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Can Labour Really Govern For All?
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By Elliot Crossan
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2 years ago
“We will be a party that governs for every New Zealander!” This was Jacinda Ardern’s triumphant declaration on the night she was reelected Prime Minister, with a landslide so huge that she has become New Zealand’s first leader to win an outright majority under our proportional representation system, whilst Labour…
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Do Labour Deserve a Second Term — and Will They Finally Deliver?
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By Elliot Crossan
Date
2 years ago
Jacinda Ardern is headed for a landslide victory in the 2020 New Zealand general election. The Labour Party are currently polling around 47-50% — down from the stratospheric high of 60.9% seen in July, but still on course for easily their best election result since 1987, and still in with…
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Teachers Strike Against Government’s Self-Imposed Austerity
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By Elliot Crossan
Date
3 years ago
Aotearoa’s education system is in crisis. A perfect storm of underfunding, understaffing, low pay and long hours is causing people to leave the teaching profession in droves. This exodus is demonstrated in two alarming facts: one, that between 2010 and 2016, there was a 40% drop in student teachers; two,…
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After the Attack: Building a Lasting Movement Against Racism
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By Elliot Crossan
Date
3 years ago
The morning of March 15 was incredible. Thousands of young people were on strike from school, marching in the streets of Aotearoa, demanding action on climate change; demanding a better future. For many of them, it was their first ever experience of politics, and their first ever feeling of people…
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Long Past Time For Climate Justice
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By Elliot Crossan
Date
3 years ago
Runaway climate change is the greatest crisis of the 21st Century. It has been inspiring in the past few months to see new movements forming to take a stand for our planet — especially young people, as our generation have by far the most to lose from this fast-approaching disaster….
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Taxing the Richardson Will Not Be Enough
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By Elliot Crossan
Date
3 years ago
A shrill screeching sound has been echoing around Aotearoa in the last couple of weeks. From Cape Reinga to Stewart Island, the deafening screams of the rich — terrified at the idea that they might have to pay a little more tax — have been reverberating across the country, reaching…