So Labour’s ‘transformation’ equates to spending billions on bloody roads???
Building a better motorway bridge for the homeless to sleep under isn’t much of a vision.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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TWITTER WATCH: National’s social media misinformation campaign a new dark dawn for NZ Politics
The structural reality of how National intend to make this the most negative election ever by playing directly to that negativity must be consistently pointed out and explained to our whanau so that they don’t get scammed into voting hatefully in 2020.
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Waatea News Column: Why is the Politics of Kindness failing our poorest children?
The 2019 child poverty monitor report makes for grim reading…
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Labour almost as good as National at eroding our civil rights
If we were handing out medals for eroding human rights in NZ, National by far are the gold medalists.
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What the measles epidemic, Australian bush fires and floods from the weekend storm tell us about NZ in a dangerously warming planet
I don’t think NZers ‘get’ how big the climate crisis really is. How enormous the impact of endlessly pumping pollution…
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Trump Impeachment a circus with too many clowns and what I truly fear
The Trump Impeachment is a sad and torturous affair made more petty by Republican tribalism and Democratic impotence.
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Adrian Orr is preparing NZ for the next great economic depression – will Australian Capitalism, neoliberal NZ quislings & Labour’s intellectual cowardice allow him?
What might save Labour from Grant Robertson’s intellectual caution is the type of event Orr is desperately attempting to insulate NZs economy from.
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New Zealand Volcano Update and Jacinda’s leadership
Currently right wing NZ activists are filming themselves entering book stores to turn a biography about Ardern around and are loading it onto twitter using the hash tag #turnardern
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Waatea News Column: ODT Cartoon outrage misplaced
We should collectively be righteously appalled at the tone deaf ODT cartoon that made light of the terrible measles epidemic that has killed over 50 children in Samoa. It was an ugly ‘joke’ that shouted white privilege, but calls to boycott the ODT, sack the cartoonist and the enormous social media wave of fury seem to me to be grotesquely misplaced.
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Moral of the story? Don’t ever do a favour for Jason bloody Kerrison
Poor old bloody Chris Faafoi, trying to help a mate in a situation he’s personally aware of is unfair and what happens? The mate he’s trying to help turns on him and in a tantrum looks like he’s handed over all their private messages to the media.