Waatea News Column: What next for Ihumātao?
After Māori King Tūheitia helped build mana whenua consensus in a Māori centric decision making process that ended up agreeing that Ihumātao should be returned, what happens next?
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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MEDIA WATCH: Brave Mike Hosking starts a fight with a 16 year old girl – who won’t this climate denial bully attack?
Based on todays ridiculous attack on Greta Thunberg, Mike Hosking would have told Martin Luther King to stop dreaming, Kate Sheppard to get back in the kitchen and Nelson Mandella to dump the uppity darkie malarky
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Labour are so neoliberal, it even extends to our Rugby (plus a twist at the end you won’t see coming)
I get that many of my fellow New Zealanders love Rugby and I will put aside my deep cynicism about a country that defines itself by playing a game that barely anyone else plays to watch the World Cup once every 4 years.
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“How Dare You” – Thunberg’s righteous fury at our climate denial and all that’s wrong with Stuff’s climate change journalism
That we have come to require a young girl with Aspergers to give us hope is an obscene abdication of responsibility by us adults.
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Why would we believe anything Saudi Arabia has to say when blaming Iran?
Why on earth are we believing any claim of ‘evidence’ of Iranian involvement from a country who recently chopped up a journalist and lied about it?
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MEDIA WATCH: Does Andrea Vance’s defence of Paula Bennett lead to neo-Salem Witch Trials?
Last years vicious Kavanaugh confirmation hearings created this very backlash and robbed Democrats of wins that they should have picked up to defeat Trump with.
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DHB measles incompetence vs NZTA incompetence
One of the problems we have is a State whose incompetence due to lack of capacity is now becoming the main problem.
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A sunken stadium at the waterfront? Really?
With catastrophic climate change on the horizon, and rising sea levels, the idea of building a sunken stadium right on the waterfront sounds like a cleverly designed death trap.
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TWITTER WATCH: Who the hell would join the Australian Youth Coal Coalition?
I would imagine a Venn diagram of the Australian Youth Coal Coalition and the Hitler Youth would be a perfect circle .
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Consider what the NZDF have attempted to argue last week and ask how this isn’t a war crime?
The convoluted lies and insipid sophistry that the NZDF expect us to believe while they have spent a week stumbling over each other as they stammered and blushed their way through a cavalcade of crude amateur ineptitude masquerading as military precision is so bewildering you wonder how the living Christ they manage to pick up a gun and not shoot themselves in the foot each morning.