Tag: neoliberalism

POLITICAL BYTES: By Ian Powell There is a reported apparent rift within cabinet between Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Defence Minister Andrew Little over Aotearoa...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury Last month The Daily Blog offered its New Year infamous news media gongs -- and blasts -- for 2022. In this...

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney Since the attacks on the United States by 15 Saudi Arabian Islamic fanatics on 11 September  2001 -- now...

ANALYSIS: By Chris Trotter There is something decidedly sinister about the way the right-wing media is pursuing the “elimination strategy is madness” argument so doggedly....

COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce You can't get the right answer if you keep asking the wrong question. A question this neoliberal New Zealand government and previous...

COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce Today is Labour Day in New Zealand - the public holiday set aside to celebrate the rights of workers and in...

ANALYSIS: By David Hall, Auckland University of Technology A pandemic can change the foundations of a society. But if this happens in New Zealand over...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw, Massey University; Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury; Jack Vowles, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Jennifer Curtin, and...

ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce National’s economic policy of temporary tax cuts for next month's New Zealand general election yesterday proved - if proof be needed...

COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce Let me start by putting my education cards on the table. I think public money should fund public schools. If you...

Linguist and author Noam Chomsky says decades of neoliberal policies that shredded the social safety net and public institutions have left the country ill-prepared...

ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce in the first of a series What is the purpose of an economy? I realised this morning that it is 7 years...

ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce The selection of Judith Collins by her colleagues as the new leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party is a last...

From RNZ Saturday Morning Described by a Guardian reviewer as "superb hate-reading", writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas's latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade...

COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce Every time I wrote a sentence to describe the slow motion collision of social, economic and political forces that are simultaneously...

By RNZ News Many people have revelled in a return to a simpler life in recent weeks. While lockdown restrictions are eased in many...

ANALYSIS: By Catherine Rottenberg A few days ago, I received a message from my son's secondary school announcing that it would be celebrating International Women's...

OPINION: By Murray Horton, of the Aotearoa Independence Movement Jacinda Ardern, we have some suggestions for when you go as New Zealand's incoming Prime Minister...

OPINION: By Frank Macskasy Winston Peters has called it: NZ First is going into coalition with Labour-Greens. In reality, it was the only decision he...

OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog In 2014, New Zealanders shrugged off dirty politics and mass surveillance lies and then voted National...

By Mackenzie Smith in Auckland Academics have warned a merger of NZME and Fairfax will spell disaster for the media ecosystem at a conference on...

The dominance of ‘econobabble’ and market approaches have hurt climate action. That’s why renewable energy is vital to the future of the climate and the economy, write Dan...