Everyone is talking about the cost of living crisis. Inflation in the first quarter of 2022 was 6.9%, up from 5.9% in the last quarter of 2021 — the highest level we have seen since 1990. The price of food, rent and, in particular, fuel is going through the roof….
“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…
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 some chance…
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….
The following is a speech presented by Elliot Crossan to the 2018 Green Party Summer Policy Conference. Sources and recommended readings are below. Kia ora koutou, and thank you to the policy committee for allowing me this chance to speak. I am going to argue today that the ability of…
4 February 2016 was the day I learnt what the power of ordinary people felt like. I marched with 30,000 others in the streets of Auckland against the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, and I could feel the raw anger of a mass movement, whose years of resistance towards the National…
