I must confess myself slightly perplexed at the “outrage” that the Government put $250,000 into working out how to do comms for its Covid-19 strategy. I mean, think about what was involved at every step – what New Zealanders were being asked to do.
The woke lynch mob on Twitter have been salivating over cancelling Martin Devlin for some time and the cancel culture journalism at Stuff has you openly wondering if their intense and never flinching gaze on every tiny detail of Devlin’s latest troubles is driven by Devlin holding Alison Mau’s pets hostage or something.
As Leader, David Seymour has fastidiously avoided the racism, white supremacist bigotry and sheer cruelty of the far right by charting debate that used civil rights as it’s starting point.
That purity has been despoiled.
An industrial scale state-house building programme is the only solution to the housing crisis for low-income New Zealanders
US Ice Cream manufacturer Ben and Jerry’s has announced it will no longer sell icecream in the occupied Palestinian Territories….
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW DAMIEN GRANT!
NZ is the weakest of the 5 Eyes.
If conflict is coming we are going to be the first example.
It was a winter of bitterness and discontent as the tour rolled around the country leaving deep divisions in its wake. Images of the passion and fury from the protests against the tour reverberated in South Africa and around the world.
I am honoured that ‘Jade’ chose to make contact and was willing to write of her and her husband’s draining multi-year fight against false sexual allegations. This is part two of her story
An evaluation of the immunisation services provided to the Counties Manukau DHB does not, however, blame Covid-19 for the sudden drop-off in the Māori vaccination rate. The failure to maintain the pre-Covid percentage is, instead, attributed to: “Cultural microaggressions, white privilege, stereotyping and prejudice.” The authors of this evaluation identified “a failing and culturally incompetent system” as the culprit. “Whānau were in a constant state of stress forced to engage in a system that is inherently racist. Implicit and explicit biases, as forms of racism, were present in both whānau and staff interviews.”