WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Marae & RSA should be resourced as the new front line in climate change
When disaster hits, it’s not politicians on the frontline — it’s marae. The question is why we’re still not funding them like it.
National Party
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Jobs keep vanishing under National
Luxon promised fewer jobseekers. Instead, tens of thousands more Kiwis are out of work — and the numbers are still climbing.
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The new language of disaster that the Government are quietly slipping into their new climate change narrative
When Ministers praise “resilience”, are they applauding communities — or quietly preparing us to expect less help when climate disasters hit?
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CTU welcomes Tax Justice Aotearoa policy statement as election-year debate begins
We tax wages. We tax spending. But wealth? Not so much. The CTU says that imbalance can’t survive another election cycle.
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Govt asleep at the wheel as fuel crisis bites
If the fuel crisis gets worse, what exactly is the Government’s plan? Labour says Luxon still can’t answer the one question New Zealanders deserve answered.
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Trump’s worst geopolitical blunder vs NZ Economy with 7.5% inflation
Trump’s geopolitical madness won’t stay in the Middle East. It’s coming for your groceries, your mortgage, your job and every excuse this Government makes for staying silent.
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Wait? What! Trump now says HE will close the Strait of Hormuz? The old blockade to block a blockade that wasn’t blocked before being blocked strategy?!?
Iran threatens to close it. Trump says he’ll close it first. Oil spikes. Markets panic. And somehow this is meant to be strategy?
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MEDIAWATCH: Damien Grant’s snide Libertarianism can’t deflect from illegal Iranian War
Bend the logic hard enough and anything looks defensible. That’s the trick. That’s also the tell.
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What National showed us during this fuel crisis was that they will serve us all up to the free market
When things fall apart, who picks you up — and who tells you to harden up? The fuel crisis gave us the answer.
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Don’t forget National, ACT and NZ First back the war criminals
They won’t call it what it is — but their silence says enough. If this is “defence”, where’s the line?
