…it is difficult to know who is the worst public department, what with the Housing NZ meth hysteria, the cruelty of MSD and the counter-productive horror of our prison industry, but it is safe to say that MPIs spinelessness towards primary industries must surely be the most cowardly.
We might have an unmarried Mum with a stay at home Dad First Family, but NZ has not and is not progressing positively.
Here are 8 things NZ should do right now:
…the greatest NZ cartoonist of all time, David Low, will be turning in his grave today.
We want more film to be filmed here and we want our arts industry to thrive but not at the cost of another propaganda victory for National.
You want to eliminate the synthetic cannabis industry? Legalise the actual cannabis industry!
…climate change is here, it is now, we have run out of time. We need to be focused on becoming an adaptation culture and economy, proclaiming carbon neutral by 2050 is meaningless sophistry. It will be far too fucking late by 2050.
…by questioning putting more money into Peter Jackson being able to buy a new private jet, the Government are immediately reducing the leverage National might generate by screaming the LOTR series won’t be filmed here as the response from taxpayers will be ‘good’.
This is a military who have smeared journalists, manipulated the truth, told outright falsehoods and have been caught red handed with allegations of war crimes.
Strategically this is a vicious knifing of RNZ by TVNZ. With Clare Curran on the sidelines begging to give away public money, Checkpoint with Campbell was the most obvious target, but TVNZ have taken that target and left RNZ with a mammoth hole to fill.
The biggest loser here however is Mediaworks and the Project.
Unless Louise Nicholas can be brought on board and to publicly support this appointment, Haumaha is going to have to stand down.