Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
NZ owns 51% of Air NZ – like it or not they have a social obligation to provide services to provincial NZ and for Air NZ to attack the new Governments criticism is extraordinary.
The new Government MUST use this opportunity to bargain with the Unions for better pay and conditions in return for wholesale culture changes in each of those sectors.
Radio NZ have done an interesting story looking at the plethora of reviews, working groups, advisory groups and investigations that the new Government have announced since coming to power…
In the same week Cambridge Analytica has been busted exploiting Facebook data mining the NZDF is being forced to answer questions about Peter Thiel’s mass surveillance data mining.
…we need a rational debate about Police pursuit policy that can’t be derailed by ‘respect my authority’ as a response.
…Key had golf with Obama on January 3rd 2014 and by 19th February 2014 the old boy network of the New Zealand appeals court overruled the 28 June 2012 decision, and declared the search warrants against Kim Dotcom to be valid.
I for one did not vote Greens for them to hand over fucking 42 parliamentary questions to the fucking National Party.
…the latest sackings at the Trump White House & Casino this week show Trump is now so comfortable in his ignorance that he will throw any semblance of caution to the wind and surround himself with people who flatter his ego rather than serve the Office.
…how did a far right Troll know about this scandal before anyone else in the Labour Party hierarchy?
On a very technical level at a Wellington-Central-vegan-cycle-friendly-consent-contract-signed-after- work-function that is chaperoned, you could mount an intellectual argument that Governments can’t and won’t hold themselves to account so giving the Opposition extra questions to do that is a technically principled position to take.
You could mount that argument.