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Open mike 28/04/2020
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Green Party: COVID-19 recovery and investment in people and nature
https://twitter.com/EugenieSage/status/1254149123713798145 https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/1254283162969976832 Green Party press release from greens.org.nz ______________________________________________________________________________ As Aotearoa starts focusing on the economic recovery from COVID-19 the Green Party is calling for an economic stimulus package fit for the 21st century that puts people, climate, and nature first with significant investment in…
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Draconian Tourism or no Tourism?
Warning: this blog contains material that may offend Lefties and Greenies. Thanks to a tiny little virus, the NZ economy is gasping for air. One of the hardest hit sectors is the tourism sector, international tourism, to be more specific, although domestic tourism is dead…
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Open mike 27/04/2020
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How Covid-19 is smashing councils
Just as most industries in New Zealand are firing thousands of people to cut costs, local government is getting ready to do the same. It’s not unusual to consider Councils as stable objects that can be relied upon when times are tough. But what they…
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Open mike 26/04/2020
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dear sysop: on covid-19 debt
We put in guest posts and reposts here periodically. The reposts are from where we have generic arrangements with other sites, and we can just put them up. Usually they are on areas that none of our authors have covered or where an alternate view…
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The “Others”.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/303946/auckland-housing-%27we%27ve-lost-the-plot%27 "Othering" has long been a prop, of Governments that want to remain in power for the benefit of an Oligarchy, an "Elite", a small ruling class, or the ones with, "the money". Deflecting blame for economic and social issues on, an ethnicity, a class,…
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Trump’s not so bad: the inject bleach edition
A while back I wrote a post about the problem with that idea Trump's not so bad, an idea that comes from both parts of the left and the moderate right. The post was in light of stealing kids and putting them in cages, and…
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Open mike 25/04/2020
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Guest post – Bridges is done, who can save National?
Guest post by Clint Smith who is a former Labour Party staffer and Ministerial Advisor who served during the 2011, 2014, and 2017 elections, and early contributor to The Standard. He now runs Victor Strategy and Communications. I know what it's like to be where…
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Russel Norman: Climate change is harder to visualise than coronavirus, but no less dangerous
Executive Director of Greenpeace NZ, Russel Norman writes about the different responses to climate change and covid-19, and the things we can learn from the pandemic. From the Greenpeace NZ website. ______________________________________________________________________________The Covid-19 Coronavirus has so far caused more than 145,000 deaths worldwide. These are…
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Open mike 24/04/2020
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“The government will never do that”
Except they did. The New Zealand government raised benefits, they put in a rent freeze, they kicked all the tourists out of the country. Multiple governments have taken action in the past four months that have dramatically dropped GHG emissions, when most climate activists were…
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Our damaged rivers and streams
There’s a new report out from the Ministry for the Environment and Statistics NZ showing that New Zealand’s fresh water system is getting worse, all over the place, but particularly in the South Island. The full report is here. Newsroom has a good and lengthy…
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Will National roll Bridges before or after the election?
I am getting to feel sorry for Bridges. I have seen it before where for better or worse a caucus turns against a leader, gives up winning an election and starts to undermine him. There will be a variety of opinions. Some will think it…
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Open mike 23/04/2020
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Who will be National’s leader?
Will Simon survive? Or will Paula and Mark team up against him? Or will Judith somehow manage to persuade the caucus that she is the only chance they have of retaining their seats? Stay tuned …
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Pandemics and our privacy
A little chill went down my spine when I saw that the Ministry of Health was checking with our data spy agency the GCSB to enable full tracing of people to slow further outbreaks. The Ministry told RNZ that any data held about individuals would…
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Eat the rich
It appears that Richard Branson's Virgin Airlines empire may be on the skids. He is believed to be worth $8 billion but it seems that even the Atlasses of the business world are not beyond trying to become state beneficiaries from time to time. He…
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Open mike 22/04/2020
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Running for cover
More 1% Americans are heading our way, according to Bloomberg. The Texas company building underground bunkers is getting more enquiries. They're not running from the virus but fear the aftermath when the breadlines turn. Seeing the pictures of those queuing for food, sometimes packed close…
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Winston’s Worries
There are rumours bobbing around the beltway bubbles about the state of NZ First. The party has been awkward in Government, with bovine blusterer Shane Jones regularly putting his gumboots in his gob. NZ First have regularly stymied good policy, particularly if it affects 'industry',…
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BBQ time for National
With the rather severe dip in National's polling it is time to dust off the crystal ball and have a look at what may happen in September. Currently National has 56 seats in Parliament. If one of the polls is correct then this could be…
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When Bridges’ social media goes wrong
Yesterday was Jacinda's day. She obviously thrashed things through cabinet and despite some muscling up by NZ First she managed to get an extension of level 4 lockdown for another week. It is not as long as some of us would have wanted. For me…
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Open mike 21/04/2020
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Guest post – is it safe to lower the lockdown level?
Taken from a comment by Karl Sinclair. Question: Is it safe to move now from level 4 to progressively lower levels? Recommendation: Do not move to level 3 until we have: Robust testing strategies and capabilities in place to trace asymptomatic cases within our essential…
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New electorate boundaries
I missed it, but we got the new electorate boundaries on Friday. Now electorate boundaries simply don't matter as much as they used to because of MMP. These days mostly the only people who notice them are electorate MPs (or wannabe electorate MPs), political parties…
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Covid-19 decision day
Big day in politics today. Do we stay at level 4 or do we ease it up? If it was up to me I would extend it. The new infection rate has decreased rapidly and is at low levels. If elimination is the goal however…
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Open mike 20/04/2020
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