Gun buy back is a success but has generated a toxic sludge
Police should look to write warnings and destroy any guns found rather than a punitive arrest and prosecution model so as to not enflame events that could spin out of control.
Martyn Bradbury
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2010 to 2019 – The only decade news review that matters
It’s funny seeing many NZ outlets reviewing the past decade when the vast majority of them are incapable of reviewing the very week they are publishing in.
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List of stories media are fastidiously ignoring right now
The need to not focus on those issues is part of the need to keep citizens blind to the frontline of the existential crisis we find ourselves in at the turn of the decade.
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My submission to the Justice Committee looking into low voter turn out at local elections
There needs to be a wholesale re-investment into Local Government so that instead of being a faux democratic choice, citizens actually feel like their vote means something rather than an act masquerading as democracy for the illusion of legitimacy.
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The new Australian marketing video with Kylie Minogue
The new Australian tourism video has just been released on social media and it’s very funny..
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Waatea News Column: The 5 big political issues for Maori in 2019
2019 was a difficult year politically with the promise of much but the delivery of little.
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Dear Everyone, 66-year-old Canterbury bricklayer Colin Wilson has every right to his activism – don’t fall for the trap
…comparing your book being turned around to witch burnings, segregated voting rights and domestic violence manages to make Trump sound modest and Prince Andrew look well grounded.
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MEDIA WATCH: Can a Spinoff conspiracy destroy Jacinda Ardern in 2020 and Andrea Vance’s ‘apology’ has to be read to be believed
TRIGGER WARNING: If you are a sensitive soul, you should pass this story by. But if you like your violence visceral, then strap in because I’m about to give The Spinoff a good old fashioned hands tied behind their back pistol whipping.
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After the meth hysteria, why would State tenants trust Housing NZ with mass surveillance? How to destroy their sensors!
Well, well, well. What do we have here? The mass surveillance state intruding into the homes of state tenants… Surveillance…