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Daily News Roundup – 11 June 2020
Police Duncan Garner (Newshub): Why I don’t believe Andrew Coster when he says he wants an unarmed police service Jordan Bond (RNZ): The Detail: Why Armed Response Teams struck the wrong note in NZ Newstalk ZB: Defence expert: New Zealand should avoid militarising police Vita Molyneux (Newshub): People Against
Our Leaders Dither as Our Cities Burn
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Daily News Roundup-10 June 2020
Police * Zane Small (Newshub): Celebration or failed consultation? Police Association still at odds with Greens on armed cops * Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Green Party overjoyed at police decision to dump Armed Response Teams * RNZ: Petitioner urges police to talanoa after Armed Response Teams scrapped * Sam Sherwood and Collette Devlin (Stuff): Police
Dickhead of the Day
Imagine that you are a struggling business trying to stay afloat and to keep all your staff employed after a punishing 7 week lockdown. Then imagine that you are finally allowed to open but with costly and restrictive conditions. Then at last you are told at level one you are
Daily News Roundup – 9 June 2020
Alert Level 1 move, recovery Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Psychologists reveal New Zealand’s political shift during lockdown Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Hooray for level 1. Now what? (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister’s reward for Covid-19 zeroes (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Time to celebrate, then to rebuild Heather du Plessis-Allan
Daily News Roundup – 8 June 2020
NZ First Audrey Young (Herald): The two contrasting faces of Winston Peters (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Balance is vital for Peters and NZ First (paywalled) Richard Harman: Jones claims the Nats will get dirty in Northland Dan Satherley and Delphine Herbert (Newshub): Can Shane Jones win Northland and save
You Suddenly Want to Protest Deaths in Custody? Good! but Can You Be Consistent?
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com George Floyd is dead, and that is an unmitigated tragedy all by itself before anything else happened. All four officers involved were sacked immediately pending investigation, and the alleged murderer was eventually arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter. It’s expected the others will face
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
I have just been listening to a report of a complaint made about a picture in an art gallery of a bare breasted “white” woman wearing a moko. The gallery apologised and withdrew the picture when it was explained to them how offensive and culturally inappropriate this was. Christians are
Print Media Awards
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week back we were as always, hugely entertained by the farcical annual journalism awards. Once again both the Herald and the Stuff fleet bragged of being the big winners, as they do each year. How is this possible? Simple; everyone gets a prize. Being
Daily News Roundup – 5 June 2020
NZ’s coronavirus response, public health strategy, Level 1 decision Derek Cheng (Herald): Big Read: Ashley Bloomfield and Health Ministry’s different views on elimination Peter Dunne: Public compliance and acquiescence during lockdown unlikely to be repeated even if future circumstances warrant it Collette Devlin (Stuff): Dr Ashley Bloomfield says
US Political Protests in New Zealand Are Soooo This Week!
Information Satire Dhuni What started a week ago on 25 May as a tragedy with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, has reached its logical end point with a protest march in Auckland, New Zealand. Mr Floyd was allegedly strangled by a knee to the throat from a Democrat