The GPJA website has not been updated for a decade. It has been only used for occasional notices. Since I have recently retired from my day job I am keen to revive the site and make it useful for our times.
I want to maintain it as representing a broad left, antiwar and social justice framework.
I want any leftwing activist to feel they can have their blog ideas published on the site as well.
I also want to do a weekly newsletter again. When I originally did this site and a newsletter associated with it it was because it was hard to hunt down any left views on the web. Today there is an (over) abundance of all views but hard to work out what is useful and what is just rubbish.
I NEED HELP TO RENOVATE THE GPJA SITE TO MAKE IT FIT FOR PURPOSE. ANY VOLUNTEERS?
POLITICS
Gordon Campbell: On why Chris Hipkins is living on borrowed time
Anneke Smith and Russell Palmer (RNZ): Winston Peters should ‘seriously look at himself’ – Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand’s Abdur Razzaq
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): The Green plan to oppose the new Government
Lydia Lewis (RNZ):‘Bold Pasifika voice’: Fa’anānā Efeso Collins ‘elated and humbled’ to be in Parliament
Simon Wilson (Herald): Why didn’t Labour do more? (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Post): After the defeat a reckoning must follow (paywalled)
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. the vanquished
MAORI
Manu Caddie (Newsroom): Indigenous reforestation is a Treaty right – and the right thing to do
Jamie Tahana (E-Tangata): The kōhanga reo generation is here
Eva Corlett (Guardian): ‘A lot on the line’: New Zealand’s youngest MP looks to Māori ancestors to build new future
Tumamao Harawira and Deborah LaHatte (Whakaata Māori): Māori constituency welcomed by Greater Wellington council; rejected by Auckland council
GAZA CONFLICT
John Minto (Daily Blog): How the nastiest bits of history have a way of reinventing themselves
Max Harris (Post): New Zealand must push for a political solution to the crisis in Gaza
1News: Helen Clark: ‘Collective punishment’ in Gaza ‘completely unacceptable’
Mike Smith (Standard): Passing the buck on Gaza
Mick Hall: ‘Insipid call for a tea break’ – New Zealand fails to follow UN lead and call for ceasefire in Gaza
Steven Cowan: NZ is now complicit in genocide
John Minto (Daily Blog): Colonisation in Palestine
Gordon Campbell: massacreOn New Zealand’s selective morality on Gaza
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Here’s how much household living costs are rising
Eric Frykberg (Interest): ‘Banks up to their old tricks’
RNZ: Agriculture sector facing difficult economic conditions – Reserve Bank
HEALTH
RNZ: Auckland City Hospital emergency department staff frustrated at staff shortages
Ruth Hill (RNZ): One in four kids suffer vision or hearing problems, testing at some South Auckland schools finds
NZH (Paywalled) Heart surgery: Half of patients overdue cardiac surgery; delays at Auckland, Waikato, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin hospitals
HOUSING
David Hargreaves (Interest): New Zealand’s mortgage interest bill hits new high
EMPLOYMENT
Lucy Thomson (Newshub): Massey University survey reveals growing sexual harassment in workplaces
Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Spinoff): Apropos of nothing, here’s everything you need to know about unions
Edward Miller and Craig Renney (Spinoff):If Luxon wants to cure New Zealand’s ‘productivity disease’, here’s an idea
Vita Molyneux (Herald): Scathing review of stevedoring industry following deaths in Auckland and Lyttleton
ECONOMY
Ian Powell: Food sovereignty versus profit-maximisation
Liam Dann NZH Liam Dann (paywalled): Why David Seymour’s hardline monetary policy is a bad idea
LAW AND ORDER
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Legal challenges to police use of automated number plate recognition cameras
CLIMATE CHANGE
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Renewables targets likely to be missed without funding, market reforms – report
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What this new Climate report really means and why we need to start being honest about climate change
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Climate change’s financial impacts hugely underestimated – Kiwi researchers
IMMIGRATION
Mike Treen (The Post) Recent visa scandals are just the tip of the immigration iceberg
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Spike in NZ refugee claims sees applications up by hundreds in one year
AHMED ZAOUI
David Fisher (Herald): Ahmed Zaoui charged in Algeria under law which includes death penalty as possible sentence
FILM & TV
Spinoff: Review: After the Party is queasy, morally complex and NZ’s best TV drama in years
BOOKS
Stuff: Rugby league book details the game’s excellent social history
GPJA 
Hi Mike, Congratulations and THANK YOU for your efforts. Since you’ve listed a substantial list of topics, and since you’ve included the ongoing (75years+) Gaza conflict, and since you note the overarching “antiwar” purpose of the newsletter… I would like to nominate as another broad topic NATO/US/EU Expansion, the provocations of Russia and western escalation of the Ukraine conflict, US provocations of China Taiwan/HK etc, and the various Neocon adventures around the world that actually have us on the verge of World War III. Mainstream NZ media is virtually silent — AWOL — on these topics, largely reflecting the country’s geopolitical allegiance to the US. What we get is Russia bad, China bad, NATO/US good, etc etc etc Where was the critical RIMPAC coverage?Why is NZ involvement in NATO going virtually unchallenged (Ardern, Hipkins, Mahuta attendance), now just taken as normal? Why is NZ military “training” involvement in the Ukraine war taken as normal and appropriate? Where is the Rocket Lab coverage and revulsion at launching US military payloads from NZ soil? Where is any commentary about US provocations and escalations around the world? As for the big picture geopolitical/WWIII/NATO etc topic, there is a tremendous amount of good coverage and commentary out there…just not in and from NZ sources and not from CNN/BBC/NYT/RNZ, all of which sound like their coverage comes straight from the US State Department. Bottom line… If “antiwar” advocacy is a central component of the revived newsletter, and if a “global” outlook is central to its identity, then the topics above and many more related subjects would be appropriate for inclusion. Respectfully, Geoff Robinson (not “that” GR) Port Charles >