Ummm, shouldn’t Gerry Brownlee be doing what Gerry Brownlee does best?
So Gerry Brownlee is now an apologist for Australian torture camps that the Australian’s have walked away from on Manus Island?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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How National destroy the new Government through Select Committees over the next 3 years
National will call on massive public engagement from their voters and their financial backers to slow down the Select Committee process and scream about democracy being under attack if they aren’t allowed to have every Farmer and rich property owner in front of the Select Committee to complain about any new law.
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Jacinda dodges a TPPA bullet – elites search for next economic trigger to sabotage new Government
What the Right wanted more than anything was Jacinda to march off to APEC trumpeting resistance so that when it fell over, they could blame her for the impending economic slump. What these forces desperately want is to spook the market so interest rates go up which would give every NZer with a mortgage an extra couple of hundred dollars a week in mortgage repayments for Christmas.
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National crying wolf over claims NZ First legal action amounts to bad faith
The outrageous manner in which public servants alerted their political masters to a situation this large and for those Senior Ministers who have a history of leaking personal details like this to the media to get away with an obvious abuse of power demands justice.
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Why yesterdays meltdown by new Government was so much worse than first thought
And yes, that’s me getting into a twitter argument with the ghost of a fictitious tweeting cat, but even me arguing with the ghost of a dead cat is less stupid than what the new Government did yesterday.
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New Government meltdown on first day
National might just be the greatest Opposition ever if this is the level of the governments competence.
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How dare National claim an ‘erosion of democracy’
If you are stupid enough to believe this bullshit, you are either a coma patient or a Trump supporter.
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In defence of Guy Fawkes – let’s take it back for the Activist Left
You can take my sparkler out of my dead cold hands.
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Isn’t it time we replaced Tim Groser for Helen Clark as US Ambassador?
Wouldn’t Helen Clark be a far greater ambassador to the US to protect NZs interests than Groser?
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What Winston is actually doing with Russia?
I’ve said it many times, this Government will be far more radical than the corporate mainstream media pundits are claiming. Having spoken to some of those who were part of the behind the scenes negotiations, I believe this Government is deadly serious about reforming and changing Capitalism in this country.