National try to play down small turn out for National Launch
Word has it 2500 chairs were put out, 3900 tickets issued, but less than 1200 turned up.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The electorates to watch this election
There are a number of electorates which are crucial in this election and could show some deep changes in the NZ political landscape.
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Middlemore Hospital full: Thank you National Party
At some stage NZers have to acknowledge that National’s much vaunted managerial skills are all smoke and mirror bullshit and that Labour’s investment of $19billion over four years into our social infrastructure is a far better response to health underfunding than 2 big mac combos worth of tax cuts each week.
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Compare policy Labour launched today compared to National
Labour announcing a vast new subsidy to keep health care as cheap as possible while National rage against freedom campers.
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How Trump could impact the NZ election within 5 weeks
Trump’s haphazard lunacy could trigger a market correction which would damage our economy before the election.
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What everyone seems to be missing about the why of ‘Jacindamania’
Jacindamania isn’t going away because what Jacinda is projecting as a leader is real emotional connection to an empathy that voters are desperate to feel.
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Brothers & Sisters – It’s time to pull out of Afghanistan & bring SAS home
A new Government in NZ should adopt a very different leadership on the foreign affairs stage and symbolic gestures like bringing our SAS home and pulling out off Afghanistan to demand action for peace would be a good start.
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Another month, another GCSB lie and more illegal behaviour
It just keeps getting worse doesn’t it?
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The 5 things the PREFU told us about NZ economy
The mainstream narrative of the budget surplus and future warnings for the economy that were revealed in last weeks PREFU were sold to voters as ‘no room for election lolly scramble’. There was much that the mainstream media wilfully ignored in the PREFU.
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Councillor Efeso Collins is 100% right on Easter Trading
I back my good friend and hopefully future leader of NZ one day, Councillor Efeso Collins, in his righteous smack down of Easter trading laws in Auckland on The AM Show this morning.