If you want someone to blame, look at the underfunded and burnt out public services who’ve become callous in their obligations to those in their care. If prisoner rights were at the forefront of Corrections priorities, the investigation to ensure they were being released at the right time would have occurred and demanded change.
Auckland is the largest Pacifica and Maori Urban city in the world, yet their voices, their aspirations and their reality is rarely ever listened to.
At this stage, it doesn’t even matter if Hillary wins, Trump has won. The hate he has injected into the body politic is unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times and the long term carcinogenic impacts of that type of political cancer are difficult to predict.
This isn’t a ‘blunder’ – it’s the truth about a civil service that has become uncivil. About public services that are supposed to be the bastions of egalitarianism essential to a progressive liberal democracy mutating into the cruelest of torture devices used by the State to keep the poor too terrified to fight back.
It’s always funny how it’s supposed to be Maori who just roll over and have their private property taken off them for the benefit of the public
The fundamental problem of engagement in local democracy comes down to the grim reality that most of the democracy at a local level is a facade.
The new TVNZ Breakfast Team look like they are insurance brokers for a new company that gets most of its new client enrolments at malls…
From Paul Henry in the morning to Mike Hosking at night with a merged right wing newspaper monopoly in the middle. An unbroken chorus of neoliberal mythology masquerading as successful fact.
We have become a one media state.
…so it was an encouraging and female friendly environment where Scarlette performed graphic acts for the lads in a really pro-feminist setting?
What’s uglier? The Spinoff fawning over their exclusive relationship with the Real Housewives of Auckland or the NZ Herald’s?