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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: 2017 was an explosive year for Māori politics and the election reshaped the political landscape in a dramatic fashion wiping out Māori Party and MANA Party aspirations while leaving the Labour Party with an enormous obligation to Māori voters..Read more
11 Dec 2017 06:42
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: Don Brash has reared his angry voice last week to attack the use of Te Reo on Radio New Zealand..Read more
05 Dec 2017 06:36
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MARTYN ' BOMBER' BRADBURY: It's not only the new Labour led Government who are finding the transition from opposition into power a difficult one to traverse, many activist groups seem to be struggling with how to engage constructively beyond mere opposition..Read more
28 Nov 2017 10:21
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: 4 days ago the Keystone pipeline leaked 795 000 litres of oil causing a shut down and testing for groundwater contamination. Indigenous peoples, farmers and environmentalists all warned the Keystone Pipeline had the risk of leaks, the company downplayed any such concerns..Read more
22 Nov 2017 14:15
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: Since when did we dislike Pacific Islanders so much? I don't know about you, but this weird myopic media focus on Pacific Island 'violence' after the League games currently playing up and down the country seems bewilderingly racist and vicious doesn't it?.Read more
13 Nov 2017 10:21
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: One of the many challenges for the new Government is how to combat the racist Prison system in New Zealand..Read more
08 Nov 2017 06:33
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: Could the largest Pacific Island and Maori city in New Zealand be unintentionally white washed by Labour's new affordable housing KiwiBuild project?.Read more
01 Nov 2017 13:45
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: Labour Day became a national holiday in New Zealand in 1899. It was to commemorate and celebrate the rise of worker powers and how the earliest Pakeha settlers coming to New Zealand fought to create a fair balance of power between the boss and the worker..Read more
25 Oct 2017 13:57
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MARTYN BOMBER BRADBURY: As we celebrate a magnificent political win - let's remember those who could not survive National's 9 years in office We should be ecstatic. Big money, big corporate farming and big business interest....Read more
21 Oct 2017 22:18
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: There are times when the mainstream media coverage of two events manages to say more about the real bias at work within the media than the news worthiness of their focus..Read more
13 Oct 2017 16:06
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: Statistics released by Statistics NZ show that the Asian-NZ population will overtake Māori by 2038....Read more
04 Oct 2017 12:00
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MARTYN BOMBER BRADBURY: The reverberations and ramifications of what has happened this election will be felt in many places, but most acutely I believe within Maori politics..Read more
28 Sep 2017 14:25
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: Allegations of widespread Maori voter suppression made by Massey University Political Lecturer, Veronica Tawhai require an immediate response from the Electoral Commission..Read more
18 Sep 2017 15:00
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: There has never been an election that was so dependent on the Maori electorates.Read more
11 Sep 2017 13:27
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MARTYN ' BOMBER' BRADBURY: You know it's election time when National starts promising harsher and more punitive law and order policy.Read more
28 Aug 2017 17:00
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Martyn Bomber Bradbury: I've been lucky enough to get a look at the research that comes out of these focus groups and to be honest it almost makes me cry in frustration..Read more
07 Aug 2017 12:06
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: NZ First's extraordinary claim that deciding the fate of the Maori electorates with a binding referendum is not only dog whistle politics at its worst, it's also incredibly unfair and utterly unjust..Read more
24 Jul 2017 15:33
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY OPINION: The front cover of last months racism issue by MANA magazine says it all..Read more
16 Jun 2017 08:39
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: Marae TV employee Blake Ihimaera had a phone message accidentally left on her phone from a company they were looking to hire a car from..Read more
29 May 2017 07:21
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: The negative reaction by Andrew Little and the Labour leadership at the suggestion of Maori prisons by Kelvin Davis gives an insight into how difficult reforming the public service for Maori will still be even under a Labour Government..Read more
12 May 2017 11:51
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: The fear that seems to underpin so many of those voices attacking the Waitangi Tribunal's response that the failure to lower Maori incarceration and reoffending amounts to a Treaty breach needs to be acknowledged..Read more
18 Apr 2017 17:03
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY: If we look at the opinion poll stats 6 months out from the last 3 elections, National over poll by a significant percentage, Labour over poll by a smaller percentage, the Greens are static and NZ First rises when Labour's vote collapses..Read more
05 Apr 2017 09:06
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY OPINION: The astounding allegations of possible war crimes conducted by the NZ SAS in a 2010 revenge attack in Afghanistan released by investigative journalists Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson have been met with denial by the NZDF and the Government..Read more
27 Mar 2017 14:57
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY OPINION: The chair of the National Party's Kaikohe branch, Alan Price, has responded to a surge in youth crime and public disorder by suggesting that corporal punishment needs to be brought back into schools in the Far North..Read more
20 Mar 2017 12:00
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MARTYN 'BOMBER' BRADBURY OPINION: It says much about the advances New Zealand has made that the Whanganui River has been granted legal personhood, but the surprise in the media still suggests a long way to go..Read more
20 Mar 2017 07:36
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