Author: Martyn Bradbury

A public university and a public agency, two symptoms within our public service of the same disease.

Cough, as TDB pointed out in our How Stuart Nash wins National the 2020 election blog.

Gang numbers are up.

Meth prices are down.

What the hell happened and when does this political time bomb go off?

Get used to the massive disruption Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa caused Wellington today, because it’s only going to get worse.

Let’s put aside the fact that Oranga Tamariki is a brown washed state agency powered by white saviour delusions using neoliberal settings to argue immediate intervention to save the State money downstream.

Simon Bridges has given us a glimpse of what National will lead with into the 2020 election. It’s right wing economic mythology, mixed with demonisation of those on welfare combined with tough on crime Police state bullshit.

I’m sorry this has taken so long to write but I’ve just stopped laughing. Early last month, Boss Womble at the Ministry of Public Wombles, Peter Hughes, wrote this hilarious column… 

The problem with never healing past injustices between the indigenous and the coloniser is that when history knocks at the door of our collective national identity, instead of a celebration of nationhood, the past injustices erupt with the awkward emotional intensity of an abused child announcing past abuses at the family Christmas dinner table.  

It really says something about how out of whack our intelligence settings were in light of the Christchurch terror attack when policy was to limit refugees from Africa and the Middle East.

This is the EXACT sort of thing the Government’s drug testing stations at dance events is supposed to avoid, yet NZ First are refusing to accept the policy…