Elizabeth Rata Dame Honour Sparks Education Backlash
Elizabeth Rata has been made a dame. Critics see more than an honour. They see the Government rewarding a curriculum agenda that walks back bicultural education.
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Barry Soper’s King’s Birthday Honour Is a Media Farce
Barry Soper gets a King’s Birthday gong for journalism. Martyn sees something else: a warning label for what happens when bitterness devours a career.
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Jim Grenon Media Influence and the Batchelor Case
Jim Grenon tried to keep his role funding Julian Batchelor’s failed TVNZ defamation case out of the news. The judge said no. That matters.
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Budget 2026 Debt Monsters Are a Right-Wing Scam
The Right cuts revenue, creates the hole, then screams about debt monsters. Martyn says Budget 2026 is austerity theatre designed to protect private wealth.
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Election 2026 Enrolment Countdown on TDB
TDB’s Election 2026 countdown is not an Electoral Commission ad. It is an independent media project to help readers enrol, vote and fight billionaire narratives.
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Mike Smith Climate Case Exposes Big Polluter Farce
They call it parliamentary sovereignty. Martyn calls it what it looks like: retrospective law to shield big polluters from a citizen using the courts.
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Shane Jones Weakens Oil Polluter Clean-up Liability
The culture war screams about trans people, Māori and vaccines. Meanwhile Shane Jones is making it easier for oil companies to leave taxpayers with the clean-up bill.
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Trump Cuba Military Action: Another Distraction War?
Iran was supposed to be the distraction. Now Cuba is suddenly in the frame. Trump’s empire politics are starting to look less like strategy and more like panic.
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The Bradbury Group Turns 1 Fighting Polluter Power
The Bradbury Group turns one because the old show was punished for saying the quiet parts out loud: Israel, think tanks, media power and big polluter influence.
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Budget 2026 Exposes This Hard-Right Government
Banks get a token levy. Public servants get the axe. State tenants get higher rents. Budget 2026 is not balance, it is class warfare dressed as discipline.
