Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
There we all were, lounging around in Fortress Aotearoa like there wasn’t a global pandemic happening. Cruising the Shire without fully vaccinated border staff, refusal to build larger MIQ facilities and a devil may care approach to ICU beds propped up by a dangerously underfunded public health system.
What could possibly go wrong?
It is extraordinary in the extreme that the identity politics devotees will attempt to ignore the deceit used to remove a Maori child from a white step-family to paint this as a intersectionist power struggle between the heteronormative white cis male patriarchy and post MeToo feminism.
We have an obligation to raise funds to rebuild Afghanistan and take thousands in refugees.
The grief given NZ for putting the people before money by international critics says more about them than it does us.
Nothing sums up late stage capitalism better than watching all our TV current affairs hosts not hosting their shows because their MC corporate side hustles all became places of interest with Delta.
To attempt to intervene in the sacrosanctness of our independent judiciary so racist practices by Oranga Tamariki can be hidden is so disbelievingly outside the norms of our system it’s almost a Donald Trump level molestation of due process.
Why not celebrate the political life of Michael Cullen than with the memorial Cullen Capital Gains Tax?
We should never have invaded Afghanistan and watching those who championed that invasion now trying to defend it shows the…
Wearing a face mask is not the same as Nazi Germany you fucking morons.