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Daily review 06/04/2022
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Last chance to see or finally acting as if our lives depend on it?
Tues 5th April, early evening, I'm trying to decide if I can write a post about the latest IPCC report on climate change and its warning to humanity. I google some basics. It's overwhelming. Instead I'm thinking of stories of acquiescence. There's a scene in…
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Change nothing
You get to a point – and Ardern must be close – where the most you can do is hang on. Her two terms leading the country have been beset by successive crises, each apparently greater than the previous. March 2019 saw a massacre on…
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Open mike 06/04/2022
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Daily review 05/04/2022
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Why in the middle of a pandemic an immediate change to Orange is magical thinking
National's friends are in unison complaining that the Government should be announcing now when we will be back into Orange. It seems that every day different media interview restaurant owners and business owners complaining about the lack of certainty. Opposing voices are few and far…
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Open mike 05/04/2022
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Daily review 04/04/2022
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Climate Action Mondays: slow fashion
We are in the long emergency, the ground of which is the climate and ecological crises. This requires change across all sectors of our communities if we are going to have any chance at averting the worst case scenarios (6C rise in global temperature means…
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Open mike 04/04/2022
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3 Waters Reform Must Happen
If you’re out there in ZB land and believe that water management should be democratically elected, you won’t find respite here. The 3 waters are stormwater, drinking water, and wastewater. About 85% of this is currently managed by Councils. Of all those who do a…
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National still has a culture problem
This week National found itself the centre of media suggesting that its treatment of women is still not acceptable. A couple of Young Nats were outed as being behind the trolling of Christchurch left wing female politicians. Christchurch city councillor Sara Templeton was on the…
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Open mike 03/04/2022
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Open mike 02/04/2022
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Daily review 01/04/2022
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National announces receiving $1.8 million in recent donations
Last week I posted about how Act had within the past few weeks received $950,000 in donations. National has guzumped this and has just announced that it will shortly be filing declarations announcing that it has received $1.8 million in donations all of which were…
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Will John Key stand for National in Tauranga
The Standard has learned from a normally reliable source that John Key is considering seeking the National Party nomination for the Tauranga seat. His motivation is dismay at Chris Luxon's performance and the realisation that if National is ever to win power again it will…
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Open mike 01/04/2022
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