NZ Government selling land off to foreigners since 1870

After much trawling I've finally found it:

The Aliens Act 1870:

AN ACT to remove the Disability of Aliens to hold Land in New Zealand. [12th September 1870.]

This legislation walked hand in hand with the Immigration and Public Works Acts being passed by the Vogel administrations (when he was Treasurer and then Premier). Under these laws Vogel cripplingly indebted the government - basically forever because the massive amounts and the projects they began, like the railways, are still an ongoing cost to the government - in the blind hope that the huge influx of immigrants would stimulate the economy. It caused a temporary boom and then quickly slid into a recession that lasted, with bursts of activity, until the mid 1890s.

The various pro-immigration Acts (which included giving land away by the government: "free grants") were themselves a consequence of the war started by the government to subdue Maori and to seize and occupy Maori territory. The design of the significant confiscations in the North Island were premised on large scale immigration - the importation of people hostile to Maori and naturally aligning with the government.

The NZ government borrowed heavily on that stolen land to advance the European domination of the country. They were so desperate to swamp the country with white people that they began taking Danes and Germans and other Nordic and European people from 1870 and that is particularly why the Aliens Act was passed.

In one eerie echo after another of what was to happen a century later (including an 80s boom-bust and the malfeasance, failure and government bail-out of the BNZ) the development of NZ was made dependent on continuous high rates of immigration - not just to create internal demand for production to support the population in work, but in large part to support an upward spiral of land prices to sustain the wealth of the propertied classes. Nothing in that economic paradigm has changed from that time to this. As I have often said, in most regards New Zealand is still a colonial entity.

So now we are at 2012. We still have no date of independence. Land is still being sold off to foreigners. The Treaty of Waitangi is still used as a doormat upon which the Pakeha-based government scrape their boots. And there's only a single MP in parliament I can think of who has any intention to really challenge this.

BREAKING NEWS: RadioLive DID break the law

Commission: DJ Key's show broke the law

An Electoral Commission ruling due out today has found the Radio Live show hosted by John Key last September was an election programme and therefore a prohibited broadcast.

Newstalk ZB's obtained a copy of the commission's decision over a Labour Party complaint about a show the Prime Minister conducted on Radio Live during last year's election campaign period.

The commission's found the broadcast was an election programme and a breach of the Broadcasting Act.

Well, well, well. So it was illegal after all. How RadioLive managed to get away with a 'politics free zone' hour for Key just before the election was always highly questionable, especially after National had handed Mediaworks millions in deferred radio fees to pay for IronBridges highly leveraged interest costs.

Maybe they can add the $100 000 fine to the tab?

Ouchy.

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Are Climate Deniers taking over Fairfax?

Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart became the largest shareholder in Fairfax this week. Stuff.co.nz, the Dom, The Press and a host of magazine titles are all owned by Fairfax. Why is any of this news? Well when you see that climate deniers in NZ are being funded by the evil Heartland Institute, it should concern that a mining billionaire is following the advice of taking over the media by climate denier nutter, Lord Monkton...

...these filthy liars who are purposely smoke screening the realty of climate change and the fact it is our pollution that creates it are buying up our mainstream media.

As if you needed yet one more reason to switch off.

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It's official - NZ on Air has become propaganda arm of National Party

Just when you didn't think the farce at NZ on Air could get any worse, it has.

The appointment of Stephen McElrea, the Prime Minister's own electorate chair was bad enough right?

That he led a complaint about a poverty documentary on TV3 that highlighted the appalling and cruel reality of John Key's policy on the poor was evidence of how bad a decision that appointment was right?

Well his appointment and attempt to censor political documentaries is one thing, but the news Clare Curran released in Parliament yesterday is the icing on this shit cake because it now turns out that McElrae has personally over seen the funding of 3 new docos, each of them more arse sucking than the last one.

A 'documentary' (and i'm using that word in it's broadest possible definition), on Whanau Ora that, and I quote, will give "a behind the scenes look at the roll out of this new initiative that seeks to deliver positive social outcomes for Maori".

You are kidding right? How the hell can Whanau Ora be the subject of a glowing blow job masquerading as a publicly funded documentary?

But wait, there's more. On top of that $300 000 for a Whanau Ora spin job, McElrea has astoundingly gotten NZ on Air to fund a 'doco' on education reforms and health reforms.

