Waatea News Column: What Luxon means is more Oranga Tamariki
One of the interesting insights we’ve gleaned from new National leader Chris Luxon, is that he likes to double down on policy failure.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 12th December 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Assange ruling a crushing blow to democracy and journalism
What a bitter day for democracy and journalism!
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MEDIAWATCH: The Spinoff go full woke on LOTR
Never go full woke.
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How National beats Labour
The problem for National is that NZ has escaped a mass death and hospitalization pandemic because Labour did the opposite…
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20 years of Lord of the Corporates
If the global movie industry are focused only on price we are always going to get played, surely the time is now to directly fund our own movies and our own stories with our own people.
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20 years of LOTR if it was a satire
What most foreigners don’t appreciate about The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy is that they aren’t fantasy movies. They are real life documentaries set in modern day New Zealand.
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February’s major medicinal cannabis summit gearing up – MedCan Summit 2022
Just two months away, New Zealand’s largest medicinal cannabis summit is well and truly gearing up. February’s MedCan 2022, which…
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Media Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand 2021
I co-direct, with Merja Myllylahti, the Journalism Media and Democracy (JMAD) research centre at the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology. For 11 years, we have published yearly reports on national media ownership and related issues. As of 2020, they featured contributions from other researchers at the school. The 2021 report has just been released [put link here].
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday – 11th December 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.