Author: Martyn Bradbury

The truth is that Government has been hopeless at managing the neoliberal welfare agencies to be anything other than a stick, and have come far too late to the game in their first term to remedy these corruptions of social policy. The only hope to force real change is to fund groups like AAAP to be advocacy agents for beneficiaries (effectively unionise the beneficiaries) and also fund AAAP to prepare annual reports that are critical of WINZ.

On Friday the 28th of June at 4.48pm, Treaty Negotiation Minister Andrew Little, had his motorcade detained on the Waiotahe Bridge SH2 outside of Opotiki as he was transiting through Whakatohea territory having just taken the surrender of a tribe up the coast for 30 million pieces of silver. The local Ngai Tamahaua Hapu refuse to agree to such a corrupt land confiscation down-trou’ befalling their Iwi as he was about to find out. 

The deafening silence that has been so omnipresent over this baby uplift program by Oranga Tamariki has finally been broken by Willie Jackson who wrote on his Facebook page today…

While this self mutilation and martyrfication of militant micro aggression policing is fun to watch, the true issue is the Democrats finding a candidate who can beat this orange fascist who is currently threatening global stability inside the White House.

Those poor little meat eaters, who knew they were as snowflake as gun nuts, anti-vaxxers and woke activists. 

As much as I despise Trump, his mastery of stunts and political theatre is second to none. Suddenly the Democratic Debate is off the news headlines because all we can talk about is Trump’s extraordinary decision to turn up at the DMZ to not only shake Kim’s hand but to enter North Korea.

Just when you thought there was no actual point to ever watch The Nation, it turns up the biggest political surprise of 2019. Jacinda Ardern, our Prime Minister, a new mother no less, has not even bothered watching the horror of her Governments own agents attempting to steal a baby.