Waatea 5th Estate – Can Labour’s Housing Policy Work?
Joining us tonight to discuss how the Labour Party’s Housing Policy impacts first time house buyers, state tenants and the homeless…
Media Watch
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MEDIA WATCH: The Terrifying Radicalism of Matthew Hooton
WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a radical in the 21st Century? Listening to RNZ’s “Nine To Noon” this morning, I realised it may mean subscribing to the views of Matthew Hooton.
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Waatea 5th Estate – Is the Ministry of Health being racist?
Joining us tonight to discuss why the Ministry of Health has secretly restricted funding a Maori solution to Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy
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The NZ media’s farcical new critique of the opposition – why you should show it contempt
With Labour’s 100th Birthday and with National stumbling so badly, the mainstream media pundits are lining up a new narrative. The old narrative was ‘National are so successful because they are so moderate’.
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TVNZ Breakfast and the real reason Hilary left
I’ve watched Breakfast ion TVNZ in the past, and it’s as enjoyable as slamming my hand in a car door. It’s less Morning Report and more the Edge radio show, a plastic banal wasteland that only the terribly bored would ever watch.
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Waatea 5th Estate – Political wrap of the week
Issue 1 – Labour/Green vs National over housing – can we solve the housing crisis?
Issue 2: The Chilcott report highlights the madness of the Iraq war misadventure in the same week we extend our Afghan force deployment until past 2018
Issue 3: 30 years of homosexual law reform – where to now?
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Waatea 5th Estate – Will Government’s $1billion loan solve Housing crisis?
Joining us tonight to discuss the Government’s $1billion dollar solution to housing and whether it will do anything for the homeless and most vulnerable…
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TV Review: The Nation
TV3’s The Nation on 2 July was probably the most incisive investigative journalism this blogger has seen for a long time. The only “fault” is that The Nation is ‘buried’ at the ghetto time-slot of early Saturday (and repeated early Sunday morning). Mediaworks is wasting a tremendous opportunity to use their current affairs journalistic team as a critical lynch-pin of their broadcasting line-up.
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Digital fluency but no cultural fluency
It’s good that digital technology will soon become a compulsory part of our education system so that students have digital fluency, but in the week where we celebrate the Maori language, when will our students gain cultural fluency?
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A response to Matt Heath – Democratic Participation Is Not A Grey Area
To insist that our elderly citizens should be steadfastly deprived of their right to vote purely because of some ineluctable combination of a referendum result on the literal other side of the world and spiraling youth apathy about politics is heinous.