Deconstructing Headlines

…as someone who fought for MANAs feed the kids bill, it is joyful to seeing this rolled out.

The protection of Māori water rights are a win for every New Zealander.

…if you want to spout ideas, all well and good, but when challenged you should need to front and actually engage in debate to defend your views, so what has National Party MP Matt King decided?

National’s 9 years in power were built upon selling as much cheap milk powder to China and foreign speculation in the domestic property market, so when National make policy, are they answering to Wellington or Beijing?

One of the interesting dynamics for the 2020 election will be the overseas vote. Typically this always benefits the Greens…

Yay! The first generation of user pays, Gen X, are now going to have to wait longer to get their…

…The Dark Art of politics now is not in the proposal and debate of ideas, it is the promotion of anger as policy which is communicated to potential voters based on the outrage it generates amongst identifiable tribal protagonists.

Our under funded social infrastructure, our ‘me first’ consumerism, our 30 years of neoliberal mythology, our disconnection from one another, our untreated pain, our lack of hope from grinding poverty in a first world country, our damaged masculinity, the intergenerational consequences of colonialism, our unspoken rage culture, our inability to express emotion beyond anger – all of this demands questions we don’t want to hear as a society and the shame of suicide continues to hide and smother any healing.

It’s time to start rethinking our support for Dairy, Tourism and the fraud that is international education. Unfortunately the political power each of those industries have mean any Government is too frightened to challenge them.