Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ANDREW BAYLY Andrea Vance (Post): Harmless bants, or the National party telling us exactly who it is? (paywalled) Adam Pearse, Claire Trevett, Julia Gabel (Herald): Small Business and Manufacturing Minister Andrew Bayly apologises for interaction during company visit RNZ: National Minister Andrew Bayly apologises
In a classic case of a tone-deaf civil servant who thinks she knows best, Solicitor-General Una Jagose issued and then retracted a sentencing guidance document that gave Māori a literal get-out-of-jail-free card based entirely on ethnicity.
Winston is on fire as he raises the ire of Te Pāti Māori by highlighting their appalling behaviour.
Their apparent belief that their fast-diminishing, remaining, audience wishes to view Allan’s bum says everything about their abysmal judgment and consequential decline.
This reflects on their own ineffectiveness, which has cut productivity, not on our MPs’ quality.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FAST TRACK Farah Hancock (RNZ): Most fast-track panellists picked by ministers, political parties Kayla Kingdon-Bebb (Post): As fast-tracking proceeds, the outcry will only grow (paywalled) Fox Meyer (Newsroom): National MP renews vow to ‘lie on tracks’ to stop rail project, now on fast-track Maria
Minister Brown’s challenge appears insurmountable. Opportunity cost is a concept entirely outside their frame of reference and he’s endeavouring to explain it to them.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see where the debacle called Wellington City Council is headed: they are being lined up for a Commissioner.
The Michigan researchers are part of the new Green Movement who have moved about as far from green as you can get. As Joni Mitchell sang they plan to “pave paradise and put up a parking lot” for electric cars only.
Staff at 1News are part of the problem, but they could also be part of the solution if they presented the news in an objective, non-partisan manner. Then some viewers and advertisers might return and aid the company’s balance sheet
It is clear that their role is to ensure public support for government authority by dismissing and even criminalising those who dare to oppose government policies. Such propaganda should concern anyone who values freedom and democracy.
Humans should certainly be removed from the news. The entire system or media deserves to be allowed to die, or at least evolve.
