The next face of NZs war on cannabis
And yet another person has publicly stepped forward and admitted they are trying to seek medicinal cannabis to ease pain.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Health Minister won’t eat new hospital food on camera and an Environment Minister who won’t swim in Rivers
The eruption that will occur in Auckland as medical staff walk off the job this month is just the beginning and a lacklustre Minister like Coleman will end up looking as out of his depth as Sam Lotu-Ilga did with Corrections.
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Monday will begin the final question of who the Prominent NZer is who has been charged with serious offences
…the manner in which this Prominent NZer has been protected post the allegations first surfacing is as sickening as the charges laid.
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Monday will begin the final question of how much NZers are prepared to love John Key endlessly
Details around what is happening on Monday are shrouded in secrecy, but once those details become public people will demand answers from Key that he won’t be able to squirm away from this time.
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You can’t honestly be surprised the SIS are misusing their new powers already can you?
Once you allow these spooks the power to start secretly spying without judicial oversight, they will immediately find excuses to do it.
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Now is not the time for cowardice on Cannabis reform – why decriminalisation isn’t enough
Decriminalisation is merely begrudging acknowledgement from those authorities in society who have benefited from prohibition that their immoral, racist and destructive war on drugs has been an utter failure.
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The simmering political dialogue, threats to Bennett and butter wouldn’t melt in Hooton’s mouth
There’s no place for political violence or threats, but when you rule over people rather than with them, a Government breeds contempt.
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Dear NZ – can we care about hungry children now they are middle class?
When it was poor brown kids, Muddle Nu Zilind screamed it was the parents fault. Now it’s the white middle classes, notice how quiet those voices have become.
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Why there shouldn’t be any trading over Easter
I think 30 years of rampant neoliberal consumerism has created an ocean of wage slaves who buy sparkly things in sterile malls to numb the hollowness of a culture that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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How Brian Tamaki and Trump are the same
I’m no theologian, but I think speaking to money is about the weirdest, grossest, least spiritual thing anyone pretending to be a Bishop could ever admit to.