In 2016, Aotearoa New Zealand’s parliament passed a law banning the use of Zero Hours Contracts. In the preceding two years, Unite the Union had forced fast-food companies to stop using them in their contracts. The campaign was the culmination of their organising which started in the Supersize My Pay campaign from 2003. The campaign was an excellent example of having an industrial strategy as a lever for a political strategy. By having a concrete focus - trying to stop fast-food companies from u...
Jul 23, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
We talk with Byron Clark about the groups involved with last week’s “Farmers’” protests organised by Groundswell NZ. Justine , James and I pitch in with our thoughts about media framing and rural v urban narratives and realities. Remember to subscribe, 5 star and share with your friends if you’ve enjoyed the episode!...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 108
We speak with Ross and Mikey about Mental Health Services in NZ, Government rhetoric and systemic issues over the preceding decades. If you found this useful please give us a 5 star rating and share with other people you think will find it useful. You can find more of our content on our website and support us on Patreon...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 107
On this day 35 years ago, July 9, the homosexual law reform bill passed it’s third reading and sex between men was finally decriminalised. The campaign polarised New Zealand to levels not seen since the Springbok Tour in 1981, as a vicious anti-campaign took hold, driven by fundamentalist churches. The campaign mobilised support from a broad range of organisations, as gay men, lesbians and others tried to keep their coalition together, in the face of different objectives internally and ferocious...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 1
We speak with David Slack about alternate media platforms like Substack, the inertia of current established media, and the challenges for independent journalists and content creators. If you enjoyed this episode please give us those stars/likes and consider popping over to our Patreon to become a subscriber.
Jul 07, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 106
We talk with Joel about electoral politics, party systems and the possibilities for left-wing electoralism.
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 105
We spoke with Lisa Meto Fox about the announcement of an official Government apology for the Dawn Raids, the context and history of that, and the generational effects of the policy. Newsroom article by Dylan Asafo Twitter Thread from Lisa about some recent developments with an article attached If you’ve enjoyed this podcast share it with your friends and family, and give us a follow and thumbs up on your podcast app....
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 104
We have Ross and Justine on the cast to talk about the proliferation of transphobic views in NZ including within our electoral politics. In the second half we discuss the recent strike action by health workers and the sorry state of our health infrastructure. Ross’s medium post about trans people “just wanting to get on with their day” NZNO petition for Fair Pay and Safe Staffing...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Branko and Kyle speak with Olivier Jutel about the NZ National Party's swing into some hard bigotry and discuss the recent reappearance of the COVID-19 'lab leak' theory. Music by Prophet Motive If you’ve enjoyed the episode please give us a 5 star rating and share with a friend!...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 102
In 1981, at the same time as Ronald Reagan, an anti-tax, far right celebrity won the Presidency, socialist Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington in the then conservative state of Vermont. The campaign around him stunned everyone, and won by just 10 votes. It was the start of a political revolution in Vermont, and the strategy for how they won and then governed would, against all the odds, win them a clear majority in the 1983 re-election. We spoke with staff writer at Jacobin and 1...
Jun 03, 2021•44 min
We speak with Ti about the situation post-Waikeria protests and People Against Prisons Aotearoa ’s Reconnection Fund. Justine then speaks with us about recent Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Palestinian human rights. Reconnect Fund found here Music by Prophet Motive If you’ve enjoyed the episode please give us a 5 star rating and share with a friend!...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 101
1/200 and guest Paul Kelland talk NZ’s Budget21, the public service payfreeze, welfare, and everything else we could get to in Budget discourse
May 25, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 100
On May 29 2019, Aotearoa New Zealand’s entire education sector went out on a ‘mega-strike’, for the first time in history. During 10 years of the National Government the education sector was in crisis. NZEI Te Riu Roa, the primary teachers union, had steadily grown its capacity to campaign when teachers resisted some of the worst reforms imposed on them. By 2019 the profession was united around a strategy of deep member engagement, escalation and a clear narrative, ‘It’s Time’. We spoke with NZE...
May 13, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 6
We talk #payfreeze austerity from NZ Labour and incompetence from UK Labour before Branko interviews President of the Migrant Workers’ Association Anu Kaloti about migrant work and migrant rights in NZ.
May 12, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Kyle speaks with John and Reece about the NZ Rugby sale to Silver Lake and the failure of the European Super League pitch earlier in April.
May 05, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Kyle, Branko and Justine cover some of the week’s politics before talking with President of the NZ Council of Trade Unions, Richard Wagstaff, about workers rights in Wellington following strike action and an indefinite lockout of NZ Bus workers by their employer.
Apr 27, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 97
In October’s 2020 state election, the Queensland Green Party won its second seat, as Amy McMahon beat Labour Deputy Premier Jackie Trad. Part of a long term plan to hold the balance of power in the state parliament, the Greens have been patiently building since Johnathan Sri’s 2016 win in a local council ward. Running a left populist narrative, with a more explicit class politics than their New Zealand counterparts, they’re building a political movement to transform their state. Find out how the...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Branko & Philip ask Matt McCarten about his new Union venture, political strategy & his history in New Zealand politics. Find out more about Matt’s work at https://www.utu.org.nz/
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 96
In October’s 2020 general election, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand won only its second ever electorate seat. Swarbrick overturned an 18 point polling deficit and her field campaign was one of the biggest in the country’s history. The campaign had a clear narrative that overcame accusations of vote-splitting and focused on building a community which ended up mobilising 400 volunteers. We spoke with Campaign Manager Leroy Beckett, Field Organiser Niko Elsen and Chlöe Swarbrick MP, about h...
Apr 15, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Justine & Philip speak to Dr Josephine Varghese ( @Doc_Jojo_ ) about capitalist & neocolonial power dynamics in the Peoples Vaccine & Indian border conversations.
Apr 14, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 95
In October’s 2020 general election, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand won only its second ever electorate seat. Swarbrick overturned an 18 point polling deficit and her field campaign was one of the biggest in the country’s history. The campaign had a clear narrative that overcame accusations of vote-splitting and focused on building a community which ended up mobilising 400 volunteers. We spoke with Campaign Manager Leroy Beckett, Field Organiser Niko Elsen and Chlöe Swarbrick MP, about h...
Apr 08, 2021•Season 1Ep. 3
We speak with Geordie Rogers, spokesperson for Renters United about the Government's recent "changes" to NZ's housing market, and the ways that renters have been left behind by successive governments.
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 94
New Zealand’s model of decriminalised sex work has been studied the world over. With their limited resources, their campaign was tightly focused on parliament with a clear focus on a narrative strategy. Across an 11 year period, they wrote and then lobbied for the Prostitution Reform Act which decriminalised their industry and passed by just 1 vote. We spoke with the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective co-founder Dame Catherine Healy, and NZPC Auckland Coordinator Annah Pickering about how ...
Apr 01, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Philip, Branko and Justine talk with Jonah Walters about his dissertation on Nicaragua as well as discussing recent Brazil and Bolivia news.
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Union organiser and podcast co-producer Simon Oosterman, who ran this 2005 campaign, talks about how they used a dispute with fast food giant Restaurant Brands as a lever to bring the issue of low pay into the national conversation.
Mar 25, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
The full crew (Kyle, Branko, Philip and Justine) talk cancel culture, stimulus and surveillance in NZ Politics and abroad.
Mar 22, 2021•57 min•Ep. 91
Philip & Kyle speak with Jacqueline Paul about deep structural aspects of the housing crisis in Aotearoa.
Mar 22, 2021•56 min•Ep. 92
