Week in Review: The NZ First leader shows there’s madness to his method, attempting to hog the limelight in the new Govt’s first week
Opinion
Posted inComment
New Government crashes environment
Comment: The coalition agreements contain many actions on the environment – most regressive and some that could take NZ back decades, writes environmentalist Gary Taylor
Posted inSustainable Future
COP28: As nations admit climate loss and damage, one industry still wins
Oil mogul ensures opening of UN climate summit avoids any talk of phasing out fossil fuels
Posted inOpinion
It’s ‘winner take all’ under MMP too
Governments govern and oppositions oppose, in the same way they did under First Past the Post
Posted inInfrastructure
The stadiums that could have been contenders
The media is being used to encourage politicians to accept as inevitable the idea of a waterfront stadium in Auckland, if not a specific plan
Posted inPolitics
Not much for Kiwi wallets in first 100 days
Christopher Luxon’s new 100-day plan of action has a lot of aspiration but not quite as much substance
Posted inMāori issues
Why Māori and Pacific quotas at medical school are essential
Act and National have committed to examine the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme at Auckland University. Even ‘reviewing’ the programme is hurtful and upsetting.
Posted inPolitics
The choices Ardernism made
The Sixth Labour government stands out among its peers. Is it for the right reasons? asks Joe Pagani.
Posted inOpinion
Coalition govt won’t deliver ‘national unity’ with these agreements
Reimagining our world as one where race has no relationship to what happens in our lives is doomed to fail
Posted inOpinion
Stark warning in creative misuse of Covid funds
Covid fund was put to some questionable uses in NZ, but in Germany the government has just been severely censured, writes Oliver Hartwich
Posted inPolitics
A distance-learning course in how to win friends and influence people
‘Settling some personal grievance claims, they remained hurt that I had no real empathy for their feelings’
Posted inTransport
Electric transport in 10 years: wireless charging on the move
A future of wireless EV charging is close, but there are challenges to overcome
