Racist “One Nation” party caught selling gun laws for cash
In an incredible Al Jazeera undercover story, Australia’s One Nation minor party was causght red handed offering to weaken Australia’s tough gun laws if America’s National Rifle Association and gun-seller XX could pay them enough cash. Read the full story here www.nzherald.co.nz and here www.aljazeera.com
Film review: Soldiers without guns
In world where stories of government corruption are the norm and greed and violence tend to fill the headlines, this film of how the New Zealand government put an end to years of bloodshed in Bougainville, without firing a shot, shows how powerful peace, love and understanding can be. Director Will Watson has spent the better part of the last dozen years putting this feature-length documentary together to tell the story of how the “Pacific Island Paradise” of Bougainville, part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, went from being a peaceful,…read more
Review: “The Crash” Photos by Stephen McLaren
Seeing these photos of real life in the City of London puts faces to the complex story of global financial takeover by focusing on England’s financial centre between 2008 and 2012. In the author’s words: “It’s the summer of 2008 and whispers of an impending financial meltdown carry in the wind. Walking from home in Bethnal Green to the City of London with a camera and a newspaper feels like a posting to the front lines. Skirting Paternoster Square I notice the stockmarket’s scrolling LEDs have RBS and Lloyds shares…read more