Youth-adjacent leadership
We’re just over a week into our national lockdown in what continues to be some of the most historic developments of our time.
New Zealand Politics
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New Zealand’s Government Must Save New Zealand’s Media
I’M NOT SURE, after today, if we’re going to come through this global pandemic in one piece.
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MEDIA WATCH: Hands up who loves Adam Smith’s ungloved invisible hand? NZ Woman’s Day, New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, The Australian Women’s Weekly, the Listener, North & South, Next, Metro, Kia Ora, Home NZ and Your Home & Garden
The media landscape has been mutilated by Facebook and Google and because the Government has been too intellectually cowardly to implement taxation against those Trans-national Titans to directly fund journalism, this pandemic is becoming the last straw to break this seasons camel hair back.
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MEDIA WATCH – Mike Hosking hates Jacinda so much, he’s actually siding with the virus now
Mike’s love language would be forced labour camps.
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Outsiders
If 9 percent of the population refuses to comply with the lockdown’s rules, then the rest of us are not about to be released from it anytime soon. Indeed, it’s difficult to see how the Government’s strategy of eliminating Covid-19 can possibly succeed if close to a tenth of the population intends to withhold their co-operation.
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GUEST BLOG: The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce Day 7 : Should We Buy Back Air NZ?
In 1989 the 4th Labour Government 1989 sold off Air New Zealand.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – WHO TO BLAME?
There’s a 60minute (Channel 9 Aussie TV) going around which dramatically condemns China for being the start point of coronavirus, as a result of eating disgusting things like well fried bat’s wings and many other ‘China exotic’ dishes that Western’s find repulsive.
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A nation of ‘Ok Karen’ narcs – Kiwis love the taste of jackboot
There’s an authority worship within the NZ pysche who yearn for the taste of the jackboot over others.
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How amazing has Jacinda been and why she might lose the 2020 election
National may not get the highest Party vote on election night, but if NZF & Greens don’t make it, National + ACT could still become the Government.
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On The Escalating Media Demands For A Covid-19 ‘Wartime’ Coalition With National
I must confess myself in possession of a certain mounting disquiet at the escalating drum-beat echoing through our political commentariat of late.