Tag: New Zealand
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...
NZ’s housing market drives inequality – why not just tax houses like any other income?
ANALYSIS: By Susan St John
The Green Party made waves recently when it proposed to tax net wealth more than NZ$2 million for individuals and...
Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist
By Rachael Nath
Securing a nuclear-free region has been a long battle for the Pacific.
After the Second World War, the United States, along with its...