The difference between what Jacinda and Bill can give Winston
Jacinda can offer Winston legacy, Bill can offer him baubles. What Winston chooses will become his political epitaph.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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People calling for National to be the Government because they got most Party vote don’t understand MMP
It doesn’t matter that you got the largest Party vote, what matters is if you can get 51% in Parliament, if you can’t do that, then you can’t pass legislation.
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Election 2017 Winners, losers & biggest issues
In 2014, NZers shrugged over dirty politics & mass surveillance lies & voted in National to protect their speculative property bubble wealth, so as a progressive, to be where we are with Labour + Greens + NZ First being the majority, that’s a major victory.
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How to negotiate a Labour-Green-NZ First Government
Negotiating a Government requires extreme skill and the way you start will be the way you run.
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How did Paula Bennett get your phone number?
Seeing as Paula Bennett has a history of abusing her position to get personal information of beneficiaries and making them public, how did she get people’s phone numbers to text them?
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MSD Staff use fake names to hide from scrutiny for their cruel policy
The very first thing the Labour Party needs to do is push for mass sackings within the Public Service so that these sadists can be flushed out of the system. Yes the policy is abusive but this is a toxic culture problem as well.
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Oh so there was Kauri being dug at location of oil pipeline leak
After original claims that Kauri poachers were involved in damaging Auckland’s oil line as ‘fake news’ MPI have admitted that there were Kauri poachers in the area…
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Finally someone is actually investigating National and their Chinese connections
The National Government are as dependent on their Chinese friends as the entire economy now has become.
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Government hides DHB Debt in outrageous move
National have done everything to hide how underfunded our health system has become, and look at this tactic…
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Malnutrition rates double in NZ – what does that say about us as a people?
Our neoliberal cultural mythology states that if you succeed you do so as an individual so all your success is your own, likewise if you fail that’s all your fault as well.