The poll results last night are the worst possible outcome for pundits because no one has any clear idea which one is right – TVNZ uses 50% landline & 50% cell phones and that methodology suggests something very different to TV3s 75% landline/25% online poll.
The neutering of the Union movement from the radical right wing agendas of the 1990s followed by the nothing Helen Clark did for workers, followed by the subdued fear under the Key has left most Union Leaders too shy to actually demand anything so the explosion of activism from the base has finally put real muscle back into negotiations.
Gen X, (the generation who always get ignored), roared back into life last week by reminding everyone they are a huge target market with a ratings bonanza that has helped ‘Chernobyl’ become the highest rated series ever!
If the SIS doesn’t ‘react’ to threats wtf was their program to spy on Muslims in Mosques?
The vast, vast, vast number of Kiwis who don’t have a Herald subscription won’t hear this story and other media don’t bother competing for the story if it’s behind a PayWall.
If this had been an exclusive on any other news organisation, it would be leading the Breakfast news bulletins.
It isn’t.
Jacinda and Grant will be praying to the PayWall today.
Jacinda will criticise Australia for its treatment of NZers and will embarrass them rightfully for their appalling refugee policy but won’t criticise their attack on the Fourth Estate in case it reminds people we have our own war crimes to answer for.
Right wing climate deniers will snarl this is just another report from delusional lefties, however, that’s not true…
The Climate Crisis demands we radically shift from dairy but we don’t, so the bottom of the market falling out of the entire industry may well be the impetus for change.
The spectre of the last crash and how close it came to plunging the NZ Shire into Mordor haunts The Reserve Bank, Orr can’t forget that fear as he battles the banks.
If there is any winner in this budget, it’s Māori.