BREAKING: What really happened inside Mt Eden Prison
‘Tough on Crime’ Politicians and headline screaming crime porn news media have turned our anger at the pain crime causes into something dark and damaged.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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EXCLUSIVE: Which senior NZ Politician is about to have a Panama Papers scandal eruption?
You heard it here on TDB first.
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Is it a surprise that we have a culture of bullying when we have a PM who thinks touching a waitress on 10 separate occasions is just fun?
Can we expect our children to be better if that is the example we set?
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Road Tolls in Auckland a tax on the poor and dodgy Chinese building isn’t much of a solution
The solution to Auckland’s grotesque infrastructure underfunding is to allow new bonds or fresh funding from central Government. Auckland’s growth has traditionally been suffocated by Wellington and it continues today.
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What are we actually doing in Iraq? The answer will shock you
If you ask a NZer to put their lives in danger for our ‘National Interest’, it better be for honourable and just reasons, not as the price we pay for being inside the 5 eyes club. We have obligations as a global citizen, but do those obligations extend to cleaning up America’s latest failed adventure?
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Gerry Brownlee uses Orlando shooting to justify NZ troops in Iraq
“We’re not insulated from the sort of thing that we saw in Orlando.” – Gerry Brownlee, re NZ extension of troop deployment in Iraq
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All John Key is saying, is give war a chance
We sow the seeds of the next monster with every intervention. This is America’s mess, America cleans it up, we shouldn’t give them the pretence of support for their perverse sense of National Interest which always seems to end up being for Corporate benefit.
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Latest Roy Morgan Poll – National 43% – Labour/Green 42.5%
We report political polls like we report sports results in this country. The MoU forces the media to report on them as a block, this goes in the voters mind from Labour 28-National 49 to Labour-Green 42.5 to National 43. See the impact that makes?
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Homelessness in NZ is a civil emergency – send in the Army!
Nothing sums up the denial of our homelessness crisis quite like the panel on The Nation last weekend. Political Editor of the terribly elitist Spinoff blog Toby Manhire and some Rich Prick from the Rich Prick association sat next to Sue Bradford debating homelessness.
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The lies that National spun to sell 90 day right to sack
For them, it was all about enabling their privilege as employers, their right to sack anyone they like who doesn’t fit in, who is a bit too lippy, who isn’t a trembling broken frightened worker who will do everything they are told.