New Zealand Business Demography Statistics: At February 2023

Binoy Kampmark: The Fall Of An Indigenous Referendum

The sinking of the Yes measure need not kill off the program for improving and ameliorating the condition of First Nations people in Australia, but for those seeking a triumphant Yes vote, the lesson was always threatening - no measure will ever pass the hurdle of the double majority in a majority of states if it does not have near uniform approval from the outset. It never has. More

Ramzy Baroud: The Palestinian Cause Belongs To The World

At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media is now telling us it is a ‘Hamas-Israeli conflict.’ But what went wrong? Israel simply became too powerful. More

Binoy Kampmark: Images From The Israel-Hamas War

With the body count rising, the narrative of Israel the wounded, Israel the desperate, has been annexed to Israel the Just Warrior State, fighting darkness and primaeval stone age barbarism. This has taken two forms. The first is the way the victims of the Hamas attacks inside Israeli territory have been elevated, ennobled, & sanctified. The second is the manner with which the Hamas killings have been rendered exceptionally ghoulish, visceral, & blood curdling. More

Ian Powell: Will Tennessee Threaten NZ's Medical Workforce?

Our medical workforce crisis is primarily driven by uncompetitive remuneration. There is a massive over 60% specialist pay gap with Australia. Not only do we lose specialists (and doctors training to be specialists) across the Tasman, but we also can’t compete with Australia to recruit specialists from other countries. This pay gap is the greatest obstacle to addressing the specialist workforce shortages in our public hospitals. More

Hemp Foundation: The Crimes Of Medicine?

Australasian food regulator FSAN saw no reason to deny the public cannabinoid rich hemp foods in 2016, due to their safety and public benefit, and MedSafes own internal advice said they were legal. Aus/NZ ministers of health still wanted them kept from the public & MedSafe may have lied to achieve that. MedSafe, however, refuses to release the advice, citing "lack of public interest." More

Vijay Prashad: The Savagery Of The War Against The Palestinian People

Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the time this report is published? Among the bodies that cannot be taken to a hospital or a morgue, because there will be no petrol or electricity, will be large numbers of children. They will have hidden in their homes, listening to the sound of the Israeli F-16 bombers coming closer and closer, the explosions advancing toward them like a swarm of red ants on the chase. More