Waatea News Column: The people Jacinda is leaving behind in Election 2020
The decision to tinker rather than transform is a political decision and those who are left behind are the societal casualties of that political cowardice.
Media Watch
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Te Ao with MOANA – Critics are saying removing statues is erasing history
One could argue that’s what happen when settlers renamed towns, glorified certain people and changed the narrative to hide the violence of colonisation
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MEDIA WATCH: Why on earth is Nanaia Mahuta setting fire to the Labour Party?
Māori development minister Nanaia Mahuta released an insane proposal on Māori media last week, set a ridiculously tiny window for consultation on that insane proposal and seems to have utterly ignored anyone else’s view who might have helped avoid such a ridiculous blunder being introduced in the first place.
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MEDIA WATCH: Ummm, I don’t know if School threatening to call Police for Black Lives Matter protests is the smartest branding exercise
What on earth is this Principal of Marist saying?
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Waatea News Column: The horror of Oranga Tamariki laid bare – again
The latest Oranga Tamariki report by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner came out this week and it is again grim reading for anyone who has been following this neoliberal experiment in social policy.
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Te Ao with MOANA – Have you ever heard the line “There’s just a few bad apples”?
Guled Mire and JessB are on the show tonight 8pm on Māori TV to discuss Black Lives Matter, Racism and having African whakapapa on Māori land.
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MEDIA WATCH: Shane Jones signals to Matthew Hooton what the price of NZ First is at the election
With NZ First barely polling 2% in the Polls, this gasp for political relevancy faces a more desperate struggle this time around because of the enormous political capital Jacinda has built over the pandemic.
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Te Ao with MOANA – NZ & Black Lives Matter
It’s not an Either/Or moment. Supporting the Black Lives Matters movement does not mean you do not care about issues here in Aotearoa.
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Waatea News Column: The one thing that loses Jacinda the election in September
Four consecutive Polls in a row, Newshub, TVNZ, Roy Morgan and UMR, have all put Jacinda and the Labour Party in the unprecedented position to be able to govern alone.
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MEDIA WATCH: Andrea Vance’s obituary to James Shaw is tender but misses the point
At no point does Vance seek to ask why the Greens are performing so badly and based on the answers Shaw gives in this interview, I don’t think Shaw knows why either.