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Waatea News Column: Why National’s beneficiary bashing is really dog whistle politics
National has promised a spiteful range of draconian measures against beneficiaries that have nothing whatsoever to do with helping those on the benefit and everything to do with dog whistling to National’s reactionary base.
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The 3 moments that grew the gangs, grew the meth and created a law of unintended political consequences
Cough, as TDB pointed out in our How Stuart Nash wins National the 2020 election blog.
Gang numbers are up.
Meth prices are down.
What the hell happened and when does this political time bomb go off?
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Taking Control Of The Nation’s Story.
THE MAORI NATIONALIST assault upon the historical meaning and reputation of Captain James Cook is entirely understandable. With his…
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Rainbow Tick Massey University, Auckland University white supremacist, National fining parents, resignation of NZ first president, Low election turnout & Drug testing at festivals
This week – Rainbow Tick Massey University, Auckland University white supremacist, National fining parents, resignation of NZ first president, Low election turnout & Drug testing at festivals
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Why Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa’s civil disobedience is the future, why Jacinda is wrong and why protestors must demand more
Get used to the massive disruption Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa caused Wellington today, because it’s only going to get worse.
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So Oranga Tamariki uplift children using big data for future crimes and dump them into terrible state care conditions?
Let’s put aside the fact that Oranga Tamariki is a brown washed state agency powered by white saviour delusions using neoliberal settings to argue immediate intervention to save the State money downstream.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Contested views
Well, it is 250 years since the pākeha ancestors, with inferior navigation skills, met nga tupuna Māori at Gisborne. Lt. Cook, as he was then, had embarked on the Endeavour ostensibly to view the transit of Venus across the sun from a vantage point in the South Pacific. Once this task was completed, he opened sealed orders from the Admiralty that asked him to go searching for the elusive Terra Australis, the large land mass that was believed to exist in the Southern Ocean.
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Mass deregulation, bashing beneficiaries & a fascist law & order clamp down – National play to our worst angels for election 2020
Simon Bridges has given us a glimpse of what National will lead with into the 2020 election. It’s right wing economic mythology, mixed with demonisation of those on welfare combined with tough on crime Police state bullshit.
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Dear Wellington elite bureaucrats – I’m sorry this has taken so long to write but I’ve just stopped laughing
I’m sorry this has taken so long to write but I’ve just stopped laughing. Early last month, Boss Womble at the Ministry of Public Wombles, Peter Hughes, wrote this hilarious column…