Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012

Unions must keep on fighting! The Ports of Auckland dispute has hit the media like a wildfire, with ideological differences underpinning all coverage of the dispute. The issue is both complicated and serious. If the port wins, it will be a significant blow to the union movement in New Zealand Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012

New Zealand likes to mythologise itself “100% green”. A similar myth is that the country is tolerant and open to migrants. You may remember last year a boat of Sri Lankan migrants “threatened” to make it to our picturesque coasts. “Luckily” it didn’t. John Key used rhetoric that implied they would Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012

Get red-y for a piece of advice: Do not trust the government. Not just John Key’s, don’t trust Labour either. Currently in court four “terrorists” are being tried for being the supposed ringleaders of a group planning war against the police and government. The case goes back to 2007, when 300 Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 2

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012

Every now and then, at the entrance to the hospital, one can still be harassed by people wearing anti-abortion sandwich boards adorned with gory photos. Funnily enough, most of these ‘protesters’ are men. Abortion debates in New Zealand are nothing compared to those in the US or other deeply Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed

Posted 3:22pm Friday 24th February 2012

While freshers are still hiding behind their maps, the scarfie lifestyle is yet again being frowned upon by the DCC. This problem isn’t new – they have wanted to impose a liquor ban in North D since 2006. They want to drop the last drip of our SoGos; probably cause they haven’t been invited to a Read more...