Cue shocked looks of horror mixed with disgust mixed with shame mixed with anger at this latest audacity now.

NZ on Air may as well now fund a documentary called 'Why John Key's testicle sack tastes so good'. NZ on Air's collusion to censor anything that embarrasses the Government to now funding bullshit documentaries proves they have come full circle and are effectively a propaganda arm of the National Party. NZ on Air are now part of the problem, any progressive democratic majority in 2014 must take to them with all the passion of a surgeon cutting out cancer if public broadcasting in NZ is to regain any of it's credibility.

You would think with TVNZ, NZ Herald, ZB and Mediaworks in their pocket that the National Party would consider that enough media manipulation for one political party. But no. NZ's media freedom world rankings dropped 5 places under the National Government. Lockwood Smiths attack on press freedoms in the wake of the self harm attempt in Parliament, my banning from RNZ for criticizing the PM and Key setting the Police onto four of our largest broadcasters for Epsom Tea Pot Tapes are all glaring examples of the slow strangulation of a critical media.

Sleepy hobbits reap what they sow. Welcome to the Kumara Republic.

PS - Well done Clare Curran, isn't it amazing what she can do when The Standard aren't bullying her?

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There's a question mark over Paul Henry's success on Australian TV?

Henry: 'I don't care whether (Channel 10) viewers actually like me'

Controversial broadcaster Paul Henry says he doesn't mind if viewers of his new show on Australian television don't like him - as long as they are entertained.

Australian media have put the chances of Channel 10 successfully cracking the lucrative breakfast market squarely on Henry's shoulders.

Henry has claimed to be relaxed ahead of the network's new Breakfast show's launch, which has not been confirmed but is rumoured to be by the end of the month.

There's a question mark over whether or not Paul Henry will be successful on Australia TV? Really? Certainly, a right wing NZer would only cut it as a left wing Australian, so vast is their acceptance of racism that can pass as polite dinner party conversation, but Paul is surely a special case?

Paul is so redneck, he should get his own tone of crimson named after him at Resene Paints. His race baiting, feminist hating, special olympic mocking brand of broadcasting will go down with the Ozzie's as smooth and easy as a Fosters on Australia Day.

Thankfully his leaving will stop Mediaworks embarrassingly groveling on their belly for him past'Would I lie to you' which looks just awful.

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If Dr Seuss books had honest titles

Very funny from buzzfeed

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One man's genocide is another man's holocaust

We are used to this semantic conjecture - it seems almost timeless now - but viewed through a British lense it has gained some more tread. The headline: "Academic sparks outcry for comparing Britain's colonisation of New Zealand to Holocaust".

Language lecturer Keri Opai claimed that New Zealand's native indigenous Maori were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following the 'holocaust' of British rule.

But last night the President of the New Zealand Jewish Council slammed the Maori academic for 'trivialising state sponsored genocide'.

Well firstly he didn't exactly say what was reported (see comments section.), but whatever, it breaks down to: when is a genocide a holocaust? And is the word 'holocaust' an exclusive term that should only be applied to the genocide of the Jews in Europe by the Nazis and their supporters? Is the use of the term otherwise a dimunition of the severity of it - a form of 'holocaust denial' by way of trivialisation?

At this point it ought to be noted that the President of the NZ Jewish Council - a Zionist organisation - that was ritualistically upset on behalf of the Jewish world is a right wing, establishment politician. So in keeping with his class and politics it is perhaps little wonder that his offence-taking is itself couched in offensive and ignorant assertions:

This is not the first time that Maori have trivialised the Holocaust by trying to associate it with their own perceived grievances. There is absolutely no valid comparison between the settlement of the country and the organised, state sponsored, genocide that was the Holocaust. As a language lecturer Mr Opai is obviously totally ignorant of world history; as an “academic” he should know better.

Those pesky Maori eh? "Perceived" as opposed to real grievances being the most obvious offence - as if the killing of 40% (or whatever it is) of the Maori population is nothing compared to the killing of 60% of Jews?

Is it just numbers? Surely the fact that Maori are confined to Aotearoa made their subjection more acute in some respects to the dispersed Jewish population?

