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Scoop Election Podcast: Defence, BlackRock and Labour’s Plunge in the Polls – with guest Peter Field
Geopolitics and investment giant BlackRock dominate the conversation in this week’s podcast but we also cover banning cell phones from schools and the latest political polls. In a recently released Taxpayer’s Union poll Labour had slumped to 27% while the New Zealand First Party was comfortably above the MMP threshold of 5%.
Making his debut with 'Politics from Canterbury' team is Associate Professor Peter Field from the University of Canterbury.
During our ‘succinct’ but slightly longer than normal discussion about issues of Defence and Foreign policy we referenced Tweets from New Zealand’s former Prime Minister Helen Clark. Ms Clark was concerned the defence policy review documents released by Minister of Defence Andrew Little in August ‘23 compromised New Zealand’s independence.
Full Twitter Thread
Helen Clark: Twitter Thread related to release of defence and security documents
Keith Rankin: Judaism, Antisemitism, And Israel
Ian Powell: Haka, Hikoi And The Empowerment Of The Kohanga Generation
Binoy Kampmark: Feeding Chaos - Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence
The Conversation: News Bargaining Incentive:
Binoy Kampmark: Last Acts -Time For Biden To Pardon Assange
Binoy Kampmark: Foiling Rupert Murdoch - Project Harmony Misfires