No! No! No! Renter Rights NOW! Not in 2020 – don’t do a Hobbit Law on this
It’s about time the Government moved on the grotesque imbalance of power between Landlord and Renter with some attempt at righting some wrongs…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Cough-cough – Helen Clark mentions the apocalypse
The simple truth is that the neoliberal lite Labour, middle class identity politics Greens and the Provincial NZ First are incapable of effecting the radical reform needed to adapt our culture, economy and community to the realities of climate change.
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The world according to Judith Collins: Chelsea Manning a killing traitor vs Mark Mitchell blood drenched mercenary hero
Where the hell does Judith get off criticising Manning as a killer when she sits alongside Mark Mitchell a blood drenched Iraq war mercenary who worked in an industry that was riddled with allegations of war crimes?
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The grim truth about Global Warming in one terrifying image
The truth is that what the Greens are proposing by being carbon neutral in 32 years is just bullshit. They are offering us all an umbrella to protect us from a tsunami.
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Why Labour’s new appeasement of Business confidence will fail
The new Business confidence ratings are out and they continue to plummet and the truth is that Labour’s new attempt to appease that plummeting Business confidence will fail.
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If we are serious about combating Chinese influence in the Pacific, NZ Government should consider taxpayer funding the All Blacks
Everyone from big Paddy Gower to the avocado millennials over at the Spinoff have shit on the idea of giving taxpayer funds to the All Blacks.
I think we should seriously consider it with strings attached.
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Something the Justice Summit missed – why are NZs prisons becoming forced labour camps?
While prisoners should work if they want to, attaching parole to that isn’t incentivising, it’s forcing.
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How useless, gutless and spineless is ECan and the Environmental Protection Agency?
…since when did a country that prides itself on being clean and green allow the very agencies that are supposed to protect the environment help those who want to exploit it damage it without any consequences?
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Ummm – do we really want to give Corrections Staff tasers after this?
…NZs damaged prison industrial complex is damaging the prisoners AND those we ask to work in that environment.
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Dear Jacinda – Of course business confidence has plummeted – and there’s one simple reason
Economic growth under National relied on a speculative property bubble, rebuilding from natural disasters and mass immigration, that’s all that kept the GDP inflated and ‘rock star’ like. Low business confidence is proof that fake growth model is over and the business community know it.