Because of the deunionised work force which has created such low wage growth, the working classes look at the meagre pittance paid out in welfare with envy and right wing shock jocks stir that envy into a toxic resentment.
Some people claim sportspeople are role models. Perhaps you need to get out more.
I heard Mike King once say that the most important thing he tells young men around NZ about suicide is that they are loved. It’s a message that is being ignored everywhere else because we have become a broken nation of unloved fatherless sons.
Parliament is currently looking to criminalise smoking in cars with children. Seeing as the largest block of people this would impact are young Māori women, the idea of green-lighting Police to hassle young Māori women any more than they currently do sounds like a recipe for disaster.
So National are promising a bonfire of red tape that doesn’t exist while ignoring a climate crisis that does exist???
No one has yet tied these threads together however to make sense of what is happening, so here is what is happening and here is how National win the 2020 election.
Why the living Christ do Māori continue to make the best current affairs in this country?
Two major events occurred last week that require comment. Minister for Children, Tracey Martin, finally criticised Oranga Tamariki staff last…
Your first job as a Producer is to ensure your host doesn’t make a fool of themselves, The AM Show Producer failed horribly at that this morning.
The Government has to restructure the economic modelling of the media so that they can independently continue without needing to curry favour with the Government of the day.