A cross-party podcast episode examining New Zealand's infrastructure challenges, youth retention in the face of Australian competition, and the dangers of populist immigration rhetoric, advocating for evidence-based, inclusive, and ethical political discourse.
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How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 5 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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I retired now, so I can be rude to them. But I mean, it does raise a more fundamental question, uh, and it's um something I personally am very concerned about, uh, and it's that move to uh populist right-wing politics. And uh I'm what you'd call an old-time liberal conservative, he's a social democrat. We overlap to a huge extent, but uh the results in England last night gave me the hebe jeebies, and in Scotland, which was anti-Brexit, 26% of them voted for Farage's party. So there's no rational basis for it. Labour's lost the assembly in Scot uh in Wales for the first time since quasi independence, uh, and we're going to get a horror result in New South Wales tonight in the Farrah by-election, which will probably be won by those lunatics from one nation. So it's a very serious issue. Uh, if the centre cannot hold, and if we get the fraying of political parties uh like we're seeing, unfortunately happening in uh the United Kingdom, where it's totally frayed now. You've got about six a six-party system based on last night's results. You're gonna get more and more of this ugly right-wing populism where you have people uh and well, I see it uh in this country, uh it immediately immediately comes up with anti-tangatafenwa, that great oxymoron Māori privilege. Uh they have too much, they're getting too much hatred of immigrants. The comment made about uh butter chicken tsunami was profoundly offensive, especially coming from one who looks as though he enjoys butter. And you know is this the kind of country we want. I'm fond of saying uh my dear 96-year-old mum is in BUPA. The people who look after her are the Indian immigrants and they're fabulous people, and I love them very much, and I hate the fact that they are insulted in this way. So the choice is very clear. We've got to stand up, in my opinion, for liberal conservatism or social democracy, and reject uh the clarion calls to nastiness and divisiveness, and we folks are not immune from it.
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populist rhetoric mirroring European political trends
Democracy Briefing: Importing the immigration wars for election yeara growing threat to centrist, evidence-based governance
Amalgamation, Press Release Policy and the Populist Threat (Live From Booktown)Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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