Why Key is suddenly talking about a land tax
Meanwhile the property speculator boomers laugh and the rich lock Gen X, Y, millennials and the poor out of ever owning a home in their own country.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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What is it we refuse to forget on ANZAC Day?
If we want to respect the glorious dead, then surely it is as the current generation promising the next generation that we won’t ever waste their precious lives for the obscenity of war.
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Dear NZ – remember dirty politics and how ‘it’s just politics’ allowed so many of you to turn a blind eye and vote National?
…listening to National voters defend Key’s record as honest and sincere and trustworthy when this ponytail hair pulling, Tax Haven building, mass surveillance lying, gutter tactics Politician has no moral high ground whatsoever would be amusing if it wasn’t so widespread.
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Peter Dunne’s pathetic cannabis reform
What’s the point in allowing the pharmaceutical industry create expensive cannabis synthetics when the natural product on its own can easily do what the expensive products can’t?
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What Bill English’s Big Brother Data Sharing will really do
Allowing other agencies access to false information only spreads that false information, it won’t correct it.
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China reminds us that economically depending upon a totalitarian Communist regime has some downsides
Key has been shown up for the smoke and mirror deal maker he really is. After putting all our cows in one Beijing Paddock, the meltdown of dairy intensification has simply made the farms China wanted cheaper for them to buy up.
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Let’s remind ourselves how Oravida are exploiting our water again
The close ties between the National Party and Chinese business has compromised our political system.
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Dear Z Energy – you pimp petrol, you aren’t in a position to lecture on morality
I think Wicked Campers are ugly and some of the offensive rape culture garbage sprayed on the side of them demands creative vandalism whenever one comes across their vile shuttles.
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside Internal Party Research – the dangers for Key the clues for Labour
Looking at some internal Party Research this week, there was much that made for interesting reading.
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Are National Party voters the new Trump supporters of the South Pacific?
That a right wing money trader should exploit the power of Office shouldn’t shock or surprise us, but the widespread devotion to him by so many should.