Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
We could hold the election on September 19th, the Electoral Commission has contingency plans for a Level 2 lockdown election format so this latest outbreak could be solved in time for a 4 week campaign and we could still have the election on September 19th.
I don’t think we should.
In the rush to lockdown the country during the latest Covid outbreak, we missed the finer details of their latest example of appalling National Party behaviour.
The cluster is not metastasizing so the current lock down of Auckland at level 3 and the rest of the country in level 2 will remain in place for 12 days.
So the National Party are as ‘aspirational’ as Sauron is when it comes to destroying public services?
National are arguing for a delay in the election because the Virus flare up distorts the media attention onto Jacinda and not even coverage of the Opposition.
What National are doing now is incredibly dangerous.
Latest internal UMR poll has been leaked providing fascinating insight
Oh dear. The folks who only use Facebook as their news source are losing their shit right now.
Judith is on the side of the virus, here is her press release already framing this as Jacinda’s failure…
There are political ramifications of this new outbreak.