Mini-Conference at St Andrews on the Terrace – Conference Friday 9 /Saturday 10 October Save the date for a fascinating, involving conference and workshop. You can book and pay for the conference using Eventbrite registration Satrs conference intro leaflet to print for friends See the final list of confirmed speakers At last year’s conference Democracy, […]
The Death of God and the War on Terror
Link to the video Summary This article attempts to give a flavour of a videoed talk by Terry Eagleton “The Death of God and the War on Terror” which was made at the How the Light Gets In festival in Wales in May this year and which is taken from ideas in his 2014 book […]
Naomi Klein on not looking.
Larger PDF version of How we look away from climate change diagram Here is a model of what Klein identifies as the reasons we use for not looking at climate change in her recent book “This changes everything”
TPPA progress harder from now on
Updated 4/8/2015 With the failure of the Hawaii TPPA round to make a deal, the next round of TPPA negotiations is going to be more difficult, as well as more risky for the government. Internationally the Canadian government has been dissolved pending an election in October and all TPPA governments are managing widespread public concerns. […]
Form follows function for the Cooperative Bank
Printable version Last Thursday at its AGM the NZ Co-operative Bank invited shareholders to adopt a new by constitution formalising the bank’s profit sharing arrangements, New Zealand ownership and representation arrangements. The changes have unfolded over several years. To 2012 and under the leadership of Girol Karacaoglu, (who has since moved to become chief economist […]
The ‘Free Trade’ horse is already bolting on residential property sales
On Tuesday David Parker wrote in the NZ Herald that the government’s signing of the S. Korea Free Trade Agreement creates risks for NZ. Today the Labour Party has withheld support until certain guarantees are made. However the specific risk of losing the right to legislate for New Zealanders is already in chain in residential […]
TPP opposition widespread across all of NZ society
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) if it is finalised will be signed and ratified by the Cabinet. Professor Jane Kelsey has shown that the Parliamentary Select Committee process is cosmetic. Much like the South Korea FTA, recently under discussion by the Foreign Affairs and Trade Select Committee, there will be no vote in parliament […]
Another world is possible. The Labour History Project’s 2015 Essay competition
The Labour History Project launched an essay competition last year. The competition is running again in 2015 and entries close on Tuesday 2 June. See the attached flyer for details about the competition, closing date and prizes. The topic is ‘Another world is possible’ and you can read the 2014 prize winning essays here. The […]
Rules reduction review: – An extraordinary attack on local government.
Duncan Garner recently wrote a story about an aggrieved property developer. The anonymous man, is apparently “scared” of council retribution if his details were published. Garner criticises the council the developer was dealing with but is mysteriously silent on details that would allow us to understand why the developer was building on a plot covered […]
On not reporting on greenhouse gas emissions
The government has made a decision not to report on New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions as part of the package of statistical environmental reporting for the period starting 2015. The new reporting regime was announced today by the Chief Executives of Stats NZ and the Ministry for the Environment respectively, having been vetted by the […]
Why Scoop is crucial to New Zealand’s democracy
I’ve supported Scoop’s crowd funding. Can you spare some cash to support Scoop as well? With almost completely foreign ownership of our newspapers, the loss of TVNZ7 and Heartland TV and the loss of nationwide broadcasting for Triangle TV in the last few years and Radio NZ having suffered 7 years of fixed budgets our […]
World leading research moves off shore because of TICSA
This month six of NZ’s universities are submitting their final bids for a share in the 2014 budget’s $28M of new funds for ICT graduate schools. According to Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce this initiative will connect tertiary education and industry to deliver more of the ICT skills New Zealand needs by lifting the training […]
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