The 4 reasons why KiwiBuild is an enormous failure
So, how many Government Ministers does it take to build 1000 KiwiBuild Houses?
Martyn Bradbury
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If Paula Bennett is National’s answer to the cannabis issue, what the hell was the question?
By selecting Paula Bennett as their spokesperson on cannabis, National have clearly singled they have no wish to seriously debate the issue and are simply going to do everything in their power to degrade it into the prehistoric fear mongering debate of yesteryear.
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Waatea News Column: This is America !
Beyond the rushed judgements and our need to see the worst in the other, we have a cultural landscape lacking in basic kindness and dignity. In the hyper critical environment of social media where hot takes and lack of all facts leaves us with little more to go on than ill judged opinions and easy anger, we are becoming nothing more than a baying lynch mob.
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It’s going to take more than Jacinda’s kindness to combat inequality in NZ
While Jacinda is in Britain trying to suggest a free trade deal with NZ will somehow make the cluster fuck of Brexit somehow easier for Theresa May, the latest inequality numbers are out and they show a society horribly distorted by wealth…
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Bridges bashes beneficiaries & reminds us how difficult change will be
The truth is that welfare needs to be dramatically increased, sanctions dumped and moves towards a universal basic income adopted. That is a truth Simon and the National Party will die in a ditch to prevent because they know that if the poor actually benefited positively from welfare, they would start voting rather than recoiling from the process in the way they do now.
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SIS saw Keith Locke as a threat since he was a child – who is the real threat here?
Since when could a man of peace like Keith Locke be considered a threat and continue to be classified as a threat because he speaks out against the unchecked power of the Secret Intelligence Service?
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Is the NZ media coverage of British tourists embarrassing yet?
Beyond the petty joy of the daily schadenfreude of breathless media updates on rudeness, littering, minor theft and children brandishing verbal threats of handing out the bash, there is a deep seated resentment towards tourists by the locals that kept this story alive well beyond it’s initial 15 minutes of Nek Minit infamy.
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The Liberal Agenda – Te Papa Gallipoli: The Scale Of Our War
It’s an important exhibit to attend because it shows us how far we have yet to go in being honest about our history and being able to distill truth and wisdom from that honesty.
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MEDIA WATCH: Gillette – the best a progressive can get?
I was personally pretty cynical towards the Gillette advert and wrote it off as corporate woke wash, but watching in disbelief at Roastbusters wanting to launch a music career this week forces me to put that cynicism aside and acknowledge the deep need for the message Gillette is pushing.
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Hooton hears a what? National and their Karel Sroubek text hypocrisy
…the hypocrisy of National demanding transparency over innocuous text messages when they did everything in their power to hide their text messages when in power would be funny if the media weren’t feeding this double standard.