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Daily review 19/11/2019
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Not a good look
Questions have been raised about New Zealand First's party financing arrangements after it was disclosed that the party was receiving loans from a party aligned foundation. From Guyon Espiner at Radio New Zealand: A mysterious foundation that loans money to New Zealand First is under…
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Open mike 19/11/2019
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Daily review 18/11/2019
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Goodbye shitty landlords
The government announced new tenancy protection regulations yesterday. From RNZ, The proposed changes include: Limiting rent increases to once every 12 months Banning rental bidding Ending no-cause evictions An increase to financial penalties Tenants will be able to add minor fittings and improvements, such as…
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Common-wealth Government
Since I've been complaining about lack of structural reform from this government, I felt it was time to test an idea out. I thought I'd sketch out a common accountability framework for the government. It goes like this: 1. WHY If the goals of eradicating…
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Open mike 18/11/2019
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Austerity – who should pay for the financial crisis?
Originally Posted on Nick Kelly's blog My previous post talked about the 2008 financial crisis and the long shadow it casts over politics and society still a decade later. In the UK, the financial crisis was followed by a decade of austerity. These policies included significant cuts…
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Green MP Gareth Hughes speaking bold truth ahead of his retirement at next election
In this interview with Stuff journalist Henry Cooke, Gareth Hughes talks about wanting to spend time with his kids while they're still young, and his frustration with the slowness of change in the face of the enormity of the climate and other crises we are…
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Just another typical week in US politics
I seem to have been saying this about American politics for the past couple of years or so. But what an amazing week it was in American politics. And the question has to be asked, how is it that Donald Trump is still President? All…
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Open mike 17/11/2019
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How To Get There 17/11/19
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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Two Referendums Too Many
It is official, we’ll have to cope with two referendums at the General Election (GE) next year. One will be asking us whether cannabis for recreational use should be legalised and the other whether voluntary euthanasia should be allowed. One argument against having these referendums…
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Open mike 16/11/2019
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The 2008 financial crisis casts a long shadow over UK politics
Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog. During the 2019 UK general election there will be new issues and developments on a daily basis. But there is a major issue this election isn’t new, but remains highly relevant. The 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent policies…
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Daily review 15/11/2019
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Fifty shades of meh
There was a small protest at Parliament yesterday. The participants were from farming backgrounds and were complaining about the Government's apparent intention to destroy farming communities throughout the land. What could they have been referring to? Collette Devlin filed this backgrounder. The article contains this…
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Open mike 15/11/2019
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Daily review 14/11/2019
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End of Life Bill passes
David Seymour's End of Life Bill passed through Parliament last night by 69 votes to 51. We are now facing a referendum at the next election. From Boris Jancic at the Herald; Parliament has passed a bill legalising voluntary euthanasia in a historic vote, and…
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Open mike 14/11/2019
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Compassionless Conservatives?
Originally posted at Nick Kelly's Blog The Conservative Party in the last week have had two serious PR blunders. One was Jacob Ress Mogg’s careless and hurtful comments about the victims of the Grenfell tower fire. The second was Prime Minsters Johnson’s comments that flooding…
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Daily review 13/11/2019
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Open mike 13/11/2019
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Daily review 12/11/2019
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Learning to win fast
So Australia is burning, California has this year had unprecedented fires and the North Pole is melting. Japan has had typhoons that, shock horror, caused the cancellation of two Rugby World cup games. India and Bangladesh have been hit by unprecedented flooding, and Tuvalu and…
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Open mike 12/11/2019
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Daily review 11/11/2019
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The Middlemarch fire and Dunedin’s water supply
Dunedin City encompasses a very large area and draws a significant portion of its water supply from catchments further inland. The Otago Daily Times is reporting that the Middlemarch tussock fire over the past few days has impacted Dunedin's water supply, possibly for months. About…
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Sustainable Party launches
This took a while. With the advent of the Internet it is normally really easy to gather a crowd, at least if you have a good cause. Put up the necessary website, use Facebook to promote it and gain 500 members and voila, you have…
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