Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Dumping 3 strikes is smart politics and Andrew Little is the smartest player of smart politics. The man who has touched gold with every portfolio handed to him just screwed this one up and tripped did he? The man who timed walking away and catapulting Jacinda into the leadership was outflanked by NZ First was he?
Simon Bridges either embarks upon an internal cultural reformation of civility and generates policy that challenges party status quo and aims to pull a middle class who will be dizzy from petrol price cost increases, mortgage hikes and a public service that isn’t helping over to a milder less angry National Party or he just waits until Judith slides her knife into his back to the cheering of National Party members.
As Trump prepares for a sit down with Singapore, a story came out last week that just seemed to sum up modern Amerika in a delightful and depressing manner.
1362 is a lot lower than the 3000 National should have been aiming for and is proof positive that Jacinda can reach deep into National Party territory.
The Greens are going a lighter shade of Lime by once again allowing the Farming Industry off the hook by not including methane in the climate change emissions.
Incredible announcement on the AM Show this morning. The head of HNZ, Andrew Mckenzie finally fronted on The AM Show…
So he was a anti-abortion, homophobic, climate change denying sadist who caused enormous social harm to the poor because he believed the State had replaced God to those people.
Housing NZ and their Minister Paula Bennett were told in 2016 by the Drug Foundation that they were misinterpreting their own policy on meth contamination, and Housing NZ told the Drug Foundation they were right but kept doing it.
I think we have a leader in Jacinda who could articulate this powerful vision and provide that leadership, because if we don’t make a radical departure now we are going to get sucked into the geopolitical vortex between these two and be forced to choose a side that in’t in our true national interests.
Please tell me NZ that HNZ and the National Party aren’t going to get away with blowing $100m on a contamination problem that never existed, leaving hundreds of state houses empty during a housing crisis and maybe 1000 people homeless?