So if National win 2023 all they promise to do is attack Maori?
Look, protecting property speculators and bashing Māori has been a policy platform that has paid National dividends in the past, but it just seems so 1890s.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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I can smell the Uranium on your breath – Responding to criticism that Jacinda has gone woke on China
This is what an Independent Foreign Policy looks like.
We will not be beholden to Beijing OR Washington!
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Judith exemplifies National Party hypocrisy and cements Leadership worries
Those 45+ Women who avalanched over to Labour see Jacinda as the daughter in law they always wanted, while they see Judith as the Mother in Law they have.
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Transmission gully is an idealogical nightmare thanks to National
Small Government and the free market are as out of fashion as Nu Metal and Limp Bizkit.
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Labour’s Public Health announcement is a death blow to neoliberal politics
Go hard or go home. Labour has NOT gone home!
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Duh! Of course the confiscating Neoliberal Settler State found Ihumātao sale ‘unlawful’
Queen Wasp Nicola Willis is outraged, but you get the feeling any time Māori win back some basic rights she becomes incandescent with rage.
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The intellectual bankruptcy of the NZ Left’s Hate Speech legislation
Watching the Woke allow the entire NZ Intelligence apparatus off the hook for their total failure with the Christchurch terror attacks by demanding hate speech laws is one of the great intellectual failures of 2020 and 2021.
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Life of Brian would be banned under NZs new hate speech laws – Why we must all break this law
We lose free speech to criticise religion? How the hell is that anything other than a victory for the terrorist?
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When will we accept the climate crisis is out of control?
There is a point when people suddenly realise that there is no technological solution coming and that the climate crisis is unstoppable.
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$25 benefit rise is as meaningless as Neokindness
If this is what ‘transformative change’ looks like, the Prime Minister needs a new dictionary.