UK Snap Election Called
New Zealanders will wake up this morning to news that the UK Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a snap election.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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A water pipeline under a Kiwi sanctuary in a National Park? How much wrongness can you get in one idea?
When this story first surfaced last week I thought that I must have caught the wrong end of the stick…
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The Big White Lie – how our racist prison system is killing us and why Chester Borrows might be the solution
As a country we have been manipulated by lynch mob grief manipulators, ‘get-tough-on-crime’ politicians and a crime porn media more interested in ratings than sensible public debate. This vile cocktail of anger and vengeance have helped build a prison empire whose cost was so large that we embarked upon the private prison experiment to try and lower costs.
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What response to SBWs rugby jersey really says about NZ
We are a nation who demands that our bread and circus occurs without ever having to know how the bread was baked or circus made.
We are blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to why are attention is being distracted in the first place.
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Why I have to boycott the Poppy this ANZAC Day
There’s nothing to commemorate when we hide our war crimes, because the very honour we seek to respect can not stand while we turn a blind eye. To stand at attention during the Dawn Service with this disgrace hanging over our armed services makes us hypocrites, and the men and women who have died in our conflicts deserve better than that.
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Geoffrey Palmer, Bernard Hickey & the housing crisis National deny
What Hickey fails to accept is that the Millennial and Gen X cynical and jaded response to the obvious corruption of the current political settings is actually incredibly legitimate. When 121 MPs own 295 properties between them, the entire political class are as corrupt as the system itself. To harry Millennial’s and Gen Xers for our lack of political engagement in a corrupt system misses that no political party are offering any real changes in the neoliberal property market.
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It’s official, the Sensible Sentencing Trust are a racist lynch mob – welcome to our casual KKK
With just one press release, the Sensible Sentencing Trust have managed to go from the screaming lynch mob of muddle Nu Zilind to the racist screaming lynch mob of muddle Nu Zilind.
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The MetService that cried cyclone
You can’t tell your largest City that they are about to be hit by a huge storm that doesn’t eventuate because the next time it happens, they won’t believe you and that matters because we know from global warming that these extreme weather events are going to occur more and more often and if you have a cynical population who don’t believe the warnings, that will cost lives.
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How is this MOAB any better than a Sarin gas attack?
Trump’s gotten a taste for bombing and the cheering corporate media that goes with it…
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My front row seat to a miscarriage of justice – the Colin Craig vs Jordan Williams verdict
I was involved in this defamation trial so was front row for most of this and it very much shook my faith in our Jury system. When I sat down in front of that Jury I suddenly realised that for most of them this was the most important thing any of them had ever been involved in.
Which in of itself was deeply concerning.