How can anyone say NZ news media have a left bias when The Post is publishing political "analysis" pieces by Luke Malpass, which read like a series of NatACT talking points.
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How can anyone say NZ news media have a left bias when The Post is publishing political "analysis" pieces by Luke Malpass, which read like a series of NatACT talking points.
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For example, Malpass uncritically parrots the NatACT talking point that public debt needs to be "brought under control". Never noting that NZ public debt is low by OECD standards;
https://briefingpapers.co.nz/public-debt-how-low-should-it-go/
Nor that public debt isn't necessarily the existential crisis it's made out to be. Nor that private debt to foreign lenders is just as much a potential risk to public finances as public debt, which is at least under some level of democratic control;
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2010/S00085/public-debt-pay-it-back-or-pay-it-forward.htm
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It makes me very cross that "Public Transport" and many other "Public" (ie Sovereign resources/utilities/health services) have been allowed to be sold and turned into 'Public Private Partnerships' (a fancy way of saying "theft from the public") where some corporation runs these projects at a profit for their own private enrichment and the public loss.
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