Key’s ability to promote empty aspiration and vacant optimism while the social statistics groan under his draconian neoliberal welfare state reforms is truly one of the great political swindles of the 21st century.
The Fringe Festival is the best season for culture in dear old Auckland. The explosion of brilliant performance art gives a beautiful kick to the start of the year and gets the creative juices flowing.
What is the National Government hiding and who are they protecting by refusing to hold an independent inquest into historic and current child abuse by State services?
In other countries with a sophisticated enough media, such threats by Media Corporates would dominate headlines alongside a critical analysis providing insight into how these media monoliths undermine the quality of our democracy. Unfortunately we live in NZ and have a media with the maturity of your average can of coke.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is getting more media attention by getting dumped from Story than she ever did as a bloody journalist on the network.
Another total failure by Auckland Transport, the ‘Council Controlled Organisation’ that has no actual Council Control over it.
I thought I couldn’t stand the endless navel gazing our Media undertakes as they perform autopisies on our national psyche with screams of ‘why we should hate ourselves’ whenever the bloody All Blacks lose.
On the NZ Herald there was breathless news that Mike Hosking uses a vacuum cleaner to clean his studio with and that some of his colleagues played a prank on him by hiding the aforementioned vacuum cleaner.
A revolutionary hero just turned up at the pearly gates demanding a meeting with the workers – Rest in Revolution Fidel.
With just 12 months until the 2017 election, where are we at and where will we be going into the 2017 election?