Tag: New Zealand
Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more progressive path?
ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards
Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told The Spinoff he’s reading The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax...
Oppenheimer’s warning lives on: global laws, treaties fail to stop new arms race
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie
J. Robert Oppenheimer — the great nuclear physicist, “father of the atomic bomb”, and now subject of a blockbuster biopic —...
Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
RNZ Mediawatch
Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on...
Martyn Bradbury: A sorrowful day for my beautiful city – Matu Tangi Matua Reid’s unspeakable violence
By Martyn Bradbury
My daughter came into the kitchen early today to tell me her friends were downtown in Auckland at Britomart, the transit hub...
Iconic peace researcher Owen Wilkes exposed global covert military activity and inspired NZ’s nuclear-free status
REVIEW: By Ken Mansell
The recent publication of a book of essays honouring the life of legendary New Zealand peace researcher and activist Owen Wilkes...
Jakarta’s rights commission criticised for ‘failure’ over NZ pilot hostage case
By Singgih Wiryono in Jakarta
Indonesia’s former National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik says it is difficult to expect Komnas HAM...