The Tourism Industry takes and gives little back
The Tourist Tax is a start, it needs to be higher and this targeted funding most be used to upgrade tourism infrastructure while we ponder how many tourists are too many tourists.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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National proclaiming they want to find climate change solutions is like the Tobacco industry proclaiming they want to find solutions to cancer
You can’t ‘take the politics’ out of climate change – it’s no longer a scientific question as to whether or not it’s happening, inaction is now a political problem and seeing as your party has the largest number of climate deniers in NZ, that makes it YOUR problem!
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Who is the most disingenuous pile of political garbage? Jami-Lee Ross, Mark Mitchell or David Bennett?
Jacinda has left the building and the Nats are in attack mode trying to destabilise the Government under Winston’s term as caretaker.
The attacks though are just such disingenuous bullshit, look at the utter crap being served up this week by Jami-Lee Ross, Mark Mitchell and David Bennett, it’s incredibly difficult to work out who is the biggest pile of political garbage.
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Apparently the Green Party of NZ have only this week heard about this thing called the Overseas Investment Act
This decision to allow China to take more of our water on a planet that is rapidly warming is cowardice as well as treasonous.
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Dear Labour – how you are going to get screwed by the Hobbit (again)
The media will go into meltdown that Labour are trying to pass law that will kill off the LOTR TV series being filmed here, Matthew Hooton will go onto TV to breathlessly tell every political panel show that Labour just can’t help but suck up to their union mates while the rest of the country suffers. Mike Hosking will say it’s proof the Unions have run amok. Kate Hawkesby will ask why does the Left hate NZ made creativity. Barry Soper will ask why the Left hates Peter Jackson so much and Heather Du Plesses-Allan will predict the end of the new Government and the resurrection of John Key.
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For every sanctimonious clown claiming North Korea are human rights violators – just consider why that is?
I’m not suggesting for one second that North Korea aren’t human rights abusers, but the West’s role in causing the damage that empowered this regime always gets lost, especially when so much of the American Left are now wanting to paint Kim as a ruthless dictator.
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Green Party green lights Chinese company to take MORE water?
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again – the Greens are chequers players trying to play chess and this is just the latest realisation of that.
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What we need to believe in illegal Police persecution against Hager
Cameron Slater makes a complaint to the NZ Police that his emails were hacked and stolen on August 28th 2014.
By October 2nd 2014, the NZ Police illegally search Nicky Hager’s house for 10 hours.
That’s 36 days from when Slater makes his complaint to when the Cops break into Nicky’s house.
Compare the time it took the NZ Police to investigate the theft of Don Brash’s emails that made up Nicky Hager’s book, The Hollow Men.
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What the meth hysteria must teach the Left – The State is the enemy and when will we allow Māori to save us from ourselves?
If beneficiaries were treated holistically by welfare agencies rather than punitively, if the provision of social aid actually cared in a kindness kaupapa, then those human beings in desperation would have the space to heal and rebuild and become productive members of our society in a community resourced to care.
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My statement to the NZ Police now they have settled the illegal persecution of Nicky Hager
…now that has been finally settled, here is my statement to the NZ Police regarding my case against them for dragging me into this pus pit…