Level 2 is the end of the first chapter, so curb your enthusiasm
Talk that the economy will ‘bounce back’ seems inanely optimistic to me
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Talk that the economy will ‘bounce back’ seems inanely optimistic to me
We have a contempt for the vulnerable with official agencies that seem to delight in the abuse of rights.
Another week and another example of the toxic culture within WINZ…
Both the legal challenge, Data Dump & Leak have political winners and losers – here’s the run down:
This Government saved this country from a pandemic, that they were rushing ill fitting legislation through to ensure our safety does not equate to a malicious conspiracy to take over the country and insinuating that it does is disingenuous at best and purposely deceitful at worst!
…our collective generosity with these wage subsidies was to ensure vulnerable workers weren’t dumped onto the street, what we saw was the wealthy and ideologically hypocritical stampede towards money that was never supposed to be used or abused by them…
It’s hard not to feel a certain pleasure at the death of New Zealand hyper tourism.
Our consent to a Police State for a virus the vast majority of us won’t die or suffer from is not endless, and to believe otherwise is a grotesque misreading of our compliance.
We can’t entice migrant workers here, have them exploited by unscrupulous bosses and then tell them to piss off back home.
There are two ways to look at this new announcement by the Wellington Bureaucracy…