Why National’s pothole announcement is such sophistry
Pothole Repair Fund: National announces $500m road transport policy National is pledging to pour $500 million over three years into…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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OCR Pause while food inflation explodes to 12.5% – I thought Orr proclaimed inflation tamed?
Food inflation surged from 12.1% to 12.5%… Cost of living: Food price inflation up again, leaping 12.5 per cent in…
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MEDIAWATCH: Tax Poker – I’ll see your Damien Grant and raise you a Max Harris
Listening to a Libertarian on tax is like listening to cancer on chemotherapy… Damien Grant: What Labour’s wealth tax plan…
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Evidence of why 3 Strikes doesn’t work should wake every tough on crime cheerleader
This blistering appraisal of the get tough on crime rhetoric is this years best journalism and a must read… The…
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In it for you (as long as ‘you’ are a property speculator, Banks or mega wealthy’)
Chippy has launched Labour’s slogan, ‘In it for you’, which is only true if the ‘you’ is a property speculator,…
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Chippy’s backdown on Wealth Tax highlights why the Left needs John Tamihere’s Maori Party
To attempt a wealth tax as Grant Robertson has done via the official channels he did was always doomed to…
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Matariki 2023: White Kiwis are treating Māori angry at years of abuse the way a parent who has beaten their children behaves at Christmas Dinner
Syd Jackson would always say that Pakeha feared Māori doing to them what they did to Māori and that was…
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Is Hell Pizza about to have a Bud Lite moment?
Ummmmm. Hell Pizza, the Pizza brand best known for not being Pizza Hutt and Dominoes, has decided on the most…
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Why Gareth Hughes is so right about the failure of Labour
Gareth Hughes preaching some heavy truth… 40 years on, it’s time to reboot the economic system that got us into…
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Why the Chippy vs Luxon TV Debates will be so important this election
With the polls on a knife edge, I believe the TV debates between Chippy and Luxon will be more important…