Announcing my new podcast: The FRONTLINE with Dr Gary Payinda
On Youtube, Spotify, and Apple podcasts
Many months ago I was on the BHN podcast, then invited back, with a great viewer response. Subsequent to that I was asked on other podcasts, did community talks, and ultimately was asked by BHN to join a media project they’re doing: Blindfish, which in my opinion at least, has a chance to become a rallying point for NZ progressives to share their knowledge and organise real action (not just words). They’d just added Craig Renney (an amazing analyst on the intersection between economic policy and the lives of real NZers). I was happy to come aboard.
The podcast be a chance to give people the deeper stories, commentary, interviews, and discussions on issues that matter to regular Kiwis—stories that won’t get mentioned on clickbait-driven corporate media and in 3-second soundbites, or the hellscape that is rightwing media.
To that end, Blindfish media is helping me produce my new podcast:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKzyMX9pCGMsw3KNv9Si-UnWn7L8gUZt2&si=BGkSqPs_jeMyerfx
If you’ve read my stuff, you know that I, perhaps like you, want:
1) A New Zealand that takes care of its own people.
2) A government that’s dedicated to the health, wellbeing, productivity, and happiness of the average Kiwi.
3) A nation that believes that strong public services make society better and safer for all of us.
4) And a people who actively fight against any government or private attempts to diminish NZ — to degrade and privatise our public services, to ruin our environment and our taonga, to sell our public assets, to poison ‘the public good’, in order to boost private and corporate profits.
In short, a society and a government working to help the average New Zealander. We must build and protect a decent society, if we want to live in a decent society.
The FRONTLINE will look at the people that are struggling to do the best they can: the regular folks trying to provide for themselves and their families — nurses, tradies, teachers, cleaners, caregivers, patients, whanau, paramedics, police, defense force, truckies, labourers, retail workers, and of course, the people referred to by our political leadership as the bottom-feeders.
You know who you aree: you are the people that actually keep the country going. Whose labour built New Zealand and whose taxes paid for New Zealand. And whose efforts are now being dismantled during a cost-of-living crisis, with increasing numbers of NZers now unable to afford mortgage, rates, energy, and in some cases, even food. This is the best of times for the very rich, a time of record-profits for some, and the worst of times for a shrinking middle class. It doesn’t need to be this way, and we can, and must, make it better.
Join me on The FRONTLINE with Dr Gary Payinda, available on Spotify, Apple podcasts, or Youtube.
—Dr Gary Payinda
Link to: The Frontline
I am so grateful you chose to do this Gary. I also think it is really brilliant to focus on our essential workers who are undervalued and underpaid. While the super uber rich sit back are not usually doing 'essential' work for society, and gain big from govt. Who's the real bottom feeders!?
👍👏 Bit distracted doing my democratic duty & watching the farce of the submission hearings on the RSB 😱 To be clear, the submissions (with 1 or 2 notable exceptions) aren't a farce - the process is. But even this farcial limiting of who gets to appear and how long they can talk, the quality & passion of those opposing the bill is inspiring 💪💗 Not one BOT in evidence, but well thought out intelligent highlighting of insurmountable flaws in the proposed legislation in both the way it is written AND the harm it has the clear potential to do in many facets of a healthy & equitable Aoteroa.
I'll catch up on your episodes after a mind cleanse 🤷 Definitely appreciated your other podcast appearances & writings to shine a light on what is happening in the Health sector etc