Deconstructing Headlines

Last week I nominated Pania Newton for Young New Zealander of the Year, for her incredible leadership at Ihumātao and this week I am nominating Matthew Blomfield for New Zealander of the Year.

You can always tell how much a political narrative is bullshit by how shrill Hooton gets and the nonsense over Julie Anne-Genter’s ‘secret letter’ has reached such a fever pitch, only dogs can hear Hooton screaming that she must resign.

…so if the climate crisis is the existential threat Shaw claims it is, then the current policy direction of the Greens goes no where in combating that threat.

Winston is defending a system that beats the vulnerable and abuses them under the guise of intervening and ‘rescuing’ babies because he hates the talk of colonisation.

Is that unfair and cruel? Sure, but this is where we are now. 

I have been incredibly critical of the Minister’s response to Orange Tamariki uplifts, but Tracey Martin deserved far better than what Winston Peters did to her over the u-turn on abortion.

Dear NZ First, you are in Parliament to work, so do your damn job and cast your vote based on your conscience otherwise you are political bludgers shirking their democratic responsibilities.

And then it was over. The guns finally stand spent, exhausted from decades of never ending war prosecuted with contempt…

There is no need whatsoever to put this to a referendum, it is the right of any citizen to seek a medical procedure because abortion is NOT a crime, it is a health issue!

This low horizon imagination that grips anti-intellectual NZ as ferociously as a frightened child to its attachment parenting mommy blogger mother bubbles and churns beneath the faux Tea Parties and beige triumph BBQs of bucolic NZ.