Can Labour resist the Prison Industrial Complex?
It takes far more money to heal human beings than punish them, but the results are far healthier for society as a whole.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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New Government must burn MSD scum to the ground
The new Government must use napalm as a disinfectant to cleanse our public service and damn the squeals from the PSA – it’s time to take back our welfare system from the neoliberal scum who with sadistic glee hurt the most poor amongst us. There can be no negotiation with cancer.
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The Hobbit strikes back! Huge win for NZ Actors & workers
The Hobbit fight was nasty, needless and spiteful. Rectifying it isn’t just symbolic, it is righteous and will actually help the industry and strengthen it.
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Who is more irrelevant? Feminist icon Jordan Williams or Musical God Max Key?
Which shit stain is more irrelevant – Jordan or Max? I think this one could be a tie.
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Why the new Government is far more revolutionary than many suspect
The first hundred days is just a start, it won’t be revolution but it sure as hell will be a rapid evolution and those who put this Government together in the background understood the transformative possibility this all could bring about.
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Time for food made domestically to be subsidised for New Zealanders?
I believe it’s time NZers should be able to buy their own produce grown in this country at a price cheaper than can be sold offshore because as domestic consumers we have already paid the environmental and monopoly costs of that produce.
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Ummmm, let me get this straight, if there’s a fuel tax, you’ll stop driving in Auckland?
Herald readers are revolting over plans to raise a fuel tax in Auckland, and they are saying they will leave the city…
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Crazy shit the right wing are saying about the new Government
Those on the Right claiming we are now a communist state don’t understand the words ‘communist’, ‘state’, ‘we’, ‘now’, ‘are’ or ‘a’.
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BREAKING: National ordered to pay $600 000 after losing Eminem copyright case
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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The 5 images that best sum up NZs new Government
The magnitude of change that this new government actually represents hasn’t sunk into the mainstream media yet. Most of them believed National would win, hence their bitter shock and they have barely caught their breath on what Labour, NZ First and the Greens truly represent. While they stumble into comprehension of actually how far this new Government intends to go, here are the 5 images that sum up the change best.