As for organised and state-sponsored genocide - any observer would note the NZ government's policies over many generations has been to control the Maori population, strip them of status, and attempt to "assimilate" them - a cultural genocide (at the very least) that would be difficult to deny. Anyone who has read the 'Encircled Lands' account of Tuhoe and the Urewera will see the quotes from NZ government officials threatening "extermination" unless they surrender. The original plan - the final solution as it were - was to depopulate the entire interior and herd Tuhoe into a Gaza-style concentration camp in sand dunes near Whakatane so they could be destoyed at will should any rebellion take place. There were Einsatzgruppen-style raids - many comparable acts of genocide - against various tribes.

The destruction of one tribe (by other tribes in the pay of the government as well as European soldiers) is no less a genocidal act.

NZ Political Party strategy challenges 2012

Parliament starts this week, and here are some of the strategy challenges confronting each of the parties as 2012 politically begins. Normally I'd leave this type of thing to Bryce Edwards, but I just saw Bryce on TVNZ Breakfast - TV isn't his strong point is it? The only thing liberal about Bryce is his haircut and seeing as Tumeke is a constant blind-spot in his daily political review, here's my political analysis...

NATIONAL

Key is our first truly international politician. Helen Clark had international aspirations, but Key has actually worked as a global citizen and so has a very different view of economic sovereignty. He sees the world in currencies and trading blocks, he doesn't see sovereign nation states meaning his world view will clash with the sleepy hobbits who are suddenly confronted with how relaxed he is to hock off state assets and productive farm land to as many Chinese and American interests as he can meet.

The real challenge for Key will be to balance the demands from National's financial backers while continuing the perception that National are 'moderate'. That perception is dependent on the relationship with the Maori Party who have been used as political camouflage. For the first three years National quietly lined up all the legislation and people required to ram their privatization agenda through so as not to spook the sleepy hobbits, but that strategy annoyed the money backers of National and they are demanding their corporate pound of flesh. Key infamously was caught out by wikileaks justifying the slowness of change to America by explaining that NZers had a 'socialist streak'.

The main problem for National is that our lowest voter turn out in 120 years means that 68% of the enrolled electorate didn't vote for this privatization agenda, leaving National alone to push this deeply unpopular policy. Some within National will understand that by 2014 there will be no 3rd term and so will be pushing for more radical reforms because they will have nothing to lose, where as the moderates and many backbenchers will see such extremes in policy ending their aspirations for 2014. This friction point will most likely erupt between English and Joyce.

Key's dream of being the next Holyoake and securing 3 terms may require a hell of lot more political skills than smiling and waving. To date, the terribly clumsy way he has handled himself under pressure with the deadfall response to the Epsom tea pot tapes, the Rena and his farcical explanation that Clause 9 had never been legally used for Maori all suggest the money trader's deal cutting skills simply don't provide the political vision required.

The lack of a Christchurch rebuild and the continuing lackluster economic conditions will keep the poor poorer and the middle classes nervous. National have to come up with much more clever ways to sell the genuine needs of private and public to work better together. I've been kind enough to give the new broadcasting Minister Craig Foss 3 new ways of using PPP's to support Public Broadcasting by creating the competition National philosophically claim to hold so dear in a guest column in this months Metro magazine. It's out on the 27th. I'll post a copy to Craig and Radio NZ.

LABOUR

Earth to Labour Party, where are you Labour Party? After confirming my worst fears about the intellectual capacity of the Labour Party, the coven went and picked a leader gift wrapped for them by David Farrar. The idea seems to be who will people like in three years, the money trader or the UN hero. Personally I think Cunliffe was ready now, and as a much younger man, Cunliffe would have suggested a real generational shift. That didn't happen, instead Shearer has been left propping up all the hopes and dreams of the Labour Party on his very, very, very green shoulders.

The fear is that Shearer needed the right wing faction of the Labour Party to win, (something the msm never clicked on) and so is not his own man. The sudden lurch to welfare reform, standing back from the Ports of Auckland dispute and dumping extending working for families for beneficiaries as well as the first $5000 tax free all point to the right wing within Labour now having Shearer's ear. Their strategy seems to be to take National voters rather than excite the million enrolled voters who didn't bother to vote.

The Labour mantra SHOULD be 'rebuild the middle class'. For the first time in their lives, the NZ middle class feel frightened and threatened, Labour should do everything it can to talk directly to them and argue that a secure and growing middle class enshrines the socially progressive democracy that makes NZ so strong and connects with Labour's values of social justice. Labour could argue that when the middles class do well, they don't feel bitter about taxes helping those less fortunate. Labour need to sell to the middles classes that their well being strengthens the social contract to help others.

