Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
I’m old enough to remember Liz Gunn and there was no doubt that in her day she was the mustard. Intelligent, insightful and ruthless, she was the perfect team with Mike Hosking, like an extra pair of jaws for a pack of piranhas.
Universal Basic Income, 4 day working weeks, not for profit community wrap around service employment, Financial Transaction tax to shift tax burden from workers to Corporations and universal Union membership are necessities to cope with the magnitude of change coming.
I have zero confidence in James Shaw at COP26.
I’m watching the anger between the vaccinated and unvaccinated erupt on social media with a heavy hearted sadness.
Small Business is really hurting and their pain needs to be respected if we want the same compassion for workers, beneficiaries and the poor.
You have to respect that Jacinda just told Auckland that they will be in lockdown for another month, and no one in Auckland seemed to notice.
Push aside the tax bribes, what National are really saying is they are comfortable with 1000 dead as the sacrifice for the economy.
When we did the autopsy on why people didn’t get vaccinated during the 2019 measles epidemic, the majority of the unvaccinated weren’t happy clappy ‘Jesus is my vaccine’ Christians or yoga mummy bloggers, they were simply people too poor to pay for the transport costs to a vaccination centre.
To date the lazy trope of China is that they are good at stealing technology and back engineering whatever they steal.
This news that they successfully tested a hypersonic missile has stunned America by suggesting they have leap frogged their technology.
It’s like Trump is building an apparatus that will refer contested results to the House in order to steal the 2024 election.