Beware the Zombie Apolitics
Labour came into office talking about transformation. Since then, the whole country has indeed been transformed.
Most Recent Blogs
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Belief and Reason
We may like to think we are rational beings but, ironically, the idea that we are creatures of reason is, in itself, a belief statement .
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – We still need a plan
In my previous essay I had suggested that the government needed a plan to deal with a community outbreak. The government have pretty much followed that plan. But now WE need to have a plan too.
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PS – the planet is melting
As Northland recovers from a once in 500 year storm, as fires in Siberia thaw massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere, news reaches us that Greenland’s glaciers have passed the point of no return…
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The real reason we must move the election date to November
We could hold the election on September 19th, the Electoral Commission has contingency plans for a Level 2 lockdown election format so this latest outbreak could be solved in time for a 4 week campaign and we could still have the election on September 19th.
I don’t think we should.
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The rise of National Party conspiracy theories and fringe politicians highlight the desperate need for public broadcasting
The reform of public broadcasting which Kris Faafoi has been doing sweet bugger all with is now eroding the actual democracy it is supposed to be protecting.
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Wait, WHAT? So National board member Roger Bridges really DID call Marcus Lush & smear the Auckland Central National Party Candidate?
In the rush to lockdown the country during the latest Covid outbreak, we missed the finer details of their latest example of appalling National Party behaviour.
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Waatea News Column: MAGAtanga conspiracy theory politics is here
The maskless protests in Whangārei organised by Conspiracy groups who believe the Covid Virus is some type of bioweapon spread by 5G to bring about a Shadowy World Government is testament to how politically disenfranchised those abused by the State have become.
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Don’t condemn Covid conspiracy theorists – show some respect!
It’s very fashionable for the middle class to roll their eyes and shake their heads at the lunatic ideas out there about Covid 19 and the local expression of conspiracy theories about the virus through the New Zealand Public Party.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – How Judith Collins and Jerry Brownlee managed to get up my nose.
On the same podium at the same time was Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins who, when subsequently interviewed by Kim Hill about Brownlee’s conspiracy insinuation, threw him under a bus.