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Open mike 31/07/2021
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Daily review 30/07/2021
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Nurses refuse pay offer
NZNO media release NZNO members who work in district health boards (DHBs) have voted by clear majority to reject the latest offer in their negotiations with the DHBs, saying it fails to address the chronic and systemic safe staffing issues in a way that would…
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Open mike 30/07/2021
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Are we really ready to escalate to war with China over Taiwan?
"What will the role of New Zealand be should China invade Taiwan?" was by far the most popular question for Jacinda Ardern after she spoke at a NZIIA seminar last week. Promising to be benign, Ardern said we are "very predictable," cited alleged human rights…
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Daily review 29/07/2021
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Citizenship is a human right
There is a poor lost soul who is both a New Zealand and Australian citizen who in 2014 chose to travel to the Middle East to be part of a community supportive of Islamic State. Her name is Suhayra Aden. She has spent most of…
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Open mike 29/07/2021
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Daily review 28/07/2021
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“We have to talk about sex. It’s important”
Contemporary NZ Marxist blog Redline have put up the video of Sussex University philosophy professor Kathleen Stock being interviewed by Redline’s Daphna Whitmore. It’s good to see this because Stock is one of the most evenhanded and thoughtful presences in the gender/sex wars. She is…
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Open mike 28/07/2021
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Daily review 27/07/2021
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Letting private enterprise handle Covid quarantine is a really stupid idea
The real leader of the opposition, David Seymour, is advocating that we allow private enterprise to take over the country's quarantine system, the system that so far has managed to shield us from everything but the occasional community outbreak of covid that has been dealt…
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Why aren’t Labour acting on the housing crisis?
Bernard Hickey has a post up about the clusterfuck that's socioeconomics in New Zealand, Dawn Chorus: The scandal of worsening housing-and-power-driven child poverty We all knew the housing supply and winter power crunch for poor renters was awful, but the latest revelations emphasise the need…
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Open mike 27/07/2021
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Daily review 26/07/2021
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Why isn’t govt hitting utes much harder?
Aotearoa has been super sizing its vehicle fleet for over a decade and given Jacinda Ardern claim that Climate Change as her generation’s nuclear-free moment, why is her government not smacking ute owners and other gas guzzlers much harder than just the feebate? Transport creates…
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Our modern Olympics
The Olympics is an opera that runs on one orchestrated symbol after another, and this Tokyo Olympics is a superabundant tragedy. From the earliest edges of each person's living memory, we can pull out moments where 'our' person won against all the odds, and for deep…
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Open mike 26/07/2021
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The many and varied takes of Des Gorman on covid
One of the most consistent critics of the Government's Covid performance is Des Gorman. He was previously a Professor of Medicine in the faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Auckland University. His doctorates were awarded for in-vivo brain injury research. During the last National…
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Open mike 25/07/2021
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What If Boris Is Right?
Now that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has "opened up" the United Kingdom from many of the Covid19 strictures that it had undergone, there is a lot at stake to his reputation and indeed to the lives and livelihoods of its citizens. There are no…
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The bubble pops
Just when you thought that the world has Covid under control the virus has chosen to reply by letting us know it is still alive and kicking, and even more dangerous than before. In Fiji the spread is out of control and Vietnam which had…
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Open mike 24/07/2021
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Daily review 23/07/2021
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Greens: a Warrant of Fitness for rental homes
From the Green Party website Posted by Chlöe Swarbrick July 20, 2021 12:00 PM The Green Party is launching a petition today calling on the Government’s Healthy Homes Standards to be backed up with a proper Warrant of Fitness (WoF) for rental homes. “Warm, dry,…
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Open mike 23/07/2021
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Daily review 22/07/2021
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Keep the faith, deep greenies
Here's Kate Raworth, of Doughnut Economics fame, https://twitter.com/KateRaworth/status/1416428555903328256 People can follow the link to look at the report, but the point of the post here is to note how change happens, and that it is happening. It looks too slow, and it is too slow,…
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Act likes some rights but not others
I hope the Free Speech coalition is taking note. Because this week Act has proposed policy involving some pretty outrageous breaches of human rights on groups within our country. The funny thing is that Act has tried to make out that it wants to protect…
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