Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
…it’s good that there will be a promotional advertising campaign calling on behaviour change and support for the men who cause this violence, but my suspicion is that once people in harms way realise calling the Police triggers inter-agency backlash then those in danger will stop calling Police.
While Grant Robertson and James Shaw continue to promise our corporate overlords that a Labour led Government will maintain National’s old austerity budget, those children living on the streets are the most obvious amputation of the politics of kindness.
The horror of what Alabama has pulled off by effectively banning abortions is their ‘Handmaid’s tale moment’, NZs ‘Mr Israel’ setting up a far right Christian Party is to prop up National is going to be ours.
Like an official panty sniffer, the Ministry of Social Development sneak around people’s bedrooms to see if they are in a relationship or not.
Leading the charge to demand social media companies face regulation to stop the live streaming of terrorist acts is noble and an appropriate response to the atrocity in Christchurch.
We currently do these international students a terrible disservice so news there is cheating rife throughout the entire structure is the perfect symptom to a rotten industry.
To date, Trump’s nationalism has had an isolationist feel about it when it comes to his foreign affairs agenda.
What else can a parent do when the state kills your child? You run to be a public voice on the organisation that killed and you highlight the incompetence and corruption and for doing so get sacked when the Government wants to sweep it all under the carpet.
…Police overkill has been a feature of urban policing for a long time now, it’s just this current group being targeted haven’t been targeted in the past.
You can say many things about JT, lack of vision isn’t one of them.