Simon Bridges is dicking Andrew Little AND Radio NZ around
Simon Bridges is grandstanding over the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill and Andrew Little has gloriously referred to it as being ‘dicked around’.
Martyn Bradbury
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MEDIA WATCH: Oh for God’s sake, there are plenty of good reasons to attack ACT – this isn’t one of them
Newsroom are pretty hit and miss, there are times they lead the agenda in a way that actually lifts the debate and then they do stuff that just comes across like a shit blog.
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Why NZ First are right and the Euthanasia law needs to be a public referendum
By allowing assisted suicide, we open an enormous door that can’t be closed and the entire public need to not only have a say on that, but the decision must be one we agree on because once the media pick up on stories of euthanasia coercion we all need to be responsible and not yell that it’s the politicians fault.
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Waatea News Column: If Jacinda wants to win a second term, she needs to tell us her new 100 day vision
The humiliation of a one term Government or the roots of a political legacy that entrenched the politics of kindness into the foundations of our culture.
Those are the only two options going into election 2020 for her and Labour.
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Dear Andrew Little – there are some really, really, really big problems with your Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill
Dear Andrew Little – you need to have a long hard look at some of these loopholes because you could fly a plane through some of them.
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I don’t want to sound racist about these roaming armed Police Officer Teams b-u-u-u-u-u-u-t
Look, most New Zealanders would agree that when a cop pulls a trigger, you want the best trained cop do it. The truth is that the vast majority of our police are ill trained in using firearms and you don’t want garden variety Mr & Ms Plod getting their guns out of the locked box in their car and getting involved in a shoot out.
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Why mass market TV must be kept and why all the talk of technology utterly misses the point
The public broadcasting square of NZ is critical for our democracy especially as online simply leads us to echo cambers and people who think vaccinations lead to autism.
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12 months till the NZ election – what does the political landscape look like?
Okay, we are 12 months out from the next election, how are the Parties faring, what are their internal dynamics and what possible strategies will they adopt?
What issues will shape the debate and what curveballs might trip them up?
Here is the political landscape going into Election 2020.
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How Faafoi buys MediaWorks TV and saves public broadcasting
If Faafoi was bold, he would buy TV3, gut it and relaunch it as a 24 hour news channel run by TVNZ under the editorial auspices of RNZ.
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The NZDF, the Key administration & the corruption of our intelligence system
…let’s not forget that also in 2011, Key’s Office colluded with the SIS to falsely smear Phil Goff months before the election. Key went on to reward the SIS and GCSB with unlimited power through mass surveillance and a huge increase in budgets.