Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
All I keep hearing in the current Superannuation debate are boomer bureaucrats trying to tell GenXers they won’t be able to afford all the creamy cradle to the grave subsidisation their generation enjoyed.
1 in 14 Māori kids have a chance of being removed from parents, compared with 1 in 50 Pākeha kids…
Let us as a nation be crystal clear so that history hears us, we will not back Trump in military conflict against Iran. Not one of our soldiers should be put in harms way because this tangerine fascist is too much of an idiot to comprehend what he’s doing.
This constant cacophony of base racism defended with a ludicrous sophistry to try and justify and excuse the base racism is an audacity and affront to anyone with basic reading skills.
Want milk powder with that repression?
We know the Independent Police Conduct Authority is a toothless lap dog to Police, the only thing the Police fear is public scrutiny, so when you see the Police roll heavy, you always get your phone out and record their actions.
Jacinda Ardern was in TVNZ breakfast this morning suggesting that a parade would be too much, I think she is deeply wrong. We should give this team a parade, they might not have arrived with the cup, but they are still winners who did us proud.
In 2016 the National Party weaponised CYFs uplift powers & created the Ministry for Vulnerable Children (later brown washed to Oranga Tamariki) so why the Christ will the PM and her Minister die in a ditch for draconian neoliberal big data social policy that isn’t even theirs?
Isn’t it unacceptable that the Prime Minister and Minister in charge have yet to see that video? How can they answer honestly when they haven’t seen first hand the duplicity, manipulation, out right lies of their own Government agents and the brutal math used to simply wear the mother down in the hope she collapses with exhaustion.
We refuse to ask the why of suicide because we are too frightened to know the answer is a reflection of the shallow and lonely community we have become. Instead we reel off a list of phone numbers whenever we dare mention suicide as if that means a fucking thing.