Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
We are seeing a complete break down of our crucial social services. The spiteful harvest of National’s draconian welfare reforms are coming home to roost and NZers should feel ashamed of what it says about us as a country.
…our capacity to deny the realities of our environment and the social injustice the current status quo is creating is as bewildering as the mainstream media’s blindspot when it comes to discussing these pressing issues.
Hone and Annette have confirmed on TV3’s excellent ‘The Hui’ this morning that they are fighting back to bring the MANA movement back into the 2017 election.
To scream at the religion and blame it for being incompatible with us as justification to continue the western foreign policy that is actually breeding this type of deformed schism is just intellectually dishonest.
It’s interesting to see the muted reaction to the terrible killing of British Labour MP Jo Cox. The killer has been connected to a far right Christian pro-apartheid group yet the right aren’t calling it terrorism by Christianity.
The problem is that the average National voter doesn’t care if policy actually stands up to scrutiny, they hate left wing people and values and the perception that it somehow damages them is all a National voter cares about. That the policy works is secondary to the spite it might cause.
Enabling parents to be able to spend those precious first weeks with their newborn is the best start to life, that this Government can’t see that speaks volumes of what their values really are.
Some loyal Nats are getting pretty tired of Max Key being the prime minister’s companion on everything important or otherwise and being presented by his father to the cameras at every opportunity, but are silenced by all this sensitivity around social media ‘bullying’.
We have so many bloody pressing issues on this planet, preventing people from using the bathroom they feel comfortable in is such a mean spirited petty bigotry.
Winston’s handling of this is to the right of the Labour Party so it’s an issue he has all to himself, but the simplicity of his solutions are just pantomime and make him look a bit daft rather than critical and stance taking.