Arts funding under National
Last month Creative NZ warned it may have to cut arts funding because of a drop in Lotto sales which begs the question, should our culture be tied to gambling?
Martyn Bradbury
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NZ Media – paying respects when they are due
I am often critical of the mainstream media and the Mike Hosking to Paul Henry wallpaper of right wing arseholishness that passes as news comment in NZ – but respects need to be paid where they are due because for all the genuine concerns about the decreasing quality of Fourth Estate Media, there has been some remarkable journalism recently.
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Hear no poverty, see no poverty, speak no poverty: We have lost what it means to be a New Zealander
For some like the Key family, life is one long party. DJing, modelling, opening pop culture art events in Paris, Hawaiian mansions, foreign trusts, tax havens, property portfolios, Instagram followers and tax free capital gains.
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Earth breaks 12th straight monthly heat record – it’s time to acknowledge we have a run away climate event here
…in my heart I hope we have the ability to turn this around, but my brain tells me we are a greedy and selfish species who lacks the empathy to live in harmony with nature.
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The housing crisis is a class war
This is social policy spawned by spite and cruelty. We are actively punishing those whose plight and poverty offends our egalitarian pretensions. We are a country with all the maturity of a day old can of coke, so caught up in the false illusion of speculative property wealth, National voters have become wilfully ignorant to the desperation of their fellow citizens.
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BREAKING – BLOGWATCH: Cameron Slater halts appeal in long running defamation case
Now his longest running court case, his defamation case against Matthew Blomfield, has stepped up a gear. After appealing every part of the process, Cameron has finally given up on his appeal process…
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Paula Bennett’s 3000 ghost beds for the homeless
…so it’s 3000 existing beds. How spiteful to sell it as a solution while desperate families huddle in cars.
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We shouldn’t begrudge lenient sentences against 4 pakeha teens
We should not be outraged that 4 pakeha teenagers were given a lenient sentence, we should be outraged that leniency isn’t handed out to every teenager.
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Why media are so surprised by housing crisis poverty
National have no interest in solving the housing crisis because they need the speculative bubble to generate fake growth so our GDP numbers don’t dip. Escalating homelessness, poverty, inequality and over crowding is all just collateral damage to keep the speculators happy and voting National.
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CIA destroys evidence of torture
The United States of Torture spawns more terrorism than it ever catches.