Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
What many on the Left, and certainly within the political punditry, don’t appreciate or understand is that Labour’s victory last year was set in motion a year earlier by Matt McCarten’s ‘Big Tent’ strategy that aimed at expanding Labour’s voter base while eliminating National’s support partners.
The horror of WINZ is once again laid bare with policy so draconian and counter productive, you just have to label it evil…
At their Summer Policy Conference this weekend, The Green Party announced that they would ban any and all kickbacks for their MPs, meaning Yoga Corporations, Big Tofu and The Bicycle Industrial Complex will be outraged!
So the drive to make this cheaper means there is no personal contact point to pressure compliance, it opens the data up to being used by more powerful state agents, allows the information to be hacked and leaves the poor out. Combine this Wellington Bureaucrat Fuckwittery together and you have what I believe will be the worst return data for a Census on record.
Both the economy and the environment need each other to survive in a complex society, but if both are now failing and pulling the other down, new paradigms have to be imagined and imagined soon.
National can’t hit Jacinda, but they can sell a narrative that Labour’s Union mates are holding the country to ransom. Hooton is well versed in these tactics and as motorists get stuck in longer and longer traffic jams during industrial action, he quietly siphons off more voters for National.
What percentage Māori blood Simon or Paula have is so far away from any semblance of contextualised importance it is insanity that we’e had to waste breath upon it.
These are enormous changes that should be leading every news headline on the planet, the petty pointless shit we are squabbling over while the planet actually melts before our eyes is testament as to why our species can’t save itself.
…it doesn’t matter of you are right wing or left wing, we can all agree that a Human Rights Review Tribunal that doesn’t have the money to investigate Police for abuses of power is a complete failure of process and accountability.
Judith, Paula and Amy – Simon will be Bridges over troubled daughters.