Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Our housing crisis is a market failure because it’s been left up to the free market. National are in utter denial because they have built their Government on selling off their social obligations to others.
In reaction and response to news that the New Zealand Government has gotten a bit uneasy about decidedly sub-standard Chinese steel being put into our own domestic infrastructure projects (and accompanied by fraudulent safety standard certification, no less), the PRC is apparently considering raising punitive “reprisal tariffs” on Kiwi primary produce exports in order to force our government to move to protect Chinese interests rather than our own.
The latest UMR internal Polling has shown a massive drop in support for Key.
When you include a justice system that is racist and imprisons Maori offenders disproportionately I think we have passed a threshold for a determined #BrownLivesMatter campaign to shake Pakeha NZ out of its ignorant John Key trance.
Dear Electoral Commission of NZ.
…laugh it up NZers, you’ve allowed a corrupt private corporation with appalling human rights to make money out of incarceration along with Government Departments and that corrupt corporation also make money out of nuclear weapons.
Spare a thought for poor old John Key.
Over this weekend just gone, I was deployed alongside more than a dozen members of New Zealand First’s new, nascent youth wing into the Wairarapa electorate. The mission was simple: train and upskill a group of ardent young people in preparation for the necessary exigencies of what promises to be a thrilling 2017 campaign.
I think one of the fundamental misunderstandings by journalists and politicians over the new P epidemic is that they don’t understand the economics and power struggles at work.
…Collins is blowing her dog whistle now for a reason.