Centrelink scandal has been happening in NZ for decades
Labour and the Greens won’t touch the punitive neoliberal welfare state, but MANA and the Maori Party certainly can.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Dear Bill English, are Waitangi Day protests as cringeworthy as you topless doing the haka?
It’s the funny thing about culture in New Zealand isn’t it? At home white Kiwis seem to loath anything to do with the Maori culture because it forces us to consider the past abuses of the State which most of us have benefitted from, yet the bloody second they are drunk on their OE in Europe, they throw off the t-shirt and bust out their best Haka moves.
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I hate Jordan Williams and the Taxpayer’s Union with a passion, but when they are right, they are right
You all know I despise Jordan Williams and his flake David Farrar backed Taxpayer’s Union with a passion.
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Dear New Zealand – we need to have a chat about Waitangi Day
This is real life, not social media. You can’t just block someone or mute them, you have an obligation to interact civilly and if we as Pakeha want a day where we can celebrate being NZers, then that requires Maori to be with us enjoying the same fruits of the societal harvest.
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Formal racism vs Casual racism – things the Progressive left still don’t get
NZ is way more formally racist than we liberals in social media bubbles acknowledge, which is why focussing on micro aggression casual racism comes across as pointless alienating self-aggrandisement.
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Meryl Streep & the horror of post truth politics. Trump DID mock a disabled journalist
…in the far right post truth world of the Alt Right 2 plus 2 equals whatever Donald Trump says they equal.
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More fake news from the corporate mainstream media Summer news teams
If we leave the 2017 election to be reported on by the corporate mainstream media, we will get the same result we did in 2014.
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Auckland renters threatened with more rent increases – 2017 will snap many NZ’ers
We require new law cementing in long term tenancies with rent controls and the promotion of ‘ethical landlords’, people who refuse to squeeze every last drop of money out of their tenants for needless greed.
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Waitangi Day needs a weeping millennial and when will Fairfax do to their own Journalist what they did to Leitch?
English would have watched the backlash to the Peter Leitch is racist debacle and believed disrespecting Waitangi Day would perfectly compliment the growing anger at defaming Leitch.
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United Future – a revulsion of one & will MoU survive Ohariu?
Asking the Greens to stand their candidate aside and vote for a Labour candidate who is a former law and order hardarse like Greg O’Connor seems about as reasonable as appointing Cameron Slater to the Broadcasting Standards Association.