Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
You can’t take photos of journalists investigating you and then hand those photos over to a far right hate blog and pretend that’s a legitimate way of countering that investigation.
National + ACT are the Government on these numbers.
How is demanding 25% of those in emergency housing the politics of kindness?
These people need assistance, not a kind slumlord.
So Jacinda and Simon clashed in Parliament yesterday and we got to see how their peer reviewed attack lines played out and extrapolate from how they are insulting each other what they are trying to spin to the watching voters
To get around not having the courage to raise benefits, Labour needs to create ‘The Kiwi Dividend’ which will see the first $10 000 you earn as tax free.
Getting caught out serving two masters is as politically embarrassing as it gets, hence Winston’s need to talk directly to his supporters while bypassing journalists.
It’s time to start thinking about New Zealand as a lifeboat and respecting it as such.
The demand to ‘not panic’ should not be greater than the effort to prepare us for a rapidly emerging pandemic!
Clearly the backlash amongst his own Caucus has forced him to reconsider, but this is terrible messaging by Simon.
…how can Bob Jones possibly sue for defamation when he no longer has a reputation to defame? Defamation law asks if a reasonable person would think less of the person being defamed. Seeing as Bob is a vicious, nasty, suicide-goading-then-bragging-about-it-racebaiting arsehole, nothing Renae Maihi said could lower Bob in the eyes of a reasonable person any more than Bob’s own words and ugly behaviour.