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Showing posts with label NZ Left. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NZ Left. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Derek Mackie: Alone NZ - In the Political Wilderness


Some of you may have watched a TV reality programme called Alone, or its down-under spinoff Alone Australia. 
The aim of the game is to survive on your own in the middle of nowhere, with only a few possessions, for as long as it takes, outlasting the other competitors to win the “life-changing” prize money. You must make a shelter, collect and purify all your drinking water, and trap or hunt your food. 

The participants have to film themselves enduring the privations of the great outdoors, exposing both their strengths and weaknesses, mental and physical. And, in a few cases, an over-inflated belief in their own abilities and the supposed benefit of having a spiritual connection to first nation ancestors up in the heavens who will guide them through. 

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Chris Trotter: Opting Out Of The Coalition Of Containment.


Right now, New Zealand is in a very awkward geopolitical position. Heedless of its vital economic relationship with China, the United States and its allies in the Indo-Pacific region are pushing New Zealand into a growing coalition of containment aimed at weakening the Chinese state and economy.