Tag: New Zealand
NZ’s Western Bay of Plenty councillors vote for Māori wards – ‘a momentous day’
By Alisha Evans
After a 12-year fight, mana whenua will get a seat at the table after the Western Bay of Plenty District Council has...
Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public is timely
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie
The release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) this week is the final piece in...
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...