Just when you couldn’t despise Auckland Transport or Corrections anymore than you currently do
Just when you couldn’t despise Auckland Transport or Corrections or anymore than you currently do, look at these obscenities to good taste and decency.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Questions the media should immediately ask the new Corrections Minister
While the media suddenly care about prisons, let’s ask Louise three simple questions…
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Remember, cycling is NOT white middle class privilege
There are 3 rules of blogging. Never mock vegans, crossfitters or cyclists.
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Gareth Morgan to run in Mt Albert? How Labour loses an electorate
National’s shrewd decision to stand back and not run in Mt Albert has more potential to hurt Labour than first thought.
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Mt Albert by-election decision – First smart play by English since becoming Leader
After creating a Cabinet who will be used against him, the decision by Bill English to not stand in the Mt Albert by-election next year is his first shrewd decision.
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For those hysterically judging Russia for hacking US election – here’s a list of all the Governments the CIA have overthrown in first 50 years
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan of Russia or Putin in any way shape or form, but when compared to the last 50 years of the CIA, having to put up with some whining that a Russian Agent hacked the Democratic Party’s emails seems pretty lame.
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English’s cabinet reshuffle a noose for his own neck while Matthew Hooton rubs his greasy mitts with glee
English’s cabinet reshuffle is bewilderingly dangerous for Bill’ longevity as leader.
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When will NZers wake up to the magnitude of damage National’s immigration policy has caused us?
The Left and Progressive movement must wake the fuck up to what National’s neoliberal free market immigration policy has actually done in 8 years and Bernard Hickey’s must read column today helps add numbers to urgency of that change…
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Catherine Delahunty and Stefan Browning step down – Green Party renewal
Catherine Delahunty and Stefan Browning stepping down from the Greens at the next election is a mixed blessing and speaks to the new shifting power blocs in the Green Party conclave.
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Did the NZ Government just have 2 Terabyte’s of information hacked?
An astounding claim late this week from Kim Dotcom that appeared on a news blog that few will have heard of has been ignored by the mainstream corporate media in New Zealand. The claim is that 2 terabytes of information has been hacked or ‘leaked’ from the National Party and that it will appear in the 2017 election.