5 reflections on a week of the Herald’s Paywall
Here are some reflections on the first week of the Herald’s paywall.
New Zealand Politics
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My concerns around the agreed media protocols of covering the terrorist trial
Am I the only one concerned at how the entire mainstream media have colluded together to cover the white supremacist trial?
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Political Ramifications of Jacinda’s wedding (why Simon Bridges is safe as leader now)
The only way Simon Bridges could counter this is by personally entering Pike River Mine and finding the Ark of the Covenant while healing sick children.
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Finally something to cheer from Labour (warning – it’s tiny but what else do we have?)
Luckily for the Government they have a wedding to plan and the middle classes attention will quickly slip away from their egalitarian pretensions to what wedding dress designer Jacinda will be wearing.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – We need an escape plan
The more I watch the Labour coalition government ignore the recommendations of the working groups it has set up (at considerable cost ) the more it’s clear to me that the Ardern/Roberston government is going to make the inmates of our neoliberal prison a little more comfortable with warmer cells to rent (for example) , but they are not going to open the prison gates.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Help the little guys fight the big guy
Sustainable Otakiri has four days left to meet the costs of Sustainable Otakiri taking the Chinese owned company that wants to bottle .1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year (that’s 2,451, 960 bottles each day) to the Environment Court.
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The Liberal Agenda – New Zealand Public Television Trust: Transforming cities with technology?
If you use one of those “free” electric scooters or bikes you are giving someone valuable data about your movements around the city. Is that something that concerns you – or not?
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Dr Liz Gordon – The Bob and Dave roadshow
This is not good enough. Ratepayers need to see a proper, complete, financial accounting of the Henderson saga, and of what it has cost, from first to last. There is a new Council now, a different Mayor and new policies. I would like to see the Christchurch City Council do a public reckoning to its ratepayers of what this iniquitous and shambolic deal cost us, first and last.
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Dr Liz Gordon – That disgusting benefit sanction is gone
Yes, I know, the decision not to increase benefits yet is terrible. It does condemn many households to a further miserable existence in povertyland. And it is wrong. But I am celebrating today. Because thousands of single parent families, whose only ‘crime’ was to refuse to name the father of their child/ren, will no longer be subject to a punitive and disgusting sanction of $28 per week.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – Slushies, Pike River Mine, trial coverage protocols, Simon Bridges still leader, Venezuela & trans athletes
This week – Slushies, Pike River Mine, trial coverage protocols, Simon Bridges still leader, Venezuela & trans athletes