New Zealand Volcano Update and Jacinda’s leadership
Currently right wing NZ activists are filming themselves entering book stores to turn a biography about Ardern around and are loading it onto twitter using the hash tag #turnardern
New Zealand Politics
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Waatea News Column: ODT Cartoon outrage misplaced
We should collectively be righteously appalled at the tone deaf ODT cartoon that made light of the terrible measles epidemic that has killed over 50 children in Samoa. It was an ugly ‘joke’ that shouted white privilege, but calls to boycott the ODT, sack the cartoonist and the enormous social media wave of fury seem to me to be grotesquely misplaced.
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Moral of the story? Don’t ever do a favour for Jason bloody Kerrison
Poor old bloody Chris Faafoi, trying to help a mate in a situation he’s personally aware of is unfair and what happens? The mate he’s trying to help turns on him and in a tantrum looks like he’s handed over all their private messages to the media.
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The political recalculation to make from the brilliant Cannabis Referendum blindside & National’s flawed 42 joints attack
6 months ago the Cannabis referendum looked like it would die before it could be harvested.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Revolutionizing the Banks
Chris Trotter writes that the Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr could be a ‘revolutionary’ by forcing the Aussie banks to hold more funds to cover liabilities in a crisis such as that of the big bust of 2008.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Chloe Swarbrick vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Cannabis Referendum, ODT Cartoon, latest poll & Folau saga
‘It’s like having a cocktail’: Sean Plunket, Chlöe Swarbrick find common ground on weed Radio host Sean Plunket –…
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Adrian Orr – The Reserve Bank’s Revolutionary Governor?
I’M BEGINNING to suspect that Reserve Bank Governor, Adrian Orr, is, at heart, a revolutionary. The decision of the Reserve…
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MUST READ: Professor Wayne Hope – Our Public Media Crisis
New Zealand’s entire media system is in crisis and public media institutions are struggling to survive. What follows is a step-by-step analysis of where we stand and what might be done.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Vaccination and the loss of faith in the state
Around 20 years ago a British scientist named Wakefield led a study of twelve people that seemed to suggest a relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. The study was soon shown to be flawed, and by itself was a mere blip in the ocean. It is, after all, well-established that systems of vaccination have had remarkable health effects on the human population over the past seventy years.
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Cannabis Referendum Bill deserves your Yes vote. Here’s what it does and how we can make it even better
Cannabis Referendum Bill deserves your Yes vote. Here’s what it does and how we can make it even better. Yesterday…