Alfred Ngaro never considered resigning for threatening social agencies who criticise National’s failed policies
The shallowness of National’s lies when they get caught being what we always suspect them of being are as craven as they are ugly.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Well come on Judith – are you a crusher or a coward? Will you front for a cannabis debate or not?
…so come on then Judith, are you the great big bad Crusher or are you a Coward? Front the debate and argue your case as to why Cannabis should remain illegal.
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Paula Bennett’s call to tip is National’s new plan to subcontract out lifting wages without raising minimum wage
…so let’s get this fucking straight. Bennett wants to champion a system that is racist, sexist, ageist and xenophobic?
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So what Judith Collins is really saying is that she would have supported Apartheid
It doesn’t matter how unjust the law is, it doesn’t matter that it is needlessly locking up thousands and thousands of NZers in prison, it doesn’t matter if it gives the Police unreasonable search powers, it doesn’t matter that the law is a disgusting hypocrisy, all that matters is that it’s the law no matter how awful that law is.
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BREAKING: Sky News reporting 19 dead at Manchester Explosion
UPDATE: 19 dead, 50 injured
UPDATE: Officials say it is a ‘terrorist’ investigation
UPDATE: Many hurt are young
UPDATE: CNN reporting investigators are looking at possibility of suicide bomber in Manchester explosion
UPDATE: 22 dead, 59 injured
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The 7 surreal moments from Trumps Saudi Arabia visit
It is almost impossible to keep up with the madness of Trump over the last 2 weeks, but his trip to Saudi Arabia has to be the most fucking surreal thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
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If the NZ Herald could stop their SAS sniper death story for a moment and follow up on the Guardian’s real journalism?
…don’t you love how we need overseas journalists to tell NZ what our military do because local NZ media too subservient to do it?
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Whistle blowing scandal at Ministry of Transport grows
That Simon Bridges is just shrugging this of means he’s covering for the Ministry of Transport.
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What if the Greens launched a policy and no one noticed?
If getting a CTU press release on what is now the ugliest Wellington website on the face of the planet is your measure of success, then the Greens did wonderfully well, if you are trying to avoid being relegated to the fourth largest Party after NZ First, not so much.
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So who funds MetService? The weird madness behind the 20 meter wave story
Has everyone seen this 20 meter wave story?