Unemployment jumps to 5.7%
More people are being squashed into a job market that doesn’t exist, more migrants are moving to NZ and our unemployment rate has jumped from 5.4% to 5.7%.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Weldon kicked out of TV3 and how Scout covered it
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Nick Smith – when a crisis is really just a challenge
Nick Smith, the man who promised 500ha of crown land to build houses and only found 25ha, is telling us that it’s just a silly challenge and not a crisis.
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Prime Ministers Lawyer gets caught lobbying for no investigation into trusts that benefits PM & media shrug – what’s wrong with our News?
The quality of news media at stuff and NZ Herald have managed to get worse as every month passes. The clickbait rules that the journalists now have to play by have denigrated news to a pitiful level and there seems to be very little pushback.
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Shit just got real if you are throwing your lawyer under a bus – Key shoots his money man live on Radio
Key buried his own lawyer so far down, Ken Whitney’s forgotten what sunlight means.
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Can Trump win the Presidency? It depends how many white men really hate women
If Trump faces off against Hillary for the Presidency, the issue that seals it for him could have little to do with a fence along Mexico or intolerance of Muslims, it could well be a pent up misogyny the likes of which we have never seen before.
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Why a political revolution in 2023 is the only way house prices will fall
The reason this will all change is because millennials, Gen Y and X are waking up to the scam they’ve been served up and the intergenerational theft that has allowed it to happen. Politics stops being some disconnected thing when you bear the brunt of it.
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Will Bernie Sanders supporters really vote for a corporate friend of the military industrial complex like Hillary Clinton?
I suspect that what is happening on the democratic side of the American election will have more of an impact as to whether or not Trump wins than a Republican contested convention.
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To the barricades Kiwis – Key is letting a filthy US War ship into our waters – rage and prepare to fight now!
In November this year, an American warship will be entering Auckland Harbour for the first time in 32 years for the 75th anniversary of the NZ Navy. I remember protesting against the last warship visit when I was ten years old and I’m damned if I’ll simply sit quietly by while National and their corrupt followers cheerlead the American empire back into our waters!
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NZs worst employer – AFFCO Talleys – is butchering worker rights – again
News that NZs worst employer, AFFCO Talleys, are now trying to kill off any social media criticism of their despicable work practices, union busting and appalling work and safety record is just the latest round of this disgusting company gleefully crushing worker rights.