Media Watch

The incredible line reality that Māori make up a quarter of the new Cabinet makes the Māori Caucus the most powerful in NZ political history.

The preliminary cannabis referendum results have just come in and with over 480 000 specials still to be counted, 46% have said yes to cannabis reform while 53% said they were happy with racist drug laws.

With the Warehouse dumping jobs, no one is getting a bargain and claiming that ill made imported products are somehow ‘sustainable’ is eye rolling.

If the only solution that we arrive at with the mutation that is Oranga Tamariki is to divert funding to a Māori Authority to run, then we have failed miserably in this crucial debate.

One of the most interesting changes with a majority Government is the re-emergence of the importance of the factions inside a Party.

I started 2020 arguing that Māori would be a decisive voting block in this election, but not even I could have hoped for the kind of result we ended with.

…never before have so many rich white men wept so many tears for so few actual Left wing policy gains. 

Watching Jacinda struggling to justify the drunk baby steps her last 3 years have resulted in is painful.

Watching Judith pretend she gives a fuck about child poverty is far more painful.