NZ can only trade with China while it remains Internationally benign – what happens if that changes?
Becoming economically reliant on China is not a position we want to remain in.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The neoliberal welfare state is refusing to pay the politics of kindness anything other than lip service
The only way to force reform is shaming. The Government must look to the many, many NGOs and Community organisations that are forced to interact with the neoliberal welfare state and fund them to act as service support for beneficiaries and to produce public reports on counter productive policy.
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Royal Commission of Inquiry into white supremacist atrocity will ask hard questions
This Inquiry may well be the most important examination of domestic intelligence ever conducted and it will be overseen by a Government who have clearly shown they will take direct action for change.
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Gun nuts should be under surveillance now
The more & more I read of the irrational, wilfully ignorant & down right malicious crap spouted by the NZ Gun Lobby…
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How many acronyms does it take to catch a white supremacist?
The solution here is not more vast surveillance powers, it’s the intelligence agencies using the existing powers they already have against real threats, not the reds under the bed who they’ve focused on so far.
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Ummm, so what National are asking for is the right to storm brown people’s homes anytime the Police want???
It wasn’t a gang who shot & killed 100 Muslims – it was a white supremacist – demanding Police gain the power to storm brown people’s homes to seize guns as a response to that terrorism is ethically bankrupt.
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Chippie finally makes up for the first day of Parliament by catching out David Seymour
Catching Seymour out was as much a redemption for Chippie as it was a repudiation to Seymour’s media preening.
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Majority of submissions reject the neoliberal seductiveness of euthanasia
This legislation is to appease alpha personalities who can not tolerate the idea of needing help in the painful end of their lives, but it will be used against the poorest and most vulnerable who are already so easily abused by the State.
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Dear Labour – make the hate speech review about regulation of social media NOT a debate about free speech
In the wake of this atrocity we have solidarity and a genuine desire to change, regulating social media would be a huge step forward together on that, using an ideological framework over what can and can’t be said by the individual would be a giant leap backwards.
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Secret police trials using secret evidence in NZ – welcome to my Kafkaesque nightmare
Isn’t it incredible how left wing journalists, activists, Māori, environmentalists, Greenpeace, the Green Party, earthquake survivors and left wing bloggers all have to accept erosions of civil liberties in NZ, except for white supremacists who apparently can plot atrocities for years and the State doesn’t seem to want to annoy them.