Winston returned to his spiritual home this weekend, the place he knows he’ll be the youngest person in the room and the guests special token Maori friend - Tauranga to deliver his “Real” state of the nation - which was as low on facts as you’d expect from the party that thinks DEI is bad and you should show them your genitals before entering a bathroom.

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Sure, it was impossible for the government or voters in 2023 to know a future US president and his mate would start a war that lead to the fastest petrol price increase in decades - but alternative transport options that would be handy now were gutted already because of other reasons they were being funded in the first place and the coalition doesn’t like “woke".

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There’s a few tools we get trained in to get meaning out of media - and they can be used to see why a comment from a politician trying to sound relatable and totally not racist comes across as the complete opposite to people - this is what we call semiotics, the study of the meaning of words and symbols together.

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