Can we start a petition on Action Station to get the Spinoff behind a paywall?
One of the most interesting repercussions of the NZ Herald going behind a Paywall has been the sudden increase in the quality of my life.
Media Watch
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Cabinet reshuffles, Makhouf madness, gambling funding, Folau, Mallard seeking Parliamentary funds for legal fees, Euthanasia votes & Cricket World Cup
THIS WEEK: Cabinet reshuffles, Makhouf madness, gambling funding, Folau, Mallard seeking Parliamentary funds for legal fees, Euthanasia votes & Cricket World Cup
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Waatea News Column: Should we strip Oranga Tamariki of its name?
You get the feeling that the Ministry of Vulnerable Children’s name change to Oranga Tamariki was a brown washing exercise to gloss over the much more violent reality of what this new agency would be doing.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: David Hisco, Police over reaction, Luxon, Boris Johnson, ACTs freedom of speech play & girls playing rugby
THIS WEEK: David Hisco, Police over reaction, Luxon, Boris Johnson, ACTs freedom of speech play & girls playing rugby
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A Newspaper Is A Dangerous Mind-Altering Substance
You ever get the feeling that your news media’s attempting to push a particular narrative that’s … not really all that concerned with the truth?
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Waatea News Column: I don’t believe the majority of those arguing about OT fully appreciate how deliberate and horrifically brutal this policy of taking children truly is
If your contribution to the breath taking abuse of child uplifts by Oranga Tamariki is “But it’s not racist” – perhaps you should sit this one out. Maori have been complaining about losing their children to the State since the 1940s – this damaging child theft policy isn’t new.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: The horror of Oranga Tamariki
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: The horror of Oranga Tamariki
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Now Pakeha media have highlighted the horror of Oranga Tamariki’s theft of Māori children – will Government be shamed into action?
We all accept that there will be some parents who are a danger to their children, but they are the exception, not the rule, and the incredibly low thresholds being used to seize children is just unacceptable. We know these children have more risk of being abused in State care, we know these children taken into state care tend to turn up in our prisons, we know that we are not supporting vulnerable parents to help them be the best parents they can be.
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Latest Cannabis Poll shows a debate slipping away and Hosking goes full Fox News on Chloe Swarbrick
If you pick a fight with a dirty fighter, you don’t turn up to box Queensberry Rules.
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Thoughts on a month of the Herald paywall and John Campbell on Breakfast
I don’t want to go on and on and on about how wonderful Breakfast on TVNZ has become since John Campbell joined because that seems terribly unfair to Jack Tame, but John is such an incredible broadcaster and journalist that he actually lifts every boat.