If Shearer can't make any impact in the polls by the end of the year however, there could well be whispering campaigns over the Summer bbq season as any new leader would want 18months before the election.

GREENS

The Greens are the Party with the most to lose come 2014. With their highest ever vote, what exactly can they do in the house? Cuddling up to National when the policy is as toxic as it will be simply isn't an option for the Greens and to be frank, bike cycle tracks that don't live up to the jobs promised is hardly inspirational.

The Greens watered down their brand to a lime color to appeal to the suburbs, and it's worked, but what they can actually achieve now with so many more voices in opposition is moot. Gareth Hughes is a star performer who should be given as much ammunition as possible against Joyce, but his seating arrangement right at the back of the class seems a tilt by the leadership to keep their future threat as far from the front bench as possible.

National's clear vision to exploit as much of our mineral and oil resources as they can in 3 years will provide the Greens with much to protest about, but for 2014, the Greens have to start looking like a member of the Government to keep their double digit poll rankings.

To this end, the Greens have more reason than any other Party to start promoting and pushing for the 'progressive majority' consisting of Labour, the Greens and MANA. The Greens must have Cabinet aspirations to remain a relevant political force, those Cabinet aspirations can only be reached by the progressive left. They can never be met by being chummy with John Key and his drill baby drill mentality.

NZ FIRST

With China on the rise and an immigration policy that just keeps selling more and more economic sovereignty China's way, Winston has never had so much political fodder to whip up. As the Nation on TV3 pointed out, a large chunk of the Chinese community are mandarin only speakers and the mandarin Newspapers are directed editorially by the Chinese Government, Winston can play to the fears these issues provoke and is setting himself up for kingmaker in 2014.

As a young man at University (so the legend goes) he didn't identify as Maori, he identified as Italian. He is a man who has strived for acceptance amongst the blue bloods of NZ and being kicked out of the club by Jenny Shipley has eaten away at Winston ever since and the downfall over donations hurt him personally.

This return to Parliament is all about redemption for Winston, he wants blood, and knowing Winston, he'll get it.

The political freak show he has brought with him on his coat tails will shut up and do as they are told, so unless the blogs pull any of them up for personal issues, they will simply be Winston's shadow. The weakness in Winston's armor however is Winston. He is an older man now who has lived a hard life, ill health could be what brings him down. Without Winston, there is no NZ First.

MAORI PARTY

The Maori Party are a party in desperate decline. Minus Hone, they are shown up for the corporate Iwi backed vested interest that they are and this is at vast odds with the majority of Maori. Flavell had his 7000 majority stripped down to a mere 1800 and the MANA Party vote was only 800 behind the Maori Party in the Wairiki electorate, seeing as Flavell is the only one left after Pita and Turiana for possible leadership, his vulnerability is an even bigger issue.

The Maori Party have sold inclusion with Key as a strategic victory as they have voice on issues important to Maori, but the manner in which they were dealt to by National springing the removal of section 9 has shown that strategy up for what it really is, Maori begging for crumbs off Key's plate. Such a position is one Maori just can't live with and the pretense of a relationship that Key wants so as to look moderate is not enough of a reason to stay.

Expect story after story of questionable whanau ora spending courtesy of Winston to grind any perceived progress into dust.

The Maori Party will find obliteration difficult to avoid in 2014.

MANA

For a Party that didn't exist until 3months before the election, MANA's result that beat ACT is something to feel chuffed about. Hone's performance during the election impressed many, including John Armstrong and his continued rise as a voice for the poor will give him a statesman like quality. With the 3rd highest Facebook friend quota, MANA are a seed looking at 3 years of growth through flax root organizations and poverty focused policy.

I think the central tension of whether MANA is a Maori Party or a class party will be determined by economic factors. With a greater number of Pakeha in poverty than Maori, and Bennett's welfare cutbacks set to cripple beneficiaries, supporters of MANA will look to it for leadership on those issues impacting them directly rather than a purely Maori political voice. With the Party enshrined in Maori electorates and any sub 5% threshold list representation dependent on those Maori electorates, MANA could be a post race party that actually lives the Treaty partnership politically.

The most obvious display of this is the debate Hone has kicked off with Clause 9 of the SoE ACT. By welding Maori nationalism and economic sovereignty issues together, Pakeha see the Treaty as protecting their assets. This paradigm shift changes peoples perception of MANA and broadens the voter base.

