AGAINST THE CURRENT: election 2023

Showing posts with label election 2023. Show all posts

DEMOCRACY: CHANGING THE SEATING ARRANGEMENTS IN PARLIAMENT

Despite the clai ms from our political elite and their cheerleaders that we live in a democracy, why do we still end up with governments th...

All signs are indicating that the final turnout in the 2023 general election could be the lowest in New Zealand electoral history. It sugges...

New Zealand scientists have warned that Antarctica's sea ice is rapidly disappearing and have criticised New Zealand's inadequate ...

Despite loyally supporting a right-wing Labour Government for the past six years, the Green's want the electorate to believe that they h...

Young New Zealanders were absent from TVNZ's 'Young Voters Debate'... THERE WAS an absence of young voters on TVNZ's 'Yo...

The hollowing out of our representative democracy means that political leaders like Chris Hipkins and Chris Luxon can only scrape together l...

After four decades of relentless neoliberalism that has benefited a few at the expense of the many, the public mood is for change. But that...

Climate change is the defining crisis of our age, but it does not even rate a mention on Labour's pledge card. Meanwhile, the National P...

The Labour Party has sunk to 26 percent support in the latest Roy Morgan poll. But the poll also shows that support for the two major partie...

John Minto rejects the politics and polices of the Labour Party and the Green's but he still wants to see Labour re-elected. He's pu...