Tag: Social justice
K Road Chronicles – looking at NZ’s homelessness from the inside
K Road Chronicles video produced by Stuff with NZ On Air.
By RNZ's The Weekend with Karyn Hay
The K Road Chronicles is a New Zealand webseries...
The Great Divider: Covid-19 reflects global racism, not equality
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud
The notion that the covid-19 pandemic was "the great equalizer' should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal...
With a mandate to govern NZ alone, Labour must now decide...
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...
Greens sweep 10 seats in huge NZ win for climate crisis,...
By RNZ News
The Green Party say voters have given a strong signal they are valued in the New Zealand government, and they have ambitions...
Ziena Jalil: Why ticking the diversity boxes keeps missing the mark
COMMENT: By Ziena Jalil
Diversity was in the spotlight last week. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori and Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori were embraced...
Bryan Bruce: The fog of economic policy is starting to clear
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...
Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
I live in Auckland. Last night while driving home around 8pm I passed a small roadside car park with about 10...
Teuila Fuatai: Vitriol harms Pasifika as much as the covid pandemic
COMMENT: By Teuila Fuatai
South Auckland and its communities, specifically Pasifika, are at the centre of New Zealand's current covid-19 cluster.
As a result, media coverage,...
Fiji government urged to reconsider NZ$5.3 million office for PM
By RNZ Pacific
Plans for spending NZ$5.3 on construction of the Fiji Prime Minister's new office should be diverted to people affected by the covid-19...
Has the new world order failed? UN calls for new global...
Not everyone is in the same boat! Video: Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres argues that inequality starts at the top...
Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal...
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...
Bryan Bruce: Judith Collins selection last throw of the dice to...
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...
The National: Let’s play our part to end gender violence in...
The National editorial
Hundreds walked the Sir John Guise drive on Thursday calling for justice for the brutal death of 19-year-old mother-of-two – Jenelyn Kennedy...
Many in black rally for Jenelyn and against PNG gender-based violence
Athletes from the Papua New Guinea’s national team joined the peaceful "cry for justice" march in the nation's capital of Port Moresby. Video: EMTV...
Bryan Bruce: Why I have run out of words – and...
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...
James Tapp: Confronting Pākehā Privilege as a white male student
COMMENT: By James Tapp
It's only been a year and half since I started university, but sometimes that's enough time to realise more about the...
Sue Bradford: Labour betrays its traditions – and most vulnerable –...
COMMENT: By Sue Bradford for Pundit and RNZ News
In the age of covid-19 we are Jacinda's team of five million, except for some.
There has rarely...
Lockdown social cohesion likely to fall as ‘acute’ phase ends, say...
By RNZ News
The sense of national unity felt during the Covid-19 lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report...
Scott Waide: My message to PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape
COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide in Lae
As the new Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, you have your work cut out for you. You have...
Crisis? What crisis? A new PNG prime minister might not signal...
BACKGROUND: By Jonathan Ritchie of Deakin University
In recent days, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has announced his resignation, failed to formally resign,...
Media freedom in Pacific a growing challenge, says journalism academic
By Blessen Tom
Pacific media freedom and ignorance of Pacific issues by mainstream media in New Zealand are growing challenges for the region, says a...
Housing trust chief slams ‘short cuts’ approach to NZ homes crisis
By Rahul Bhattarai
A housing trust chief executive has condemned the government for taking “short cuts” to tackle New Zealand’s housing crisis.
“We need to stop...