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Daily review 31/10/2019
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Open mike 31/10/2019
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Daily review 30/10/2019
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Snap election Britain
The UK will learn its political fate on Friday 13 December. MPs have voted in a one-line Bill to have an election on Thursday 12 November, in the middle of winter. BoJo's got his way if not quite the way he wanted. All bets are…
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Can’t Simon Bridges prove a double negative
It has been reported that the opposition leader's office has 31 people working in social media and only four working on policy development. And boy does it show. Today National is releasing its social services policy discussion document and I am sure there will be…
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Wellington mayor-elect flip-flops on sale of Wellington Airport
One of the first acts of Wellington mayor-elect, Andy Foster has been to reverse his stance on the council’s 34% holding in Wellington International Airport Ltd (WIAL). Foster, who has flirted with National, Labour and NZ First in his desire to enter parliament, won the…
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Open mike 30/10/2019
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Daily review 29/10/2019
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Small start to inflated bullshit.
I was reading one of Chris Trotters reflections at Bowalley Road this weekend which looked at the Corrections Amendment Bill 2018, that just passed its 3rd reading. "Putting The Check In Right-Wing Prisoners’ Mail" appears to claim that the whole of the bill was to…
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Unapologetic populism?
It seems that Wall Street is getting worried. One of the Democratic nominees has been described by a Wall Street broker as an unapologetic populist. Why you may ask. For saying that the country is too PC? For bene bashing for political gain? For railing…
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Brittle cities
Following on from my little warning about the Auckland-central government relationship, it's pretty hard to miss a variety of cities going nuts for apparently minor offences. There's no great regional uprising of the polis as per the Arab Spring or anything. Just a few big…
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Open mike 29/10/2019
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Happy Labour day
Happy Labour day everyone. Have a great day. And don't forget the importance of the Labour movement and of collective action in preserving and enhancing our quality of life.
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Open mike 28/10/2019
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How To Get There 27/10/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Open mike 27/10/2019
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Truth, boomer memes and the next election campaign
I think our democracy is in for a rough time. I get the feeling that the right in Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere think that the truth is a nice to have, and not a necessity when it comes to campaigning. Clearly winning is more…
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Open mike 26/10/2019
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British Justice tortures Assange
Craig Murray reports on the horror of Julian Assange's treatment by British so-called "justice." Read it and don't weep. You can see why Murray resigned from the UK foreign service; their diplomacy is just as bad. On the International Day in Support of Torture Victims…
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Daily review 25/10/2019
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The Government-Auckland relationship
The Sky City National Convention Centre fire brings the Government Auckland relationship to a very sharp edge. It was tense before. It's worse now. They are both co-investors in City Rail Link. It's the biggest single project risk either of them have taken. It will…
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Dog whistling Housing Corp tenants
Housing has not been a simple issue for the Government. Initial expectations were sky high and progress of Kiwibuild has been slow. On the up side the five year bright line capital gain policy and the policy setting restrictions on overseas ownership have been working…
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Fire in the Sky – Smoke in the city
From Joe Carolyn at Unite Union. Workers in SkyCity have just come through a traumatic few days. The massive fire at the Convention Centre was seen by many of our Christian union members as an act of God – “Babylon is burning”. A company that…
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Open mike 25/10/2019
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Daily review 24/10/2019
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Parliament votes to give disabled people the right to a good life
Only that didn't happen. Instead, the New Zealand Parliament is going to let the voting public decide next year if we should have the right to kill ourselves if we are terminally ill. I'm theoretically in favour of right to die legislation and state support…
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Farmers given a chance. I think National will screw it up for them.
One of the less endearing traits of National is their ability to screw almost anything up for short-term advantage regardless how it impacts those that they are purportedly trying to protect. Usually this comes from the results of in-fighting within the party. Luke Malpass and…
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Open mike 24/10/2019
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Daily review 23/10/2019
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Sneaky Simon somersaults on support for Terrorism Bill
So National has decided to really play politics on law and order and in as cynical an example of politics as you can imagine has backed down from a previous promise to support the introduction of the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill. Jane Patterson at…
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