Thursday, 12 February 2015

Questions Of Sovereignty: Who Has The Final Say In New Zealand? – And Should We Be Frightened Of Finding Out?

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Day 506: On 25 May 1978 a massive Police operation, backed by the NZ Army, evicted 218 protesters from their occupation village on Bast...
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Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Good Samaritans?

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Our Way: Norman Kirk farewells the HMNZS Otago as it sets sail for Mururoa Atoll in June 1973. His invocation of the parable of the Goo...
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Gone With The Nuclear Wind?

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Tomorrow Might Not Be Another Day: The poster which swept the pre-Internet world in the anti-nuclear 80s. Those born in the post-Cold W...
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Friday, 6 February 2015

Fast Forward: What Will New Zealand Look Like In 2040?

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Conflicting Expectations: On the day the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, Maori enjoyed complete cultural, economic and military hegemony ...
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Thursday, 5 February 2015

Firing Tony Abbott: Whose Job Is It To Make Or Break Australia’s Prime Minister?

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"Awh, Come On, Cobbers - Give Us A Fair Old Suck Of The Sav!"   Tony Abbott’s assertion that he is the government and the gove...
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Eleanor Catton And The Sociocultural Logic Of Kiwi Neoliberalism.

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Brains, Beauty and Balls: Eleanor Catton's uncompromising assault on New Zealand's neoliberal regime pushed all of the Right...
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Tuesday, 3 February 2015

The Electorate Strikes Back.

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Not A Happy Chappy: Queensland's Premier no longer, the Liberal National Party leader, Campbell Newman, is forced to acknowledge th...
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