Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Labour will build houses while National will sell them is as clear cut a political message as the infamous Kiwi-Iwi Billboards Don Brash used. It’s a simple juxtaposition that highlights the political values and uses National’s as a weakness.
McClay’s extraordinary new version of events released yesterday is his fourth attempt now to explain what he knew about Chinese threats of a trade war and when.
Now the big external polls are starting to show what has quietly been happening for months now, watch as National prepare for a blood letting over the Summer holidays. As the Polls continue to melt for National, Judith Collins will start making moves.
…that’s right folks, NZ didn’t bribe Saudi Businessman Al-Khalaf for reneging on live sheep exports in order to gain a free trade deal, oh no, apparently Al-Khalaf was actually doing NZ a huge favour by saving our ‘sheep crisis’.
We seem to be allergic in this country to debating our ridiculous immigration and migration policy.
NZ faces some very rough economic times if China decides to make an example of us for questioning the quality of their mass produced cheapest capitalism model exports they have dumped upon us, and the NZ public seems ill aware of the ramifications.
We have underfunded CYFs and that’s why it fails to stop children getting killed, privatising most of the Ministry and giving it a new name is like wallpapering a pedophiles house and calling it a kindergarten.
After dropping my beloved daughter off at school, I walk home via Krd in Auckland. The coffee is good, the people are my kind of people and the bustle of the day carries a momentum with it that puts a skip in ones step.
The surprise and angry denunciation of the Maori Party for taking the stance they did suggests to me that most NZers, many Labour Party supporters included, don’t fully appreciate the naked manipulation of power Helen conducted to maintain her leadership. Rather than challenging the centre’s ignorance, she gave into it.
We need to ban foreign ownership, bring in a capital gains tax and build 100 000 affordable houses for first time buyers and 10 000 state homes to be built in Auckland alongside an urban intensification to solve this Housing Crisis.