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Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime stats
This is the sort of shit that Trump pulls with his media… TVNZ chair calls Paul Goldsmith after police minister dissatisfied with gang numbers story The media and broadcasting minister Paul Goldsmith has confirmed the board chair of TVNZ contacted him after the police minister expressed dissatisfaction with a 1News story about gang numbers. Goldsmith said the chair of the…
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Labour do right AND SMART thing on $63m MSD/ACC clawback
Labour requests amendments to bill that could leave vulnerable people in debt The Labour Party has requested amendments to the…
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MEDIAWATCH: Aotearoa Podcast Survey February 2026
The Daily Blog has commissioned me to conduct a monthly survey of online content from which to make a definitive…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Class political warfare via employment law
In 1894 the new reforming Liberal government passed the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It was recognised as landmark legislation…
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War on Iran is an illegal and murderous adventure that must be stopped
The attack on Iran by the US Trump regime and the Israeli apartheid regime are war crimes that threaten another economic and humanitarian crisis. The only beneficiaries will be the oligarchy that rules the United States empire for their own domination…
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Ben Morgan’s Pacific Brief: The evolution of land forces in the Pacific: Part Three – Exercise Hedgehog 2025 – Why it matters for land warfare in the Pacific?
New technology is changing land combat and last year several NATO armies got an important ‘wake up’ call during Estonia’s…
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The Need For Schools to Develop Creativity
Are New Zealand schools narrowing education to basics? Why creativity, arts education, and imagination are essential for children’s future success.
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Epstein files flooding the zone and rewriting history
As Epstein disclosures resurface in 2026, the real story may be institutional trust, media fragmentation and the battle over elite accountability.
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Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime stats
This is the sort of shit that Trump pulls with his media… TVNZ chair calls Paul Goldsmith after police minister dissatisfied with gang numbers story The media and broadcasting minister Paul Goldsmith has confirmed the board chair of TVNZ contacted him after the police minister expressed dissatisfaction with a 1News…
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Labour do right AND SMART thing on $63m MSD/ACC clawback
Labour requests amendments to bill that could leave vulnerable people in debt The Labour Party has requested amendments to the Social Security Amendment Bill, a proposed law change that could leave vulnerable people $63 million worse off, while supporting it to the next stage of the law-making process. Stuff first…
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What will happen next in Trump’s illegal Iran war?
You just know that whatever is lurking at the bottom of the Epstein Files must be pretty bad because surprise, surprise, Donald Trump and Israel have launched an illegal war on Iran in an operation that should be called ‘Epic Tantrum’. It’s not clear why America and Israel needed to…
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Why do so many alt-Right white men hate Tamatha Paul?
Cough. You’ll remember the pile on last year when Green MP Tamatha Paul had the audacity to suggest that not everyone felt safe with the Police… What a Green MP said about police, and why it’s being called ‘nutty’, ‘stupid’ and ‘la la land stuff’ Stuff …yeah. ’bout that… New…
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Eru does another suicide bombing of Te Pati Māori – why the drama-drama doesn’t matter to the wider Left now
And the self mutilation of Te Pati Māori continues with Eru’s new suicide bombing of the leadership, this time with…
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Hooton calls Luxon a ‘national security threat’ who will lose National the next election
On last nights ‘The Bradbury Group’, political commentator Matthew Hooton said that Prime Minister Chris Luxon was going to lose…
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How can we criticise Putin and not Trump?
Fresh from military action in Gaza (where their war crimes were so extreme they technically breached Genocide thresholds), America and…
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MEDIAWATCH: Aotearoa Podcast Survey February 2026
The Daily Blog has commissioned me to conduct a monthly survey of online content from which to make a definitive list ranking of Aotearoa political podcasts. The survey and ranking system will follow my previous project on blogs so far…
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The Bradbury Group with Barbara Edmonds + Matthew Hooton, Simon Wilson and Matthew Tukaki political panel
A NZ Herald columnist, a Listener Columnist, a Marxist, a Māori raconteur and the Finance Spokesperson for the Labour Party all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do you think this is? The Bradbury Group?”…
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: As Trump bombs Iran, why would we hand over our biometrics?
The timing is bad. Just as President Trump launches an illegal attack on Iran, (following his illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro), America has threatened the 42 countries in its Visa Waiver Program to either agree with their new Enhanced Border Security…
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Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast with Dale Husband, Teanau Tuiono, Georgie Dansey and Bomber Bradbury
Joining us this week for Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast is host Dale Husband, Green MP Teanau Teanau Tuiono, Labour MP Georgie Dansey and Political Commentator Martyn Bradbury Move on powers Citizen arrests The report into…
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MEDIAWATCH: The NZ Free Speech Union is the sound of one hand clapping
The NZ Free Speech Union is nothing but a Zionist Apologist Front that weaponises Free Speech for the right! They are part of the Taxpayers’ Union Stable of clients and are Atlas Network connected. They are bad faith actors who…
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The Liberal Agenda – The Rocky Horror Picture Show 5 stars
Fifty years after it first strutted onto stage, The Rocky Horror Show remains the ultimate cult musical — part theatre,…
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In Occupied Palestine – 02 March 2026
In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land Sanction Israel Gaza‘s growing death, injury and sickness 08:00, 02 March 2026 until 08:00, 03 March 2026 In Gaza during the past 24 hours…
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GUEST BLOG: Talk Liberation – Humans Reject AI, Panquake Goes Viral Again
As AI discontent spreads, people-powered social network Panquake is perfectly positioned to give users what they need – at exactly…
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GUEST BLOG: Mick Hall – Five Eyes on Iran
Responses to the US-Israeli crime of aggression from member states of the US-led Five Eyes intelligence network place them among…
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Class War: Leadership Counts
Class War: Leadership Counts There are tens of thousands of people in New Zealand without secure housing. Over 150,000…
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GUEST BLOG – Seeby Woodhouse – The Discombobulator
When Maduro was captured 6 weeks ago, I didn’t write an article, because frankly it was a fairly depressing prospect…
The Bradbury Group
War Abroad. Poll Shock at Home. Crime Spin Tested.
The Bradbury Group goes LIVE with Barbara Edmonds, Matthew Hooton, Simon Wilson and Matthew Tukaki. Trump’s escalating war with Iran and NZ’s confused response. A new IPSOS poll showing Labour ahead on almost every major issue. And National’s claims of falling crime — reality or spin? Sharp debate. No safe spaces.
Raw News
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Groups Demand Civilian Protection, Respect For Law Amid US–Israeli Attacks On Iran – Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand
Amid rapid expansion of regional hostilities across the Middle East following the ongoing joint United States-Israel attacks on Iran and the subsequent wave of Iranian retaliatory attacks across the region, Amnesty International is issuing an urgent call on all parties…
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Alternative Jewish Voices Urges, Stop This Catastrophe! – Alternative Jewish Voices
We, Alternative Jewish Voices, deplore Israel and America’s illegal war of aggression against Iran. We also condemned the repression of Ayatollah Khamenei, but that does not justify this war. International war will only bring – is already bringing – more…
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Iran Crisis: Schoolgirls Killed, Thousands Displaced And Aid Compromised – UN News
UN human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani also recalled the horror of a strike on Saturday which reportedly killed and injured dozens of girls in a primary school in Minab in the south of Iran. “Children, little girls…at the beginning…
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Children Sleeping In Cars And On The Streets In Lebanon As Families Seek Safety – Save the Children
Families are sleeping in cars, in the street and in damaged schools seeking safety as the number of people displaced in Lebanon rises and with seven children reported killed, Save the Children said. About 58,000 people, including an estimated 16,000…
