Independent Analysis and Reportage
Asia Pacific Report A South African activist representing more than 200,000 shack dwellers has praised New Zealanders for their international solidarity against settler colonialism and appealed for them to “emulate” their 1981 stand against apartheid over Palestine. S’bu Zikode, co-founder and current leader of Abahlali baseMjondolo, recalled how it had been 15 years since he
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 Mark Rabago of RNZ Pacific Proposed changes to the United States Census could worsen longstanding data inequalities in Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), and American Samoa, raising concerns about access to federal resources, disaster recovery funding, and political representation. The non-profit organisation Right to Democracy has urged the US Census
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
Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party has criticised the NZ Electoral Commission for failing to take any action against what it says has been an NZME ban on key campaign messages from the party. NZME reportedly refused to broadcast any of the Free Palestine Party’s advertisements on its ZB radio network. NZME also refused
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw “New Zealand has spoken,” Labour leader Chris Hipkins said to the party faithful on election night, before adding: “It may take us a little bit longer to figure out exactly what it is that you’ve said.” There hasn’t been an MMP election quite (or even anything) like the one that played
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 —
By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says his government is being “hammered every day” by the media and critics, as he defended the repeal of the Media Industry Development Act (MIDA) and the restoration of media freedom. Speaking in Parliament last night, Rabuka said the repeal had restored a more enabling
RNZ Most of New Zealand’s North Island and the upper South Island is under a severe thunderstorm watch as voters head to the polls on election day. Overnight Friday, MetService recorded nearly 2000 lightning strikes throughout the top of the North Island, as well as heavy rainfall, with downpours reaching 33.5mm an hour in the
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
SPECIAL REPORT: By Abdel Qader Sabbah in Gaza City Al-Abd Abu Beid set a box of food rations down on a pile of stones he uses as a makeshift table outside his ramshackle tent on the coastline west of Gaza City. The cardboard box displayed the blue logo of the United Nations World Food Programme
COMMENTARY: By Paul Hopkinson Should small parties that don’t have a chance of getting over 5 percent, get government funding? That is the question I would have answered on The Platform with Michael Laws (before his repugnant statements about women candidates came to light), had Sean Plunket not banned me. That’s right, I received a