The Coalition has finally decided to start the ball on Local Government Reform - but it’s a bit of a mess, hidden at the ass end of the year when they expect low engagement and gaining a lot of criticism for how rushed it and ill thought out it seems, and how it could undermine democracy.

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Like Money Laundering, Narrative Washing takes something clearly bias and uses mainstream media to legitimise it and present it as unbias to a wider public - and here in Aotearoa New Zealand it happens a lot, and its used mostly by the multitude of think tanks we have promoting the Coalition parties.

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Do you know what rules regulate social media for political parties in an election, or the use of AI? What is stopping a Political Party from lying outright or misleading voters? For most of the period between elections, the answer is “not much at all”

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Winston Peters does what Winston Peters Does… multiple times, Smokefree praise goes up in… well there must be an analogy here, the city with no beds and more in This Week’s The News.

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*This Week’s The News is a satire, based on real news reports. Some comments and representations have been made for comedic effect.

Experts in trans health care are decrying this week’s announcement to stop new patients accessing puberty blockers as part of their health care needs based on a highly questioned single report, a rage baited audience of nasty malcontents, timing that seems purposeful in its calculations and an imaginary war being waged by a party that is revelling in its cruelty.

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Two years of the coalition has reaped havoc - at home we see it in sky rocketing prices, strikes, increasing unemployment, businesses failing and mass migration to greener, is maybe snake filled, pastures. But what how has the international reputation of the country held up during the onslaught?  Yeah - about as well as the rest of us who aren’t getting perks from the government for donating to their campaigns.

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IPSOS don’t ask voters who they’d vote for, but do ask them what concerns they have - and who is the best to deal with them - and it does not paint a pretty picture for how the public see the Coalition and it’s ability to deal with the actual issues important to them.

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Remember when Virtue Signalling was bad because the party with the Pedo President and race baiting policies said saying wanting good things for the future was bad? They wouldn’t do something similar to appeal to their voters now, would they? 

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A year out from the election, we need to prepare ourselves for an onslaught of different types - some of it simple, some of it more complex and some of it lacking context we really should have to help keep ourselves informed - as we’ve seen this week.

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A year ago, the Prime Minister stood in front of abuse survivors and apologised for generations of harm and neglect under successive governments and promised that they would try harder to ensure it never happened again - while setting up some of the exact same mechanisms and some all new ones, that are shown to lead to the sort of abuse these people suffered.

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