We spoke with Lisa Meto Fox about the announcement of an official Government apology for the Dawn Raids, the context and history of that, and the generational effects of the policy.
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Branko and Kyle speak with Olivier Jutel about the NZ National Party's swing into some hard bigotry and discuss the recent reappearance of the COVID-19 'lab leak' theory.
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In 1981, at the same time as Ronald Reagan, an anti-tax, far right celebrity won the Presidency, socialist Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington in the then conservative state of Vermont.
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We speak with Ti about the situation post-Waikeria protests and People Against Prisons Aotearoa’s Reconnection Fund. Justine then speaks with us about recent Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Palestinian human rights.
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1/200 and guest Paul Kelland talk NZ’s Budget21, the public service payfreeze, welfare, and everything else we could get to in Budget discourse.
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On May 29 2019, Aotearoa New Zealand’s entire education sector went out on a ‘mega-strike’, for the first time in history.
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We talk #payfreeze austerity from NZ Labour and incompetence from UK Labour before Branko interviews President of the Migrant Workers’ Association Anu Kaloti about migrant work and migrant rights in NZ.
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Kyle speaks with John and Reece about the NZ Rugby sale to Silver Lake and the failure of the European Super League pitch earlier in April.
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Kyle, Branko and Justine cover some of the week’s politics before talking with President of the NZ Council of Trade Unions, Richard Wagstaff, about workers rights in Wellington following strike action and an indefinite lockout of NZ Bus workers by their employer.
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In October’s 2020 state election, the Queensland Green Party won its second seat, as Amy McMahon beat Labour Deputy Premier Jackie Trad.
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Branko & Philip ask Matt McCarten about his new Union venture, political strategy & his history in New Zealand politics.
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Part 2 of Blueprints’ discussion of Chlöe Swarbrick’s Auckland Central campaign.
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Justine & Philip speak to Dr Josephine Varghese (@Doc_Jojo_) about capitalist & neocolonial power dynamics in the Peoples Vaccine & Indian border conversations.
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In October’s 2020 general election, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand won only its second ever electorate seat. Swarbrick overturned an 18 point polling deficit and her field campaign was one of the biggest in the country’s history.
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We speak with Geordie Rogers, spokesperson for Renters United about the Government's recent "changes" to NZ's housing market, and the ways that renters have been left behind by successive governments.
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New Zealand’s model of decriminalised sex work has been studied the world over. With their limited resources, their campaign was tightly focused on parliament with a clear focus on a narrative strategy.
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Philip, Branko and Justine talk with Jonah Walters about his dissertation on Nicaragua as well as discussing recent Brazil and Bolivia news.
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Union organiser and podcast co-producer Simon Oosterman, who ran this 2005 campaign, talks about how they used a dispute with fast food giant Restaurant Brands as a lever to bring the issue of low pay into the national conversation
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