Immigration is part and parcel of life, but driving away public servants in key areas of the public sector, then making changes to entice overseas migrants to fill those positions is a desperate looking stop gap measure.

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Media wields a lot of influence and media knows it. What it does with that influence is a bit of a tight rope to walk though, as we see in this week’s episode of Headlines Unspun.

Burt is dead - a 90 year veteran of the screen, an icon in many ways of Australian cinema and creating the Australian identity most recognised all over the world. Well that’s what the head lines would like you to think when you hear about the death of the 90 year old “star” of Crocodile Dundee.

The Bike lanes are coming to eat your children, marry your pets and usher in the end of days in the most biblical sense possible! Well according to the Post in Wellington, yet again…

And when is a season fluff piece not a seasonal fluff piece - when it shows you that a good keen fisherman was also an insurrectionist supporting, racism pushing, illegal Wellington occupier - who wants to kill the ecosystem he fishes in because science is bad!

In this week's Behind the Walls interview, we're joined by Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau to learn more about the Golden Mile project set to revamp Courteney Place over the next few years.

MPI are on the case, so are vigilantes, the Chinese navy and more, in this week's The News

When it comes to the National Party there’s one constant they have always been able to rely on - Mike Hocking will always sing the praises of them and their leader. If he can justify supporting John Key for ponytail pulling, he’ll kiss any National booty! Until now that is…

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On Tuesday we found out about awful people doing awful things - both professionally and unprofessionally…

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5 Months ago the Prime Minister had a chance to avoid what happened last week with Andrew Bailey - less than a full month after giving him more responsibility. 

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Renter’s should be so thankful for this clearly altruistic government, who cares so deeply for them.

Well that’s the message from two of our headlines today from two different major mainstream outlets - giving the impression that life for renters is clearly going to improve if it hasn’t done so already thanks to the benevolent landlords who once again outnumber first home buyers after government changes over the last 12 months.

And we take a look at something from the glue eating cousins of MSM over at Reality Check, who tried their hand at an actual headline instead of their usual self flagellation of “we’re different to MSM” which is still spin, but of course the critical of thinkers there don’t realise that…

We all know media has a spin, well most of us do - and recognising that hopefully helps us better approach the world of media we’re presented with a bit more criticality.

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After the attack on a local community centre in west Auckland over the weekend Auckland celebrated Pride events, calls have grown for the government to hold Destiny Church and its leader Brian Tamaki to account. In this week's interview, I sit down and talk to Labour's spokesperson on Rainbow Issues, Shanan Halbert about the steps the government could take to do this and keep rangatahi safe.And if you're keen to learn more about the SPOTS research Auckland University is undertaking or do the survey, check out https://www.spots.org.nz/

Sexism, misgony, missed targets and sharks - all that and more in This Week’s The News.

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