senior and experienced MPs. On current results the right bloc —
Provisional results suggest a parliamentary overhang of nine seats, which means a majority requires 66 seats.
COMMENTARY: By Jason Jones The American public’s outrage over Gaza just decided this week’s US midterms. Democrats have now won control of both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, taking them from a belligerently defensive Republican Party that not only did the bidding of Israel and its allies in America’s foreign policy
The company’s actions show that, above users’ rights, public interest, and democracy itself, prevails its economic interests and the maximization of their profits
My expertise in strategic management has given me an advantage on the padel court.
The PM will devote Monday to chair meetings on the mid-December budget update before flying off again for the COP summit in Turkey.
The same racist, Zionist logic that justified the Gaza genocide is now making it difficult for the Jewish opposition to reach a deal with Palestinian parties to oust Netanyahu, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Israel’s general election last week unmasked beyond question the West’s much-cherished fiction of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic