A while back, I blogged about how boycotting sweatshop labour can improve the working conditions of the people in the sweatshops. Another problem with the Government’s free-trade-at-all-costs agenda is that the benefits of the agreements they’re negotiating just aren’t eventuating.
Rather than opening up markets for our exporters to sell goods, they’re actually causing New […]
Well, it seems that the New Zealand people don’t know what’s good for them. The crazy, politically correct, busybody government has foisted a smoking ban on them, and what do ordinary Kiwis do? Do they stand up for their human rights, say “enough is enough”, and reclaim the bars for the silent majority of New […]
So, Green Room 004: Hope, a CD featuring a track by Nandor, was released this morning. It’s the final in a four-CD series aimed at raising awareness of social and environmental issues.
In 2002, Nandor’s first foray into music-as-politics was seen as novel. In 2003, Metiria’s words led to nervous giggles and raised eyebrows.
This […]
So, our prison population has reached 7,000 for the first time, and New Zealand now has the dubious honour of locking up a greater proportion of its people than any other developed country bar the United States. Well, way to go guys.
So, what have the major parties got to say about this? Well, Paul Swain […]
David Young and Ben Thomas, of Dog Biting Men fame, have their first politics column in the NBR today.
It’s about blogging by political parties. Noticing that only Act and the Greens have taken to blogging, Young and Thomas note a difference between these two parties’ blogs which I think accurately describes the difference between […]