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Labour party couldn’t ‘sell’ the tax in the last election but the policy won’t fade away as global concern over wealth inequality deepensLicking its wounds from October’s election defeat, the New Zealand Labour party faces an internal struggle over a q…
Read MoreCohousing offers a vision of connected, community-based living – but the path to realising the dream can be far from smooth “Welcome to the site of hope and heartbreak.”With these words Bronwen Newton greets visitors to a quarter-acre gravel carpark be…
Read MoreWeak regulations mean authorities have no idea how much money is channelled through the country by global fraudstersAlongside endangered birds, abnormally large sheep and – in the popular imagination – hairy-toed hobbits, New Zealand is a haven for ano…
Read MoreDisagreement is a sign of healthy democratic debate not of dysfunction – and hard-core conspiracists remain marginalThe occupation of New Zealand’s parliament was fractured from the outset: fascists vied for control with controversial pastors, conspira…
Read MoreWhen people are born into money it’s like they’ve stepped on an up escalator, borne effortlessly upwards while the poor go downIn the last few decades, an apparently ordinary financial institution has assumed an importance that could hardly have been f…
Read MoreThere is only one way to really make a change in New Zealand is to raise the bottom more rapidly than the middle “Today, we close a chapter on our past.” So said New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, on Thursday, as she launched a budget that inc…
Read MoreCovid has set back the PM’s modest progress on childhood hardship, meaning greater policy ambition is needed As the New Zealand First party’s vote share evaporated on election day, so too did Jacinda Ardern’s last excuse for not making more progress on…
Read MoreNew data shows the richest 1% are worth 68 times more than a typical New ZealanderThe extent of wealth inequality in supposedly egalitarian New Zealand has been laid bare by figures showing the wealthiest individuals have over NZ$140bn (US$93bn) stashe…
Read MoreNew revelations about party funding are a stain on the country’s reputation for transparencyComplacency can be a nation’s greatest foe.New Zealanders, buoyed by their country’s high ranking in global transparency measures, see little to learn from othe…
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