Lords Of The Lies
The Chair of the NZ Media Council has praised the Australian government for standing up to Facebook’s attempt to blackmail Aussies into letting it post their media’s news content for free, but which it has now agreed to pay for.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Patrick John O’Dea – Ardern Falters
If the strategy is counting on human nature as your barrier to stopping the spread of the pandemic you are doomed to fail.
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Waatea News Column: Kelvin Davis has another terrible day at the office
I am honestly not sure who is advising Minister Kelvin Davis, but his surprising decision this week to attack People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) and refer their pamphlets calling on prison reform to the Police for supposedly inciting the prison riot at Waikeria prison is such a desperately wrong footed move one is left wondering what on earth he thinks he’s doing.
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Labour & Greens continue to push for sexual violence law that will criminalise men and uses vacuum cleaners to make their point
Labour and the Greens continue to quietly ram through law changes while you aren’t noticing that will gerrymander the current sexual violence laws to ensure anyone accused gets found guilty as part of Labour & the Greens woke mantra as law policy.
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The Woke Identity Politics Left need to stop cancelling the wrong people
The Identity Politics Left in NZ need to understand the enemy aren’t people who disagree with us or cling to sexist, racist or homophobic lies. The enemy are corporations and failed political systems that callously sacrifice people for profit which exacerbates the social injustice that fuels sexism, homophobia and racism.
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Suffer The Little Children: Neoliberalism’s Attack On Local Democracy Intensifies.
In the ears of the neoliberals, passionate policy debates register as little more than the whooping and chest-beating of Chimpanzees: mindless status displays; idiotic battles for recognition and dominance. Uncontrolled democracy drowns out the signals of the marketplace, making it impossible for the advice of those with the expertise needed to decode its messages to be heard.
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Yes Minister!
In the current government I am aware of only one single government minister, David Parker, who is prepared to push back against “official advice” and find a better way forward.
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The hypocrisy of National over Māori Wards process is breathtaking
National is bitching about due process?
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MEDIA WATCH: Newshub’s appalling gang story has no idea of what is happening
This is appalling journalism from Newshub.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Public health system subsidises private health system but!
The relationship between New Zealand’s public and private health systems has long been a subject of debate, wariness and occasional controversy. Yesterday the results of a University of Otago study of patients who needed public hospital care after private inpatient treatment were reported in the mainstream media.