Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
The reason National allow children to rot in poverty is because the issue cuts right across one of their greatest neoliberal myths – that society isn’t made up of hegemonic structures and success is a personal achievement.
There is a difference between being crude and joking about rape. When rape is an ongoing crisis that is burning our planet, there’s about as much humour in rape jokes as a stand up gig at Auschwitz.
The only real difference between Hillary and Donald is that Hillary will have planned America’s next war, Donald will bumble into one.
National’s pollster and spin dr, David Farrar, must have come back to National with bad polling numbers because National have made come out with an announcement to cut our over heated and deeply corrupt immigration system by a mere 5000 over two years…
The level of the debate from Trump is “I know you are, you said you are, but what am I”. The Americans Trump is trying to win are just listening for his tone, and his aggressive tone matches their anger and their expectations of how power is wielded.
…the National Party were actively and secretly looking for ways to disqualify the sick and vulnerable from state health care. If they were prepared to do it when euthanasia was illegal in the 1990s, imagine how quickly they will begin to pressure hospitals to start euthanasia as a cost cutting measure if it becomes legal?
The 3 biggest losers from the elections are:
The continuing occupation of Palestine by Apartheid Israel is one of the worst ongoing human rights abuses on the planet, and a human rights activist like Marama protesting while she is on holiday from Parliament should be applauded, not denigrated.
This is the most important political event next to the last remaining budget and the 2017 election because of what its results could do to Labour’s chances of winning Government next year.
The most boring election known to human kind is over, and it’s been a sprawling failure for democracy (barely 40% voted) and it’s been the dullest (nothing much will really change).