So when are we going to talk about China and is milk a bit fascist?
…when is our Government going to have words with our largest trading partner about those internment camps?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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National want forced labour prisons
The latest attempt at eroding prisoners civil rights are National’s calls for forced labour camps. What National are ignoring is NZ is signed up to International Labour conditions that specifically ban forced prison labour.
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Prisoners rights to vote and the dark path to eroding our civil liberties as promised by National
…NO! NO! NO! Parliament are not ‘entitled’ to strip prisoners of the right to vote, you need a super majority to do that! For Simon to be arguing that a bare 51% majority has the power to strip the rights off the other 49% is a dangerous precedent to be attempting to seek here.
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NZ First scandal – it is the culture backlash that’ll get you in politics now
NZ First will be investigated, it will be found that while the spirit of the law has been shat all over, everything is legal under the current legislation with its purposely designed enormous loop holes you can drive truck loads of cash through.
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Andrew Geddis leads the NZ First backdown and the real solution to kicking out corporate interests in politics is public funding
Remember when the media breathlessly screamed the PM not only knew about a sexual assault but covered it up and then went really quiet on that insinuation? Yeah, well funny how everyone screamed NZ First had broken the law & now watch all the walking back on that claim.
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Someone please tell me this bloody ‘slide’ pretending to be a budget MacDonalds playground didn’t cost $500k?
For $500 000 I expect a teleportation portal at the bottom of the damned thing that immediately transports me to an Amsterdam coffee shop!
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Can NZ Greens do what Elizabeth Warren has done and step beyond Identity Politics to challenge neoliberalism?
…it is time to restructure the edifice and doing that requires a tax that hits the richest hardest.
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NZ must take responsibility for Samoan measles catastrophe
This isn’t about middle class anti-vaxxer yoga mums and lazy solo mothers, this is an abject failure of public health policy and it is shameful.
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Many NZers fail basic general knowledge test – are we stupid or getting cleverly set up?
I was genuinely shocked at the low level of General Knowledge we seem to collectively have – I didn’t even think any of this was ‘knowledge’, just basic basic basic facts – “Is Winston Churchill a real person’ – I mean, WTF?
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So Labour’s response to our neoliberal public service is MORE neoliberalism?
I think I’m done with Labour.
Their response to our neoliberal public service is MORE neoliberalism???