Another gutless consensus nothingness from the Labour Government – maybe the Politics of Kindness is too much of a wimp?
Sigh, another spineless capitulation from the Government…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Can ACT get 3 MPs & win National the 2020 election?
David Seymour’s deeply principled manner in which he set out to gain cross party support for his Euthanasia legislation alongside his staunch defence and support of Free Speech is positioning ACT for a level of support not seen since the days of Rodney Hide.
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Trump’s Impeachment going nowhere fast
I have no doubt whatsoever that Trump is so craven, so devoid of ethics, so narcissistic in his belief of absolute power that he most certainly did demand dirt on his political opponent before handing over military aid to the Ukraine.
I am equally certain that this entire impeachment will not only fail but could inadvertently cement him a 2020 victory.
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Will Ok Boomer turn majority against Euthanasia?
As societal entropy fuelled by subjective rage social media and environmental collapse divides solidarity in favour of ‘fuck you survivalism’, each tribe will start seeing the other in the worst terms with the cruellest agendas.
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Period poverty should be the beginning of a wider debate
The Government is there to shape and regulate the market for public good, this is a way to reshape it and make peoples lives a little easier.
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BREAKING: Feminism 2020 Conference to be held at Parliament
This is a huge political victory for Seymour and the woke’s attempt to strangle off free speech has back fired.
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Euthanasia needs to be a referendum decision
Will this bill allow those in pain and with terminal illness the peace they deserve or will it become a loophole of coercion?
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Labour do righteous thing on arranged marriages, NZ as a multicultural society & real tragedy of Shane Jones Bollywood Drama
I’m glad Labour have done the right thing and told Immigration to ease up definitions of marriage to take Indian arranged marriages into consideration when granting partnership visas.
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Thank God for the Privacy Commissioner! Finally someone gets the problem with the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill
As TDB has been pointing out from the beginning, the issue with the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill is not as the Greens tried to claim about Identity Politics, it’s the fact that this entire house of cards is based on an evidential threshold FAR below that of Criminal…
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Well, well, well – surprise, surprise – barely 2 weeks in & NZ Police State over reach caught on camera
A day after the Labour Government jaw droopingly suggested enormous Police State powers against anyone ever being around guns, video footage appears proving the very concerns many of us made about roving armed police squads…