Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
A journalist should ask Judith Collins if ‘Hacking Team’ are working for the new Gang Intelligence Centre. Their reputation in helping authoritarian regimes identify activists is appalling.
To try and claim that the flag change isn’t political is Orwellian double speak at its most obvious.
So we have a political operative with all the business ethics of a drug cartel teaming up with a candidate so emerged in the Dirty Politics around using Len’s affair for political gain it is extraordinary that he has the gall to offer himself up for Auckland’s mayoralty again.
The NZDF didn’t make a mistake, they were attempting to discredit Stephenson rather than engage with his accusations that the NZDF was culpable in breaching the Geneva contention.
Calling ones elders out on their priviledge is no easy task, but to claim boomer priviledge is somehow sacred and criticising it unfair can not match up with the reality that 30 000 of your peers Comrade stopped the apsirations of 206 000 of my peers last week.
We can not hate on Stephie or Max for who their father is, that would be beneath the level of debate we on the Left try to keep when debating politics, but what we can loath is their privilege and the vacuous ‘celebrity’ NZ news that keeps Max in the headlines.
Goff makes a point that many of us have been making some time as we grapple with affordable housing in Auckland – take back the Golf Courses!
…seeing as Maori women make up over 58% of the prison population, I’m amazed Josie wasn’t tasered and then fatally wounded in a Police chase.
The hatred older NZers from wealthy suburbs have towards younger & poorer Aucklanders on display at the Town Hall meeting was disgraceful.
By making it clear he won’t stand again, Key would trigger a by-election if he sacked McCully.