“The statement..suggests NZ is already embracing the prospect of engagement with Aukus - without the public knowing what it involves & without Cabinet having agreed to it. ..with Labour..sounding alarm bells about getting involved..a largely bipartisan approach is under threat.”

Excellent work from teanau tuiono. I still have not heard a good explanation for why the National Party voted against this long overdue, well-justified move to address what is widely accepted as an injustice.

“Emma Shortis, a senior researcher in international and security affairs at the Australia Institute, told SBS News that there is 'a deliberate effort' by the political sphere to minimise the connection between pillar one and pillar two of the AUKUS agreement.
'There's this effort…

🔥🤔📣🚨APLS will be back end november 2024, this time in nipaluna/hobart on 'Legal entanglements between state and capital in a warming world'. Abstracts due 1 july. plz share very widely, comrades of all kinds very welcome: forms.gle/9Nbn9LzveFL8fe…

The context to the case — which, quite frankly, brought tears to my eyes when it was repeated in Court (from the HRRT decision):

‘If we want to halt the shift towards being an individualistic, competitive society – where profit is the overriding goal, markets govern, and money’s the main marker of success – we need to hold onto spaces and assets not driven by profit.’

I wrote about the far right’s uses of decolonial discourse for Sidecar: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

'Enough time has passed to learn the lessons of the 1980s and 1990s. The privatisations of that period made us poorer, not more prosperous. Let’s not make the same mistakes again.'