Are we ready for the cannabis referendum?
If we want real cannabis reform in NZ, it will have to be caused by a huge referendum turn out with numbers so large that not even Labour can ignore it.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Ummmm, are we really getting angry today over this moko kauae?
…let me see if I can just get this completely straight – a white woman who survived a gang rape by the Mongrel Mob & is married to a Maori man with a full facial Moko gets a moko kauae as a symbol of her surviving her gang rape and is now being crucified for cultural appropriation?
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If the NZ media thought they could get away with calling Stewart Murray Wilson the Tentacled Vampire Monster from Mars, they would (I’ll never be your Beast of Blenheim)
The punishment handed out to those who seriously breach our laws is a loss of liberty. For a species as communal as ours, there is no greater punishment. Needing to add suffering to that loss of liberty by portraying prisoners as subhuman isn’t justice, it’s vengeance and until we as a nation are prepared to look in the mirror and ask why we need vengeance over justice, we as a culture can not advance.
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What happened to New Zealand? When did anger and fear warp social policy into state sanctioned spite?
We have become a nation of passive malice, the malignancy of which overshadows all our creations.
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If the Israeli Embassy doesn’t like NZs criticism over their latest Gaza massacre, there’s the door
…We should be doing far more than criticising Israel, we should be kicking their embassy out and revoking their work visa status. Israel uses NZ as a safe holiday destination for their soldiers to chill out from all that oppression. We shouldn’t allow them to do that.
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Why Ashley Peacock’s appalling treatment makes me oppose euthanasia
…when I look at the way NZ treats prisoners, beneficiaries and the mentally ill, I have zero confidence in any suggestion of state sanctioned euthanasia.
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Clever marketing over ‘scrapping’ the ‘mega’ prison at Waikeria masks a new Goon squad in Christchurch Prison
While Labour desperately work out how to sell the new prison build there to their activist base who are already disenchanted by the National lite Budget (I’ve suggested how Andrew Little should spin the new prison announcement here), we shouldn’t take our eye off the ball of what is happening in Christchurch Men’s Prison….
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NZ Police ‘respect my authority’ used to justify killing another citizen
Our authority worship culture that is so intent on giving the Police any power to bash, chase and kill who ever they like just wouldn’t be acceptable in any other public policy field.
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The 3 reasons why the 2018 Budget is so depressing for the Left
When the Leader of the Opposition can claim on TV that ‘trickle down’ works, you know we are a country still in the grip of neoliberal culture. The Left has become so distracted by Identity Politics they don’t have an economic class response to counter neoliberalism and Budget 2018 is the perfect example of this.
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Suburban Far Right Race Candidate enters Northcote by-election
If there is a silent majority of racists living in Northcote, they finally have their knight in shining by burning cross light armour.