Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
We all agreed post 9-11 to allow our Governments to ramp up powers to protect us from a terrorist attack of that magnitude, but who has the State actually been going after since 9-11?
So the worst kept secret in right wing politics has finally announced he’s running for Botany.
What does it mean?
National love to deregulate and underfund everything, it’s what they do, but the admission by NZTA that they completely dropped the ball on road safety under National deserves some more focus, especially as Simon Bridges was in charge at the time and is now leader…
…because of the ease of hacking online voting machines, any NZ election that adopts online voting would mean I would never vote again.
Seeing as the PM likes to DJ, maybe she needs this on loop…
Strip out the one off re-valuation of Kiwirail and the change in how IRD books tax, and you have $4billion in real surplus.
That’s a problem.
It really says something about us when bloody South Park are greater champions for free speech than the NZ Identity Politics Left.
The tensions inside NZ First between the angry rednecks who want angry redneck policy and Winston’s more rational stance combined with the retail politics need for vested interests to fund you will run riot because NZ First doesn’t have any real ideological values.
Trump is either remarkably ignorant of the geopolitics here or he is nakedly corrupt and is getting some type of unseen quid pro quo out of Erdoğan.
Or both.
A public university and a public agency, two symptoms within our public service of the same disease.