as programme notes to her cast of characters, Jane Kelsey lists 152 acronyms. Some of them you might even have heard of. The U’s are easy : there’s UN, UNESCO, UK and US and not many more. That leaves

that picking between a better balance sheet and a better environment is a false dilemma. *The Save Happy Valley Campaign is waging a very vigorous struggle to protect endangered native snails from coal

Treasury Secretary and billionaire, is a central character in the story, both for his role and his mentality, and he has obvious current equivalents. After October 1929 Mellon got on a high horse. The

minister from 2001 in the North Island that he felt the best of his talents could be exercised for the benefit of others. A man deeply versed in history, poetry, scripture, theology and literature, he

To our great good luck, we came across Brian Mackay of Addington Print”. “He gave us 100% and more in the years he printed Watchdog – he kept his rates dirt cheap, he always provided plenty of

good luck to you” (the axe was removed by the end of the ceremony). Earlier it had been pointed out that it would take five people to fill Penny’s shoes, so maybe that is a forlorn hope. Getting

Shock And Awe The best of all opportunities was provided by Al Qaeda on 9/11, exploited by the Bush cabal to remake not only Iraq but also the US itself. And the central metaphor of neo-liberal policy

a specific and unique story and it always lets its characters speak for themselves (*I reviewed “The Shock Doctrine” in Watchdog 117, April 2008, online at http://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/17/

in the fiercely contested battles to preserve the character of Sumner and Redcliffs. She worked tirelessly from home, ringing people, networking, organising, writing letters, and hand delivering things

in the central city, which sounds well and good, except that this art is not intended to express something of the heart of its creator nor lift the spirit of the people here, but “to see Christchurch