Stare how we treat disabled beneficiaries in the face
This is how the neoliberal welfare state that Metiria stood up against treats the disabled…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Why National’s Bootcamps are 10 times worse than you thought they were
We know our justice system is racist, this new policy is weighted heavily against Maori who would fail many of the set criteria being used. All this will do is put even more young Maori in prison.
We should be horrified at policy so openly racist.
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National’s response to mental health is a sick sad joke that should rule them out of Government
All National have announced is 17 new right wing social experiments to try and fix the dysfunction they are exacerbating by using solutions that are the problem!
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10 Important stories about National’s political agenda that got lost in Jacindamania and Metiria’s assassination
With all the heat, noise and media attention on Jacindamania and Metiria’s political assassination, important news stories that really spell out the deficiencies and hollowness of National’s political agenda are being lost in the noise.
Here are the top 10.
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Nuclear war threats and Nazi rallies? That’s 205 days of President Trump
Trump is building a third electorate, alienated culturally and broken economically by Democrats and Republicans and fuelled on racist radicalism. All he needs now is some external threat to manipulate and demand total obedience from.
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Bootcamps? National want to bring back counter-productive bootcamps? No wonder we have such a high youth suicide rate
Bootcamps don’t help those forced through them, bootcamps don’t stop our insane prison population, bootcamps make angry National supporters feel good.
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My biggest regret about the Metiria meltdown, where the Greens must go now and shout out to James Shaw
The Greens are the only political party who are genuinely offering the largest chunk of the missing million voters – beneficiaries – meaningful policy of $180 each week increases in welfare.
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The madness of National stealing water for Dairy Farmers, economic meltdown and the looming environmental catastrophe
Watching Steven Joyce doing the weekend current affairs circuit describing Labour’s water tax on farmers as economic self mutilation and denying criticisms that National have stolen and subsidised water for their Dairy Farmer mates is evidence of a Government too self interested to think outside their special interests.
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Can we pause and consider what just happened to Metiria back there?
Metiria’s crime was not that she had told the truth about needing to game the draconian neoliberal welfare system, but that she had the audacity to tell her story with her chin up in defiance at the injustice of that system rather than the self-shaming we all demand from anything that is attached to the virgin sacrificing sacredness of ‘taxpayer money’.
In NZ we accept the dignity of the broken, but never the dignity of the resistant.
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Kennedy Graham & David Clendon can not be allowed back into the Party
You don’t get to pull the suicide bomber stance they took by publicly resigning and then try to come back in.