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Opinion: A new study, involving some of those who saved the land at Ihumātao, aims to change the way indigenous rights progress in constitutional relationships.
Newsroom
Masterclass 8: It is time to expand on a successful ‘by community, for community’ approach to dealing with the pandemic.
Stuff
Don't expect the world to get back to normal now that we have all decided to live with the virus.
RNZ
New Zealanders questioned in a government-commissioned survey reported feeling worn down by lockdown, sad and worried about the impacts of Covid-19.
Newsroom
Review criticised for avoiding a detailed comparison between the wage subsidy and overseas schemes. @ddub_news reports
RNZ
Do we really need to be saving $809,000 per couple to retire comfortably?
RNZ
Yesterday's rise in the official cash rate is being described as a kick in the guts for first home buyers.
For the third time in as many years, the government is investigating a big sector of the economy for being too expensive.
The Standard
Two days before what is claimed will be the mother of all protests links between the Groundswell organisation and the Taxpayers Union have been discovered.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Never Let Go: If the violent prejudices of the Jim Crow South, echoing through contemporary struggles, teach us anything, it is that the def...
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Dangerous Visionaries: Rex Connor wanted to “buy back the farm” (i.e. nationalise Australia ’s mineral wealth) and ended up bringing down ...
The Conversation
Nearly a year ago, New Zealand’s intelligence services warned of the ‘realistic possibility’ of future COVID-related violent extremism. How concerned should people be now?
The Spinoff
Aotearoa’s politicians, politics obsessives and journalists all use Twitter heaps, but does the platform matter as much as it feels like it matters? Shanti Mathias reports for IRL. “It is a very small, boisterous family, who get together ... at the Christmas dinner table and have some arguments
Newsroom
Behind the headlines about housing intensification in the bigger cities, all-time low birth rates and immigration create a very different infrastructure problem for many regions.
Stuff
OPINION: Some commentators have been fretting about inflation for a long time. Thanks to Covid-19, they might finally be right.
Newsroom
As it prepares to close one of the country's biggest gas power plants, the power company says NZ must make more strategic decisions about which high-emitting thermal plants to close, and when.
Newsroom
Dame Anne Salmond looks back to calamities 100 years ago, and their solutions, as a guide to what our leadership must do now on the big issues of Covid and climate
Newsroom
Orion Health and Porirua City Council top those asked to give back taxpayer money. @ddub_news reports
Newsroom
Five years ago today, Ward copped the brunt of the Kaikōura earthquake. Tracy Neal looks at how the Marlborough settlement is using what happened to save itself from oblivion.
Democracy Project
For those on the left and also distrustful of authority, how do we deal with the rising protests against Covid measures? Branko Marcetic has studied the dynamics of what’s going on in numerous countries and says we’ve got a number of important lessons to learn to combat worrying developments.
Stuff
OPINION: Dictators take whole families and slaughter them for wearing the wrong hat on a Tuesday. The term dictator is not a word to be bandied about just because you don't like your Prime Minister.
The Spinoff
Colin James has now covered NZ elections across seven decades. Here, he assesses Labour's latest win within that context, in one of a series of extracts from the new VUP collection Politics in a Pandemic. The 1969 election, the first of 16 I covered as a journalist, came at the "beginning of the
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
We Shall Come: Who are these people? The brutally straightforward answer is that they are the people for whom no room can be found on the b...
The Spinoff
The lazy explanation is that the party simply profited from a series of National Party disasters. The truth is more complex and more interesting, writes David Seymour in the latest in a series of extracts from the new VUP collection Politics in a Pandemic. After sinking to the worst result in its
Newsroom
Jacinda sipped blood on her 'flit' to Auckland and a selection of Bravehearts came together with their nonsensical signs. This week was a bad sequel to an American movie - featuring Barry Soper.
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