GUEST BLOG: Damon Rusden – Petrol Tax Hysteria: Why we shouldn’t be upset
If National is going to be the Champion of Highways they should learn the attributes of Champions – integrity and honesty.
New Zealand Politics
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Hawkesby + Hosking + du Plessis-Allan + Hooton + Soper = a problem for the NZ left in the NZ media
Every single political panel show in NZ lines up right wing stormtroopers against naval gazing identity left pundits and the results are the Left narrative gets the living snot beaten out of it while the Right narrative triumphs.
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MUST READ: Piling-On The Pressure
Can liberal democracy survive if the news media abandons evidence-based judgement and simply piles-on “as one” against a prime minister and her government? And what if it isn’t just the timing that’s consistent, but the message as well? What then? How is the public to avoid the impression that the news media is rooting for one side and not the other?
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Dear Green Party of NZ – if you aren’t too busy – why the hell are the Overseas Investment Office doing THIS!!! (Actually maybe I should just go straight to David Parker)
When you aren’t too busy handing over your questions to the National Party, could you ask National to ask Labour to ask you why the hell you aren’t kicking up hell about this decision by the Overseas Investment Office to deny organic farmers and entrepreneurs, Gary and Meg Hirshberg’s, application to purchase land in Ngatimoti, Nelson?
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If Heather du Plessis-Allan is such a clairvoyant, why didn’t she see her 7pm show with Duncan Garner on TV3 getting cancelled?
This opinion piece gives fake news a bad name.
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“It wasn’t me” – Simon Bridges on the horror underfunding of our social infrastructure
If only the news media had spent as much time focusing on this grotesque political obscenity as they have chasing Clare Curran’s coffee dates.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – People might die in Waikato Hospital but racism is alive and well
I am bloody disgusted to hear that a Māori woman, a whanau member who is an integral part of the health and wellbeing of a patient at Waikato Hospital had been treated so badly. Every person who is in deep pain and suffering has the right to have somebody at their side in the hours leading up to critical surgery. And every Māori has a right under the Treaty of Waitangi, and the policies of the Ministry of Health to provide care for their whanau, particularly in times of stress.
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UK case against Russian spy poisoning falling over
…Jacinda’s decision not to jump on the bandwagon is starting to look far wiser than pundits had originally mocked.
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Alleged NZ War Criminal cover up artist resigns and NZ media STILL obsessed by Clare Curran’s coffee dates – peak denial reached
This is insanity. Our fourth estate have completely failed us. The only way this war crime gets covered now is if it appears on Married At First Sight and admits cheating while going on a coffee date with Clare Curran.
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Petrol taxes should be higher & Sugar tax now!
…big sugar and big oil have had it too good for too long – the time is now to start taxing them!