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  • Rising prices and privatisation: the need for people’s power

    Ian Anderson Rising power prices have made headlines in recent weeks, with hikes of up to 10% beginning on April Fool’s Day. These increases hit low-income workers the hardest, with prices rising 48% for domestic users between 2000 and 2010 – compared to only 9% for commercial users. Power prices are also topical due to Read more

  • ANZAC Day: What are we celebrating?

    This article by Alastair Reith was originally published here in 2008. Every year we are told that the young men whose lives were snuffed out at Gallipoli died gloriously for our freedom. We are told that the “liberties” we supposedly enjoy in New Zealand today exist only because of the sacrifice of these soldiers. The Read more

  • Seasonal exploitation by Kiwi capitalists

    Yesterday marked 5 years of Vanuatu’s participation in the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme. The RSE scheme allows New Zealand employers in the horticulture and viticulture industries to bring in labour from the Pacific to fill seasonal jobs. Vanuatu is one of the biggest contributer countries to the scheme and RSE income is now the Melanesian Read more

  • Queer The Night 2012

    Everyone ready to Queer the Night? The 18th of May is pink shirt day and we thought what better than for the Queer Avengers to raise awareness of queer bullying in our schools than to Queer up the Night again. We’ve lost a number of people in our community this year due to homophobic or Read more

  • Tonga’s new king: where next for the democracy movement?

    Byron Clark Following the death of Tonga’s King Tupou V, his younger brother, Tupouto’a Lavaka, now known as Tupou VI, has been crowned king. Lavaka, considered to be more conservative than his brother, served as the country’s Prime Minister until his resignation in February 2006. While he gave no reason for his resignation, its generally Read more

  • Police brutality at Glen Innes

    Glen Innes residents, Marion Peka and Aroha Robson, report on police brutality at a recent protest. Residents of Glen Innes, and a coalition of other groups, have been resisting the demolition and gentrification of their community. Read more