The Liberal Agenda: Pop-Up Globe Shakespeare – Richard III – 5 stars
I was waiting for Actors Equity to condemn Pop Up Globe as heteronormative patriarchal sexual symbolism and demand the entire franchise be renamed Shakespeare Strap-On.
Martyn Bradbury
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Why RadioLive failed
The commercial media market in NZ is at saturation point with right wing pundits and Radio Live never offered an alternative to that and ended up trying to compete for ZB listeners using bait that was not as right wing as ZB could produce.
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Dear Teachers of NZ, ignore your useless union and strike, strike, strike
Dear Teachers
Let’s be honest shall we?
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Holy Shit Hawera – blackface in a public parade in 2018?
How on earth in 2018 NZ could anyone hosting a public parade not sense that blackface on white people is as offensive as a cross burning festival?
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Waatea News Column: Why I can’t applaud Corrections reducing the prison population but support the passion of Kelvin Davis
The Hui did a remarkable job over the weekend of highlighting the extraordinary drop in the prison muster by 1000 since Kelvin Davis became the Minister.
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So now CIA have concluded Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi’s murder – will Jacinda cur diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia?
If Jacinda’s politics of kindness is to mean anything it must demand justice at its heart and that means she is going to have to stand up to MFAT by cut diplomatic ties to Saudi Arabia.
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Whistleblower review is a whitewash joke
When you consider the state housing meth hysteria, the abuse of power by the police, GCSB and SIS, the horrific manner the mentally ill are treated with, the abuse of prisoners etc etc etc, the public service want to limit any whistle blower protections as much as possible and it shows in their spineless recommendations.
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The Liberal Agenda: Upper Hutt Posse finally make Vodaphone Music Awards relevant again
The brutal and illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine should be denounced every possible chance we are given, and in a NZ music scene devoid of politics and focused on the vapid, Upper Hutt Posse reminded us, as Lorde did, that music can be far more powerful when its critical.
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Investigation into sabotage of Academics car must finally start demanding answers about Chinese influence in NZ?
…maybe we should, you know, get back to that whole China influencing our politics thing in light of new allegations that the Academic who is outing this assault on our democracy may have had her car sabotaged…
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Another week from hell for Minister Eugenie Sage
This is the time to be activist with your Ministries, what the hell was the point of going into Government as a Green Minister if it is merely to rubber stamp flawed free market regulations?