ACT

It's such a basket case political party now, anything they do wouldn't surprise me. The self loathing ACT supporters feel propping up a homophobic bigot like Banks is enough to kill any oxygen off to this dead limb of a movement. The rot has set in, and the septic smell of demise wafts. How ACT handle the hand off of power as suggested in the tapes to Catherine Isaacs is far more convoluted now she's been appointed the Charter School's hangman.

The smartest move for ACT would be to set Vote for Change's Jordan Williams up as the next leader.

United Future

Peter Dunne will have a hell of a struggle on his hands to minimize the public service cutbacks his Ohahriu electorate will face and there's no way Katrina Shanks can keep her ambition in check not to go full tilt in 2014. Labour have to win Ohariu but with Charles seen as a Cunliffe supporter, the coven may punish by limiting electorate support. With Dunne propping up National's one seat majority, much of their sins will be painted as his sins.

Conservative Party

While not in power, the Christian vote had a real impact this election and certainly sapped National from an outright victory. How Colin Craig progresses now matters for National especially with the very real possibility their current political partners may not be worth anything by 2014. Colin should be talking with National now about an Epsom like deal in Rodney, if cut, National would have a very real chance of winning 2014.

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Dad's Army: Maori Party missing in inaction

The media had a fine time making hay of Hone Harawira's first day on the job faux pas when he missed a third reading vote; but what must we make of the Maori Party's complete absence from the chamber on the first day of the year?

NZHerald: [...]the Maori Party, whose MPs were strangely absent from the House.
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Had the Maori Party raised the issue of the Treaty clause in asset sales legislation during negotiations last year on the formation of the Government?

"No," replied Key.

In other words - Peters did not have to spell them out - the Maori Party had failed in its duties.

Brainless and toothless: the Maori Party are a Dad's Army in a position of invasion and combat and they are cracking up to be cracking up.

Te Ururoa Flavell's urging of Maori to go to the courts to thwart the government's privatisation plans were just absurd - the equivalent of Corporal Jones running about with his britches around his ankles pointing his gun back-the-front and making wild jabbing motions at random people. How an MP supporting the government (and with naked ambition to join the Ministry) can say to Maori that the only way to stop the government is to go to court is ridiculous - an admission of his own party's impotence.

Boasting about being at the table and having influence is plainly conceded as an illusion when he makes these sorts of remarks. This is the same MP who helped ram through National's version of the Foreshore and Seabed confiscation with a phony display of consultation. At its core was a denial of the right of Maori to go to Court and now they are playing the same game again, pinning Maori hopes of justice on a flaky process that is a foregone conclusion. On this point I note that not a single venue for the government's consultation hui will be on a marae - it will all be done on Pakeha turf. So much for influence.

And as for Waitangi Day... some things never change.

The media will lead with a 'protest' theme no matter what happened. The headlines are written in advance. And when they can't get pictures of the physical action of protest they just manufacture it: One TV network showed pictures from their camera of a Maori Warden pushing them back - because the camera operator was also part of the group that ran across the Marae atea! The media itself acts as provocateur. They played that scene repeatedly and even used the word "turned violent" to describe the incident. And yet how many arrests were made? None - no mention of any arrests that I can find. Funny how you can have the presence of many police and the armed forces and yet have "violence" break out with no arrests isn't it? Only at Waitangi.

And as for the remarks of the Pakeha-based duopoly parties that have controlled the government in alternating regimes for a century - National and Labour - they merely offer a reflexive regurgitation of the ideology of Pakeha mythology and act as the mouthpiece of the Pakeha version of the so-called Treaty 'grevience industry'.

The new Labour Leader said - startlingly, panderingly - that politics ought to be kept out of Waitangi Day... WTF!? This has been Shearer's first mistake as Opposition Leader. It is an absurd thing to say - that an anniversary of a contested constitution, and consequently the very basis of politics in this country - should be somehow a non-political event. This matter of State is a matter of politics and the presence of politicians shows that this is so, and to deny the political element is ignorant and foolish. However Labour looks, once more, to have assessed the ignorant and foolish vote as being of far greater importance than anyone elses's vote.

As for the PM, John Key's Marae episode was treated with kid gloves by the media, allowing his explanation of leaving early as being caused by protesters. His playing the victim and statement that all he wanted to do was have a debate is a fiction that passed unchallenged.

