Key’s Parliamentary Tantrum
We need the Prime Minister to be a leader, not a spoilt man-child.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The last suffocation of journalism – the media mega merger
This is a failure of the free market the same way the free market has failed housing in Auckland.
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Key slags Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Mojo Mathers in childish tantrum to deflect Panama Papers
At best his response yesterday was as sophisticated as ‘I know you are, you said you are, but what am I’?
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Did Police give Slater ‘mates rates’?
If explaining is losing, Slater is chewing off both sides of his mouth today as he publishes 10 000 word blogs trying to explain why he broke the law.
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Why John Key and Patrick Gower just ‘don’t get it’ about the Panama Papers
Gower is on TV telling everyone that there is ‘no king hit’ in the Panama Papers. That suggests an incredible miscomprehension by Mr Gower. The ‘king hit’ is that we are a Tax Haven, Gower’s inability to understand anything that can’t be splurged out in a 30 second sound bite is a limitation we shouldn’t allow cloud our vision of what the Panama Papers have shown us.
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John Key’s New Zealand – 5.7% unemployment, 105 000 domestic violence call outs and 80 000 hungry children
Beneficiaries swell the number of homeless unable to find a place to live alongside working class and middle class Gen X + Y and all Key can do is build tax havens.
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The political question NZers need to ask themselves in wake of new Panama Paper revelations
Claiming it is ‘legally compliant’ means nothing if the crooks and the elites write the bloody laws!
Past Key’s sophistry, the simple political question for NZers to ask themselves is this…
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Latest Panama Papers show Key is lying – NZ is a Tax Haven
Key is going to have a difficult day pretending he hasn’t built a tax haven.
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The conflict between the Government’s mass surveillance legislation and their new cybersecurity unit
The announcement of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) with its new $22million budget is being sold to NZ as some sort of big cuddly Government Department that protects NZ business from cyber attack.
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Matthew Hooton and the Panama Papers – why does he sound so frightened?
This week is looking very difficult for John Key and his right wing rich mates. Mass surveillance lies didn’t wake sleepy hobbits up. Dirty Politics didn’t wake sleepy hobbits up. Looks like Key building Tax Havens and getting caught might just wake them up.