We are 31 years away from civilisation collapse yet the things we argue and debate right now are so petty
Right wing climate deniers will snarl this is just another report from delusional lefties, however, that’s not true…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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What happens when China can reproduce our milk powder? Oh this happens.
The Climate Crisis demands we radically shift from dairy but we don’t, so the bottom of the market falling out of the entire industry may well be the impetus for change.
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Adrian Orr’s war with the Banks and why it matters
The spectre of the last crash and how close it came to plunging the NZ Shire into Mordor haunts The Reserve Bank, Orr can’t forget that fear as he battles the banks.
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I’ve never seen so many Green and Labour supporters rush to defend the bloody Treasury before in my life
Labour & Green voters don’t need to be so tribal about this – Treasury fucked up, not the Government!
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Pink on Pink friendly fire only helps Bishop Brian
Brian Tamaki is not the messiah, he’s just a very stupid boy but the only winner of pink on pink friendly fire is him – he comes across as less nasty than the latest rainbow schism – it’s like social media was created to show us at our worst to our political enemies.
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For those who say I am being too critical of the Government’s ‘wellbeing budget’…
Tribalism aside – If you look at the fine print, the budget was NOT transformational and it makes the politics of kindness seem like a sick joke.
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I think almost everyone on the Left who are trying to underplay what Treasury did hasn’t read this…
I’m not nearly as clever as my woke comrades on Twitter, but wtf is ‘beltway’ about Treasury knowing they weren’t hacked but then telling everyone they were? Shouldn’t we be incandescent with rage at such a manufactured deception by one of the most powerful Government Departments?
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If Labour looked after children in poverty with as much passion as they protect public servants we wouldn’t need a well being budget
Labour are lucky that the Treasury mishandling of the budget has become the story rather than the fine print reading of the budget because the lack of anything remotely representing transformation would have killed voters who had put their hopes into Jacinda’s politics of kindness. The truth is this budget falls far short of anything meaningful.
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Dear Teachers of NZ – you are our last chance!
At some stage, the Government have to bow to your demands, and seeing as the ‘transformational budget’ was about as transformative as a lump of coal, you are the last chance progressive NZ has to show people power is the only truly transformative force in politics.
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With this budget, the Government have shown us they define ‘transformational’ about as well as Treasury defines ‘hack’.
The biggest losers here are the hundreds of thousands of New Zealnder’s desperately needing hope in mental health, poverty, low income wages and housing who were cruelly let down by the hacking/leaking drama played out by politicians who care less for the issues and more for the cheap headlines.