Enormous win for people power at Ihumatao, Jacinda shows real leadership & Willie Jackson sent in to save Labour (again)
This is a gutsy move by Jacinda and has given her the mana to lead and propose a solution.
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Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Jacinda Ardern’s spineless position on Ihumātao and the disgusting Police Overkill
So the Prime Minister can’t watch the Oranga Tamariki uplift video and she can’t do anything about Ihumātao?
Why does Labour always betray Māori trust and faith in them?
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Oh look at that – the science on climate change IS settled after all
Those who have benefitted from the privileges of big polluting capitalism refuse to agree that the environmentalists have been right all along, even if it means cooking themselves and the planet.
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Before woke social media witch hunts – there was Peter Ellis and satanic hysteria
In the post Me Too landscape where accusation is the thew new evidential threshold, Peter Ellis may have been already been publicly executed, but the hysterical manner in which he was convicted has never been examined and his guilt remains one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice this country has ever witnessed.
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Mueller Testimony sinks Democrat hopes – less crusading investigator – more Mr Magoo
Dems hoped that Mueller would televise his report to an entertainment focused electorate & relight the debate because the vast majority of American’s hadn’t read the report, but unfortunately Mueller’s stumbling Mr Magoo performance failed to make him look crusading.
He looked tired, old and grumpy.
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It’s the Green Party – too woke to joke
If you are going to offend, own it and do it purposefully.
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Ihumātao: We either stand now against the State as they steal more Māori land or we acknowledge we are the collective problem
The State steal Māori babies, imprison Māori, fail them in education, housing & poverty – Now the State is stealing Ihumātao – what are you going to do?
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The politics of kindness doesn’t work on Australians
Its time to actually have a fight with Australia over this because if Jacinda can’t throw a punch for an issue as unjust as this, she’s going to look weak as well as timid in 2020 when she needs to look strong and confident.
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Boomer bureaucrats trying to steal Gen X Super
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.
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The outcomes from Oranga Tamariki are racist, so you can stop defending them now (PS it’s been 39 days since the footage & our PM and her Minister still haven’t watched it)
1 in 14 Māori kids have a chance of being removed from parents, compared with 1 in 50 Pākeha kids…