The structural reality of how National intend to make this the most negative election ever by playing directly to that negativity must be consistently pointed out and explained to our whanau so that they don’t get scammed into voting hatefully in 2020.
The 2019 child poverty monitor report makes for grim reading…
If we were handing out medals for eroding human rights in NZ, National by far are the gold medalists.
I don’t think NZers ‘get’ how big the climate crisis really is. How enormous the impact of endlessly pumping pollution…
The Trump Impeachment is a sad and torturous affair made more petty by Republican tribalism and Democratic impotence.
What might save Labour from Grant Robertson’s intellectual caution is the type of event Orr is desperately attempting to insulate NZs economy from.
Currently right wing NZ activists are filming themselves entering book stores to turn a biography about Ardern around and are loading it onto twitter using the hash tag #turnardern
We should collectively be righteously appalled at the tone deaf ODT cartoon that made light of the terrible measles epidemic that has killed over 50 children in Samoa. It was an ugly ‘joke’ that shouted white privilege, but calls to boycott the ODT, sack the cartoonist and the enormous social media wave of fury seem to me to be grotesquely misplaced.
Poor old bloody Chris Faafoi, trying to help a mate in a situation he’s personally aware of is unfair and what happens? The mate he’s trying to help turns on him and in a tantrum looks like he’s handed over all their private messages to the media.
6 months ago the Cannabis referendum looked like it would die before it could be harvested.