Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Get used to the massive disruption Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa caused Wellington today, because it’s only going to get worse.
Let’s put aside the fact that Oranga Tamariki is a brown washed state agency powered by white saviour delusions using neoliberal settings to argue immediate intervention to save the State money downstream.
Simon Bridges has given us a glimpse of what National will lead with into the 2020 election. It’s right wing economic mythology, mixed with demonisation of those on welfare combined with tough on crime Police state bullshit.
I’m sorry this has taken so long to write but I’ve just stopped laughing. Early last month, Boss Womble at the Ministry of Public Wombles, Peter Hughes, wrote this hilarious column…
The problem with never healing past injustices between the indigenous and the coloniser is that when history knocks at the door of our collective national identity, instead of a celebration of nationhood, the past injustices erupt with the awkward emotional intensity of an abused child announcing past abuses at the family Christmas dinner table.
It really says something about how out of whack our intelligence settings were in light of the Christchurch terror attack when policy was to limit refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
This is the EXACT sort of thing the Government’s drug testing stations at dance events is supposed to avoid, yet NZ First are refusing to accept the policy…
I despise the Orange Fascism that is Donald Trump, while also feeling conflicted about him as a President.
Your enemy isn’t your fellow countrymen and women, it’s the 1% who have economically structured us into subservience and division.
The gap between 2019 and the worst result this decade, 2013, is now opening up as daily returns in the current race dwindle.