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Aussie Critic Slams NZ News Media for “Inoffensive Drabness”
Nick Cater, a columnist for The Australian newspaper, has written a biting criticism of New Zealand’s mainstream media in an article commenting on former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd‘s call for a Royal Commission to investigate Australia’s news media for what he (Rudd) alleges is lack of
Daily News Roundup – 2 December 2020
Climate change Richard Harman: Now the hard part on climate change is about to begin Jamie Morton (Stuff): What does declaring a ‘climate emergency’ actually do? Robert McLachlan (The Conversation): Climate emergency or not, New Zealand needs to start doing its fair share of climate action David Farrar: If Labour
The Council Cuckoo’s Nest
The novel and film starring Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, is a study of the psychiatric institutions of the mid-twentieth century and the human mind. Nicholson’s character, the inmate McMurphy, attempts to take control of the asylum through cunning manipulation. He fails. In New
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Yet Another Raid on Employer’s Pockets by a Hostile Government
This Government has signalled that they aren’t on the side of employers. They have announced a doubling of sick leave which will cost employers nearly $1 billion per annum. As businesses are still reeling from the enforced shut down because of the Chinese plague, this is the last thing
Face of the Day
Phil Goff proposes ‘one-off’ 5 percent rates increase after ‘unprecedented’ $1b loss Mayor Phil Goff is proposing a “one-off” 5 percent rates increase to help Auckland Council deal with an “unprecedented” $1 billion loss in revenue caused by COVID-19. Releasing the mayoral proposal for Auckland’s 10-
Oral Questions – 1 December 2020
Questions to Ministers 1. Dr DUNCAN WEBB to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? 2. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement in relation to accepting policy recommendations on housing, “The appetite for some of
Ricardo Menéndez March Has No Principles
ACT Party A Million Views This week, an ACT MP had a video viewed a million times, worldwide. It was James McDowall swearing allegiance to the Queen in Parliament. He swore in English and Cantonese, his wife’s language. Hong Kong legislators are forced to go to Beijing and swear
It’s All Our Fault Says PM on Housing Crisis
The ‘Queen of Covid’, Jacinda Ardern has decided to blame the housing crisis on the ‘team of 5 million’. So much for we are all in this together. Talk about arrogant: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is putting some onus on the public for the housing crisis, saying the Government had
NZ Media: Stunted Narcissists
Despite assiduously crawling and arse-kissing to News Ltd. journos during his short, unlamented tenure, Kevin Rudd has lately decided that the Murdoch media empire is the devil incarnate. Afflicted with more than the usual discarded politician’s Relevance Deprivation Syndrome, Rudd has apparently decided that, seeing as he was
Daily News Roundup – 1 December 2020
Housing 1News: Jacinda Ardern says public bears some responsibility for housing crisis after failed taxation attempts Scott Palmer (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern partly blames New Zealand public for housing crisis, Chlöe Swarbrick reacts with scathing emoji Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): If we can’t change the supply or demand for housing,
Stuff’s “Truth” Starts with a Lie
Stuff has gone all woke and wet and in the process drowned any credibility they once had by apologising to Maori for over three centuries of bad reporting. Over three centuries? That means since 1720 Stuff and its papers have supposedly been unfair on Maori. Hmmm….three centuries? It is