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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: As the planet is plunged into the economic whiplash of the growing global pandemic, the dance between Māori and Pakeha politics in 2021 will become far more aggressive in tempo and demands..Read more
21 Jan 2021 15:30
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: An example from social media of the total power the Ministry of Social Development has over the lives of beneficiaries emerged last week and reminded everyone of the punitive welfare culture we still have in NZ..Read more
18 Jan 2021 13:12
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: After the lack of leadership displayed during the Waikeria Prison Riot, Minister Davis must be urgently reviewing the current state of the NZ prison muster..Read more
14 Jan 2021 09:51
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: 2021 has barely begun and NZ Politics is already reeling on a multitude of fronts which will continue to shape what is already looking like a year that may manage to eclipse the trauma of 2020..Read more
11 Jan 2021 14:12
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Kelvin Davis has been the quiet achiever on prisons..Read more
04 Jan 2021 09:36
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: New Police Minister Poto Williams is doing exactly what I predicted her appointment would do, focus less on the get tough on crime rhetoric and focus more on failing social policy, so the announcement this week that Police have reviewed the wording of their deeply flawed police chase guidelines should surprise no one..Read more
23 Dec 2020 09:39
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: 1300s - Māori settle Ihumātao..Read more
18 Dec 2020 08:51
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The latest investigation by Stuff shows an alarming 90% spike in warrantless searches, and surprise surprise, Māori are four times more likely to be targeted by Police for these extreme search and surveillance powers than Pākehā..Read more
14 Dec 2020 13:54
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The report into the Christchurch Terror attack was released this week and I don't believe I've ever read a more craven attempt to abdicate responsibility by the State in my entire life..Read more
11 Dec 2020 17:12
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Opinion: Maori Party, Labour & Greens ran the most positive & honest social media election campaigns
Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Interesting academic data from Victoria University on how the different political parties used social media this election..Read more
07 Dec 2020 09:42
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: It's interesting that we can waste time on debating if neckties should be banned in Parliament but no one bats an eye when the Māori Party were banned from talking in Parliament..Read more
02 Dec 2020 09:54
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Explosive new Oranga Tamariki footage was released on Newsroom late last week and before the weekend, Oranga Tamariki had a Judge censor the footage and have had the story removed on the grounds that it identified the 4 Māori children at the centre of the latest uplift controversy..Read more
30 Nov 2020 10:57
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The Children's Commissioner have just released the second part of their report, into Oranga Tamariki, Te Kuku O Te Manawa, and it is damning in its denunciation of the internal processes and decision making that leads to babies taken from mothers at or just after birth..Read more
25 Nov 2020 10:39
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There is a glaring problem inside our electoral system, it's a structural bias that penalises Māori in a way that Pakeha are not..Read more
20 Nov 2020 09:57
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: There are real political dangers in the drive-by Labour and the Greens to remove the tail coating rule within MMP..Read more
16 Nov 2020 11:09
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: With the Māori Party picking up a second MP after the count of the specials, a possible new political alliance opens up for Labour and Māoridom..Read more
11 Nov 2020 10:15
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Nanaia faces her first challenge as Foreign Minister with the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank..Read more
06 Nov 2020 15:12
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The incredible line reality that Māori make up a quarter of the new Cabinet makes the Māori Caucus the most powerful in NZ political history..Read more
04 Nov 2020 11:33
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The preliminary cannabis referendum results have just come in and with over 480 000 specials still to be counted, 46% have said yes to cannabis reform while 53% said they were happy with racist drug laws..Read more
02 Nov 2020 09:00
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: If the only solution that we arrive at with the mutation that is Oranga Tamariki is to divert funding to a Māori Authority to run, then we have failed miserably in this crucial debate..Read more
27 Oct 2020 08:57
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: One of the most interesting changes with a majority Government is the re-emergence of the importance of the factions inside a Party..Read more
23 Oct 2020 12:15
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: I started 2020 arguing that Māori would be a decisive voting block in this election, but not even I could have hoped for the kind of result we ended with..Read more
19 Oct 2020 08:30
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Unbelievable turn out in the Māori electorates right now with double the advance voting this time last election..Read more
16 Oct 2020 12:09
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The promise of MMP was that it would create Governments that ruled with agreement rather than the tyranny of the majority. .Read more 12 Oct 2020 11:39
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Prison reformers this week voiced their fears that prison reforms have stalled under Labour and that while the prison muster has fallen, we are still seeing half of those released reconvicted of a crime within 12months of release..Read more
09 Oct 2020 17:36
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