Ummm, shouldn’t Gerry Brownlee be doing what Gerry Brownlee does best?
So Gerry Brownlee is now an apologist for Australian torture camps that the Australian’s have walked away from on Manus Island?
Martyn Bradbury
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REVIEW: Thor does for positive masculinity what Wonder Woman does for feminism
Thor: Ragnarok has been reviewed by far more clever and geeky comic book nerd types than me so I won’t even attempt to compete with their detailed reviews of how this fits into the Marvel Universe and Norse mythology, but what struck me about Taika Waititi’s incredibly funny movie is the real tenderness he gives the male characters.
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The Daily Blog 2017 Christmas contribution drive
Paula Bennett DOES NOT endorse this contributions drive and would probably prefer you don’t read this blog at all.
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How National destroy the new Government through Select Committees over the next 3 years
National will call on massive public engagement from their voters and their financial backers to slow down the Select Committee process and scream about democracy being under attack if they aren’t allowed to have every Farmer and rich property owner in front of the Select Committee to complain about any new law.
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Jacinda dodges a TPPA bullet – elites search for next economic trigger to sabotage new Government
What the Right wanted more than anything was Jacinda to march off to APEC trumpeting resistance so that when it fell over, they could blame her for the impending economic slump. What these forces desperately want is to spook the market so interest rates go up which would give every NZer with a mortgage an extra couple of hundred dollars a week in mortgage repayments for Christmas.
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National crying wolf over claims NZ First legal action amounts to bad faith
The outrageous manner in which public servants alerted their political masters to a situation this large and for those Senior Ministers who have a history of leaking personal details like this to the media to get away with an obvious abuse of power demands justice.
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What Duncan Greive misses and why Ben Mack is National’s best chance of winning 2020
There is never a better fight to settle down and watch explode on Twitter than a fight between schisms.
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Why yesterdays meltdown by new Government was so much worse than first thought
And yes, that’s me getting into a twitter argument with the ghost of a fictitious tweeting cat, but even me arguing with the ghost of a dead cat is less stupid than what the new Government did yesterday.
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TWITTER WATCH: Paddles the Cat is dead
…this is a double tragedy for the Labour Party as Paddles the Cat was the only one in the entire Caucus that could count…
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WaateaNews: Combating the racist Prison Industrial Complex: Short term, medium term & long term
One of the many challenges for the new Government is how to combat the racist Prison system in New Zealand. Maori make up 14.9% of the population yet as of June this year, 50.4% of the 10 260 inmates in prison are Māori.