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…
Media Watch
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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.
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Waatea 5th Estate – From Brexit to Trump – why are voters so angry?
Joining us tonight to discuss why the electorate are so angry and sick of the system from Trump to Brexit…
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Waatea 5th Estate – The Saudi Sheep Bribe – how is Murray McCully still a Minister?
Joining us tonight to discuss the latest allegations in the Saudi Sheep Bribe Scandal…
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Waatea 5th Estate – The horror of Kathryn’s Story
Joining us for a special discussion on the worst case of abuse on a beneficiary by a Government Department I’ve ever seen…
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TV REVIEW: The Nation – Why Murray McCully must be sacked but why Key can’t
Key is stuck with Murray because Murray has got a gun pointed at Key’s head.
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Waatea 5th Estate – Hosking petition, public broadcasting and the impact of media consolidation on democracy
Joining us tonight to discuss public broadcasting, the Hosking petition and the impact on democracy of media consolidation
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Daily Blog July Donations Drive and outage
Sorry for the outage over the last 24 hours comrades,