Dr Liz Gordon: 2020
I have regained a small sliver of optimism this week over Bob Jones dropping the defamation action against Renae Maihi.
New Zealand Politics
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MEDIAWATCH: National promises that if elected, they’ll bring back the Housing Crisis
If National get back in, they promise to take NZ back to the Housing Crisis by cementing into place middle class property speculation rights over the working poor, Gen X, Millennials, Māori, Pacifica & beneficiaries.
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Please don’t allow another badly beaten child to become a knee jerk against civil rights. Again.
We all want justice for this little boy, we all need to know that the person or persons who conducted such violence are punished and removed from the possibility of doing this again. To feel otherwise would be not human.
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What’s worse? Green Party denial? Labour Party tribalism? Or NZF desperation?
We all have righteous grievance with the pitiful gains made under this Government, but they are made against the backdrop of nearly a decade of underfunding. They deserve a second term to try and implement the transformational change promised, but that second term is going to be bitterly fought and won.
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Oh look at that, Gang war exploding just as TDB warned 6 months ago – why National’s Task Force Raptor won’t work
Folks, you can either read it here first on TDB or wait 6 months for the mainstream media to catch up.
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Anti-poverty campaigner Ricardo Menendez-March selected as Green Party candidate for Maungakiekie
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand has confirmed anti-poverty campaigner Ricardo Menendez March as their candidate for Maungakiekie in…
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The best news to come out of the Green Party in years
Good luck Ricardo. You are going to need it.
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MEDIAWATCH: The awful moment when Mike Hosking is right
We all hate Mike Hosking.
That is righteous and that is proper and his most recent column stating he is considering leaving Auckland was met with the usual howls of mirth and people begging him to do so.
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If you are progressive and living in Epsom, it’s time to strategically vote ACT out
Who wins Epsom could decide the fate of the next Government.
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MEDIAWATCH: Winston’s photo of journalists was wrong, but since when the hell were National or Matthew Hooton defenders of journalism?
Again, Winston bad for being a creep, but Hooton and National are in no position whatsoever to harp on about defending journalism from their self-erected moral high ground.