He was supposedly drowned out by megaphones from a protest contigent when he went to speak. However, given the chances of any protester being allowed a chance to speak into the official microphone seems remote to non-existent, the whole "debate" ruse where he implies he would have listened and then engaged in dialogue just seems preposterous to believe. It was the only chance the protest voice was going to be heard by the elites invited and can they be blamed for telling the necessary (albeit unkind) truths the other dignitaries would not?

What Key was really miffed about is that he didn't have a chance to deliver his scripted Marae banter that he thought would go over well - you can tell that by the jolly aw-shux way he started. And all it was ever going to be was PR - a photo op... politics. We know how shallow his commitment was from his decision to leave and what the people there said about it:

A Waitangi Maori elder says Prime Minister John Key disrespected Maori protocol when he refused to eat at the marae during weekend celebrations.

Ngapuhi kaumatua Kingi Taurua said Mr Key had spent too long chatting to corporate Maori, rather than eating and speaking with grassroots Maori.

"He didn't stay for a meal and that is totally against our policy that we feed our [guests] when they come on to the marae, even if it's just a cup of tea. It's the idea we bind together and become friends after that."

Mr Key retreated from the lower Te Tii Marae on Sunday after protesters drowned out the official speeches.

He also decided against walking among the Waitangi Day festivities, as he had done in previous years.

Shallow and hollow - a game of politics. The actions of a politician, not a statesman. However, with all that said and for all Key's faults and failings, his commitment to attend Waitangi is still a considerable distance ahead of the petty and pathetic way the previous PM skulked away from Waitangi and banned the Governor-General and the Navy from attending. Small consolations are all that can ever be expected.

Breastfeeding PC Nazis go mad (yawn).

Piri Weepu hits back at bottle advert ban

Piri Weepu has defended his decision to bottlefeed his daughter after footage of the All Black bottle-feeding her was cut from an anti-smoking advertisement.

The two-second glimpse of the Rugby World Cup star feeding his 6-month-old daughter Taylor was removed following concerns from pro-breastfeeding organisations the high-profile of Weepu would sway people away from breastfeeding their children.

Weepu told 3News his baby is allergic to dairy, one of the reasons why she is bottle-fed.

Breastfeeding PC Nazis gone mad huh? Are we really doing this? Yawn. Really?

You know any debate that attracts Bob McCroskie from Family First has dropped off the kitchen table top of polite suburban chatter, (I like to call his organization 'Family Fist' after their public love affair with the legal right to beat your children). Bob and his ilk manage to define family in a way that excludes, his attraction to any topic suggests the vultures have turned up and the issue has gone septic.

The furore that has erupted over Health professionals wanting to cut images of Piri Weepu bottle-feeding his daughter from an anti-tobacco advert is just another example of our nation of idiots minus any volume control. This has got bugger all to do with breast feeding, the (excuse the pun) breast beating here is our cultural stomach ulcer, 'Political Correctness gone mad'.

Alcoholism denial, rugby worship, beneficiary bashing and political correctness gone mad are the compass points of the NZ babble that passes for public broadcasting, this storm in a D cup is as embarrassing as it is tedious.

When it comes to socializing healthy norms, public health advocates have millions to spend against corporates who have billions in promoting the very opposite. That an anti-tobacco advert would want a unified standard of health norms is boringly uncontroversial. Asking for a cutting of a bottle feeding image is as acceptable as asking for a casual shot of Weepu drinking a glass of wine or bottle of beer to be cut from the advert.

That such a decision can lead to 'but men don't have breasts' arguments as some sort of intellectually justified counter is eye rolling. This has nothing to do with Fathers feeding their kids, or spending time with their kids or bonding with their kids, it's just an excuse for shire volk to get up on their favorite 'It's PC-madness gone mad' hobby horses.

It's terribly tiresome.

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Citizen A online now with Selwyn Manning & Phoebe Fletcher

Issue 1 - Is dumping Section 9 of the State owned Enterprise Act to National what the Seabed and Foreshore land confiscation was to Labour and how does breaking news that National are about to gut The Ministry of Maori Development bode for Waitangi Day?

Issue 2 - Sale of Crafar Farms - racism or economic self sabotage?

Issue 3 - The Megaupload arrests - forget Crafar Farms, Virtual Uncle Sam is here and he's handing out cyber spankings.

Citizen A broadcasts 7pm Thursday Triangle TV

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