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We can’t outspend China, but we can play a far smarter game.
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
We can’t outspend China, but we can play a far smarter game.
Getting tangled up in making it compulsory is missing the opportunity to progress while requiring focus on the structural racism that blights NZ.
The real reason National are now starting to signal they will dump ACT however isn’t because of a sudden realisation that the deal isn’t working, it’s that National want to try it out elsewhere.
The almost spiritual connection thin skinned farmers have with their cows means nothing David Parker could have said about dairy polluting our water was ever going to be acceptable.
The neoliberal welfare agencies have countered this drop in anyone wanting to interact with their agencies with glossed over stats that suggest things are getting better when front line poverty agencies see a surge in demand.
When it comes to bullshit ‘get tough on crime’ rhetoric, Red is the new Orange.
Four new bills have been drawn from the parliamentary ballot and they really do give you an insight into what National & Labour values actually stand for.
I’m getting sick to death of the attempt by those on the right to somehow justify the latest dirty politics smear against Clarke as somehow fair because the Left indulge in dirty politics as well.
In the one breath Slater says he had nothing of do with the smear, and then in the next breath he says…
The co-ordination of this smear against Clarke, the anonymous troll army echo chamber promoting it, the fact the story suspiciously never changed and the place it was originally launched from – this was all a concerted effort by ‘someone’ to destabilise the Government.