20 years of LOTR if it was a satire
What most foreigners don’t appreciate about The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy is that they aren’t fantasy movies. They are real life documentaries set in modern day New Zealand.
New Zealand Politics
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Media Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand 2021
I co-direct, with Merja Myllylahti, the Journalism Media and Democracy (JMAD) research centre at the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology. For 11 years, we have published yearly reports on national media ownership and related issues. As of 2020, they featured contributions from other researchers at the school. The 2021 report has just been released [put link here].
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The Liberal Agenda – 7pm tonight MagicTalk Radio THUNDERDOME OF TALKBACK
Graeme Hill vs Damien Grant vs Bomber
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MUST READ: Marching To Class War
Today we learn that Business New Zealand has refused to partner with the State and the NZ Council of Trade Unions (CTU) in the roll-out of Labour’s long-awaited – and well-mandated – Fair Pay Agreements.
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OLYMPIC BOYCOTT – REAL MORAL OUTRAGE
That, the United States of America, claiming moral outrage, can call for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics, is hypocrisy in the extreme.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Integrity and vaccine production: lessons for New Zealand
Reputable medical journals such as the British Medical Journal (BMJ) are invaluable not just for doctors but for those that…
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Chloe asks a good housing question – let’s give her a radical solution
Using the Public Works Act, central Government should seize 90% of golf courses in Auckland and build a mix of state houses and first time home buyer owner/occupier tiny houses using the best environmental & urban design housing.
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Maori Party end year bewilderingly reopening door to National!?!?!?
What a way to end the year, and we all thought Judith was a self mutilation too far!
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For the 10 billionth time Labour – how to counter China in the Pacific
Rugby diplomacy and promotion of Journalistic standards throughout the Pacific could counter China and promote NZs strategic interests.
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Why the new poverty stats are way worse beyond the identity politics lens
By constantly blaming Maori we can’t see that this is a failure of neoliberalism that cascades across race.