The Spinoff calls for more white people coverage of Auckland Mayoralty – really?
Auckland is the largest Pacifica and Maori Urban city in the world, yet their voices, their aspirations and their reality is rarely ever listened to.
Martyn Bradbury
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What many opponents of Trump seem to be horribly missing in the latest opinion polls from America
At this stage, it doesn’t even matter if Hillary wins, Trump has won. The hate he has injected into the body politic is unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times and the long term carcinogenic impacts of that type of political cancer are difficult to predict.
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Let’s be honest about what the Corrections Blunder is really about shall we?
This isn’t a ‘blunder’ – it’s the truth about a civil service that has become uncivil. About public services that are supposed to be the bastions of egalitarianism essential to a progressive liberal democracy mutating into the cruelest of torture devices used by the State to keep the poor too terrified to fight back.
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Gifting something that isn’t yours to gift: What Kermadec’s fiasco says about us
It’s always funny how it’s supposed to be Maori who just roll over and have their private property taken off them for the benefit of the public
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The facade of local democracy in Auckland
The fundamental problem of engagement in local democracy comes down to the grim reality that most of the democracy at a local level is a facade.
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Breakfast on TV3 vs Breakfast on TV One is a clash between two bald old media monoliths fighting over a comb
The new TVNZ Breakfast Team look like they are insurance brokers for a new company that gets most of its new client enrolments at malls…
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NZ Herald/Fairfax merger and the burning of the public square
From Paul Henry in the morning to Mike Hosking at night with a merged right wing newspaper monopoly in the middle. An unbroken chorus of neoliberal mythology masquerading as successful fact.
We have become a one media state.
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1 dancer vs the NZ Empire of Toxic Masculinity Rugby
…so it was an encouraging and female friendly environment where Scarlette performed graphic acts for the lads in a really pro-feminist setting?
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We need a Housewives of Real Auckland
What’s uglier? The Spinoff fawning over their exclusive relationship with the Real Housewives of Auckland or the NZ Herald’s?
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As NZers scramble to comprehend that their justice system is racist – a Maori gets threatened with arrest for speaking Maori
That it’s taken almost 2 centuries for us to discuss how racist the system of NZ really is should be the shocking part of this issue.