$50 per week won’t solve student debt blackhole
Labour should be embarrassed by this meaningless policy.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Is it time to end big Dairy in New Zealand?
…should we start asking is it time to end big Dairy in NZ?
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Labour poach Vernon Small & Alex Tarrant as Press Secretaries
At a time when their communications strategies are desperately falling apart, picking up two of the heavyweights of the Journalist world is a bloody smart move.
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Genter, Little & Twyford follow Jacinda’s leadership – so why am I still nervous about new Government?
Julie Anne Genter, Andrew Little and Phil Twyford have followed Jacinda’s political leadership over Manus Island and have each challenged the status quo and demanded more.
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So white people in NZ are the real bludgers?
Poverty impacts everyone and state aid is a necessity, not an enabler. The sooner white NZ starts understanding that bludger stereotypes undermine us all, the sooner we can start making real progress towards combating poverty.
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How ill prepared are the Greens for Government? This ill prepared…
The leak today of an internal strategy paper is so woeful and concerning, it’s like catching your Surgeon checking on how to do your operation on wikipedia.
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Compare new Government action and National’s reaction
In every example, National’s response is bitter, angry, resentful and spiteful. On every issue they have spent 9 years making worse all they have as a response to the solution is more of the poisonous thinking that helped exacerbate the problem in the first place.
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Boat People Terror Alert Apricot (Why Jacinda is spoiling for a fight with Australia)
The vast majority of New Zealanders resent the way Australia treat us and finally having a Government who will stand up to them is actually going to resonate with many voters.
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Being economically occupied by China, politically owned by America and what EVERYONE is missing about how to defeat TPPA
We can stamp our feet like the Green Party and the Unions have and throw a tantrum and just refuse to actually engage with the process OR we can see this as an opportunity to directly influence our political and economic independence.
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What will hit first? Economic armageddon or Environmental apocalypse?
Since the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis, all the developed world has done is kick the day of market reckoning down the road with more and more money printing. At some point this band-aid won’t be able to stem the pressure building and it will rupture with a backlash that will make the depression look like a week without pocket money.