An open letter to the Electoral Commission of NZ
Dear Electoral Commission of NZ.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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I can smell the Uranium from here – the obscenity of ACC owning private prison just got worse
…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.
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Despite golf games, signing away NZ sovereignty for TPPA + mass surveillance – Key doesn’t get his Obama visit
Spare a thought for poor old John Key.
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Strange Rumblings In Carterton: Reflections On Spending My Weekend Campaigning For Ron Mark
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.
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Breaking Sad – Why the meth epidemic is happening in NZ
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.
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Why Judith Collins is the only one happy with Gower’s Poll and why she suspended Ngapari Nui’s voluntary work in Whanganui Prison
…Collins is blowing her dog whistle now for a reason.
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A short history for the media of Stephen Joyce losing his cool
…Joyce has played fast and loose with the rules since he entered Parliament. That he’s continuing it now should surprise no one.
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Labour saves its best present for last – why Little’s Housing plan is a political game changer more than a solution to poverty
In terms of a political game changer, the Labour Party’s final present to NZ on its 100th Birthday of 100 000 affordable homes is about as good as it gets.
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Andrew Little – the quiet revolutionary and the thirst to rebuild a civil society
I’ve personally known 5 Labour Party leaders. Lange, Clark, Goff, Shearer and Cunliffe. Lange wrote columns for the University Magazine I edited, I met Clark dozens of times, I went around to Goff’s house for a BBQ, I used to catch up with Shearer for coffees now and then and I’ve hung out with Cunliffe.
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A threadbare present for 100 year birthday – Labour underwhelms with 1000 state houses
Labour have probably won the next election. The nifty, ‘we will build houses while National will sell them’ is the perfect simplistic juxtaposition that loads emotional attachment where ideology once resided.