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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@strypey Public Debt is good and is for the good of the People. And should be there to improve quality of life for all.
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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