Waatea News Column: Is it time for Auckland’s first Māori Mayor?
With John Tamihere throwing his hat in the ring for the Mayoralty, Auckland could get it’s first Māori Mayor.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Vernon Tava Blue Green fantasy shows how desperate National are becoming
Blue Greens will fail to get any electorate traction at all and I support National wasting energy on this bullshit as it will only eat into National’s voter base without any representation.
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Tamihere brings together left-right coalition to defeat Goff & the ‘annoying The Spinoff’ rule of thumb for winning
Tamihere is running for Mayor and he has been clever enough to pull together a left-right spectrum to unify Auckland to defeat Goff.
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Andrea Vance lances the New Conservative pus of David Moffett
I am hoping that New Zealanders are smarter than this, but I also fear that a cultural backlash to the woke may propel the New Conservatives into a position of power.
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‘You deserve to die’ is the nicest part of that text message
…now, as I have begged since the beginning of this scandal, can we get to, you know, the REAL issues here – what happened to the donations by wealthy Chinese Businessmen and how about that attempt to buy two Chinese MPs on the National Party List?
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The 4 reasons why KiwiBuild is an enormous failure
So, how many Government Ministers does it take to build 1000 KiwiBuild Houses?
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If Paula Bennett is National’s answer to the cannabis issue, what the hell was the question?
By selecting Paula Bennett as their spokesperson on cannabis, National have clearly singled they have no wish to seriously debate the issue and are simply going to do everything in their power to degrade it into the prehistoric fear mongering debate of yesteryear.
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Waatea News Column: This is America !
Beyond the rushed judgements and our need to see the worst in the other, we have a cultural landscape lacking in basic kindness and dignity. In the hyper critical environment of social media where hot takes and lack of all facts leaves us with little more to go on than ill judged opinions and easy anger, we are becoming nothing more than a baying lynch mob.
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It’s going to take more than Jacinda’s kindness to combat inequality in NZ
While Jacinda is in Britain trying to suggest a free trade deal with NZ will somehow make the cluster fuck of Brexit somehow easier for Theresa May, the latest inequality numbers are out and they show a society horribly distorted by wealth…
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Bridges bashes beneficiaries & reminds us how difficult change will be
The truth is that welfare needs to be dramatically increased, sanctions dumped and moves towards a universal basic income adopted. That is a truth Simon and the National Party will die in a ditch to prevent because they know that if the poor actually benefited positively from welfare, they would start voting rather than recoiling from the process in the way they do now.