Never before have such a wide range of issues with Māori at their centre erupted all at the same time, and in each case the rotten unfulfilled promises of the sovereignty promised under the Treaty is the root disease for each symptom.
The question every political pundit has been asking since last months surprise TVNZ and Newshub Polls ( which both told…
Does anyone think that the forced removal of protestors from a scared historic site that is in dispute with the indigenous people would result in anything other than violence?
Angry Chinese residents full of nationalistic fever + indignant Hong Kong students + shocked Kiwis + politicians too wedded to our Chinese Overlords to say anything critical = explosion.
The problem bigger than no electoral coalition partners and a lacklustre Leader with all the charisma of a pedestrian accident is the policy blackhole.
This is a gutsy move by Jacinda and has given her the mana to lead and propose a solution.
So the Prime Minister can’t watch the Oranga Tamariki uplift video and she can’t do anything about Ihumātao?
Why does Labour always betray Māori trust and faith in them?
Those who have benefitted from the privileges of big polluting capitalism refuse to agree that the environmentalists have been right all along, even if it means cooking themselves and the planet.
Look, I get that as someone with an education over 16 with basic reading skills, I am not the target audience for this slop, but TVNZ managed to fill a room with a cheering audience who all looked like they had drunk their body weight in Red Bull, so maybe lowest common denominator lite entertainment is the glorious new future of public television?
In the post Me Too landscape where accusation is the thew new evidential threshold, Peter Ellis may have been already been publicly executed, but the hysterical manner in which he was convicted has never been examined and his guilt remains one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice this country has ever witnessed.