On Paula Bennett’s decidedly strange welfare panel
Last week when Social Development Minister Paula Bennett named the working group on welfare reform, she also cited in a footnote two experts that the […]
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On getting a fair deal for our oil and mining resources
As the deadline approaches for public submissions on the government’s plans to open up sensitive conservation areas to mining, the likely economic returns to New […]
Gordon Campbell On Welfare Insurance
The new working group on welfare reform to be headed by former Commerce Commission head Paula Rebstock will be looking at schemes of unemployment insurance […]
On New Zealand's Anti-Nuclear Posturing
Click for big version New Zealand’s national identity is very much based on our sense of virtuous purity – and the feeling that we can […]
On the Whanau Ora scheme
At the unveiling of Whanau Ora, the government scrapped a key feature that its expert Task Force had deemed to be ‘pivotal’ – namely, that […]
On the child abuse scandal within the Catholic Church
At the school I attended as a child, any and all queries by parents about the standard of teaching or the content of the syllabus […]
Do the Right Thing
Everywhere else, countries recognise the need to exempt food from GST
Hating Obama, Scorning Rudd
Why have they become so unpopular so quickly ?
Womad under pressure
Can the world music festival survive in its current format and location?
Loss Leader
Is Doug McKay really the leader that Auckland needs?
Classics: Harriet the Spy (1964) by Louise Fitzhugh
Looking out for number one
Left Coasting: Una casa dividida
Searching for common ground among California’s Latino/Chicano/Mexicano voters
Milestone Movies: The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Relationships still feel like this, 40 years on…
From the Hood: Boraxing poetical
Odes for the malodorous
The Complicatist: In praise of Alex Chilton (1950-2010)
I saw you staring into space
Travelling Light: Into the Ruined City
In Agdam, the past is the only thing present
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #5… by Leo Hupert
Newave ! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 9, MARCH 2009 * * * * *
The March Edition of Werewolf.
On the Iraq election, and the attacks on Andrew Williams
So Iyad Allawi’s secular Sunni coalition has won the most seats in the Iraqi elections. While the mainstream media from the New York Times to […]
On the missing-in-action Jackson film review, and the new benefit policy
I know Peter Jackson is a busy guy, but where oh where is his review of the New Zealand Film Commission? There was no hard […]
On the Government’s Greenlight to the Mining Industry
Click for big version Well, we learned yesterday that Forest and Bird leaks had been right all along, and that the government is indeed planning […]
On the Waihopai Three Verdict, and East Jerusalem
2008 Image: Ploughshares Penetrate Waihopai Base Deflate Dome The acquittal of the Waihopai Three for their attack on the Waihopai spy base is as welcome […]
On the Economics of Mining DOC Land
Click to enlarge At yesterday’s Post cabinet press conference [video], Prime Minister John Key repeated the government’s current defensive position on the proposal to extend […]
On the Wellywood sign (& Education Cuts)
As the Facebook critics of the Wellywood sign have pointed out, it is pretty hard to see the logic of promoting the creativity of the […]
On fresh evidence about the gender pay gap
An appropriate newsflash yesterday for International Women’s Day. After analyzing Inland Revenue data, the Women’s Ministry has found that women almost immediately begin to be […]
On Theresa Gattung’s attack on Telecom
One hates to kick someone when they’re down – but when it is former Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung and she is peddling a book in […]
On David Garrett’s sterilisation plan, and the divisions within Hamas
David Garrett’s bizarre suggestion that people who abuse children should be given a $5,000 incentive to get themselves sterilized is so crass that one hardly […]
Valuing The Young
The right’s ideological crusade to bring back youth rates
Settling For Less
Does the media distort our understanding of Treaty issues ?
Handwriting’s premature demise
Computers have not killed handwriting (yet)