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I got another confession to make…
I’m a fool. No, this isn’t going to be about my man-love for Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, or sadly missed drummer Taylor Hawkins. But it is lyrical in nature. Sort of. When I signed up for my creative writing course at university this semester there was one part I was dreading – the poetry
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It’s hard to be positive when…
It’s clear there are multi-tier justice systems based on who you are, your race and how much money you have. One of the world’s richest men, a fragile egotist with far-right conspiracy theory beliefs, claims to be a free-speech absolutist but shuts down accounts that don’t like him and sues a non-profit for trying to
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The good and the bad
THE BAD It doesn’t get much worse than unhinged cooker Winston Peters and his disgusting rhetoric over the weekend, including drawing comparisons with policies from the last Government to Nazism. I’ve been hugely unimpressed with Chris Hipkins’ relative silence since the new Government was formed, but he got his response 100 percent correct on this
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It’s ideological, baby
I’m not a huge fan of Aotearoa’s three-year Parliamentary terms, mostly because it means the campaigning for the next election feels like it starts as soon as the last election is over. I’m willing to amend my opinion, however, given just how destructive the new National/Act/New Zealand First Government is. Three years just can’t come
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Stop exploiting Papatūānuku!
One of the more disgusting things the new Government in Aotearoa is doing (and believe me, there’s a lot) is looking at fast-tracking the ability for mining companies to destroy swathes of land, currently protected. Here’s some more information from a Newshub report in late December: Stewardship areas are parcels of land with conservation value
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I would never…
Say that New Zealand First MP and Aotearoa Associate Health Minister Casey Costello is a shill for the tobacco industry. What I can say is that if she’s not, she’d doing a damn fine job of making it look like she is. And she probably wouldn’t be do anything different if she was shilling for
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Haud yer wheesht!
There are a multitude of reasons why the site is called ‘haud yer wheesht’, Scots for ‘keep your mouth shut’:
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