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As I type this another storm has hit Tamaki Makaurau. The North has been particularly badly hit. Mangawhai received 300 mm of rain in a seven hour period. Auckland's average rainfall in the past for February was 65 mm. And out west Scenic Drive has slumped…
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Here’s my prediction: Labour will not just win the October election, but it will complete a landslide of similar proportions to the 2020 election. As more polls are published and the recent trend becomes apparent, National will panic again and dump leader Christopher Luxon, installing…
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Maureen Pugh strikes again. She has previously sided with the anti vaccination movement, prevaricated over being vaccinated herself and then hurriedly deleting a pro protest post she put up on facebook. She was also described as being f*&king useless by Simon Bridges three National leaders…
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Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation as Scotland’s First Minister was something of a replay of Jacinda Ardern’s lightning bolt in Aotearoa last month. Both charismatic leaders were subject to widespread abuse, mostly online, and while each was, for obvious reasons, reluctant to cite this as their…
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According to Finance Minister Grant Robertson the repair bill for the recent cyclones will be similar to the direct cost to government of the Canterbury earthquakes, in the $13 billion region. Even if a chunk of that is, as he says, absorbed by insurance and…
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Just over seven months from the election the Labour government has been granted as great a political momentum as that leading into the 2020 election. Labour now shows all signs of pulling out of the death-stall it was trapped within under Ardern, to pulling up…
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This week before Cyclone Gabrielle hit there was a noted level of scepticism about how bad things would get. Newstalk ZB was, surprise surprise, particularly bad. From Charlie Mitchell at Stuff: “People contacted me from Napier saying some schools were shut there,” broadcaster Kate Hawkesby said on…
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Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog The first real test of any political leader is how well they perform in a crisis. For New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins this test came very quickly. At the time of writing, New Zealand is recovering from Cyclone…
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I thought that I would get Chat GPT to write 500 words on the Standard and this is what it came up with. The blog www.standard.org.nz is a left-leaning political blog based in New Zealand. It was founded in 2007 by Lynn Prentice, a software…
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Chris Hipkins has so far not put a foot wrong. Since he became PM he has quickly and competently reformed the Cabinet and jettisoned policies that were for one reason or another causing problems. And he has quickly asserted control over two massive storms, the…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog The resignation of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today took many by surprise. Her leadership of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scotland since 2014 has seen support for her party, and the cause of independence, increase significantly. Whilst…
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Greenpeace's petition: CUT CLIMATE POLLUTION FROM BIG DAIRY New Zealand’s intensive dairy industry depends on vast amounts of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser to fuel grass growth to feed too many cows. The industrial dairy sector is the biggest source of the climate pollution which drives the…
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