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Open mike 24/10/2024
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Daily review 23/10/2024
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Notice: Protest Locations Today
Today is the union protest day. A few of us explored a health privatisation protest which I felt would be positive, but the logistics and resources available to us was miniscule - and after some discussion, we felt joining the union one was best and…
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Open mike 23/10/2024
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Daily review 22/10/2024
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Government succumbs to Sensible Sentencing Trust pressure and makes Three Strikes Bill worse
You have to hand it to this Government, it is utterly predictable. Faced with a barrage of problems from the Health Crisis to a potential Auditor General investigation into Casey Costello's links to Philip Morris to Andrew Bayly suggesting that he thinks ordinary workers are…
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Open mike 22/10/2024
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Luxon Tells The World Andrew Bayly Lied
This is an excerpt from the Mountain Tui substack post In today’s press conference, Christopher Luxon re-affirmed his government’s commitment to bringing back the live animal export ban: claiming that National will do it to a “gold standard”. Heard of that term before? Well lobbyists…
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Daily review 21/10/2024
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Doomed?
“We’re doomed” was Private Frazer’s inevitable response to any crisis in “Dad’s Army”. It echoes the Aberdonian farmer in “England, their England”, who thought it was just conceivably possible that a man of exceptionally powerful brain might be able to imagine a state of things…
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Open mike 21/10/2024
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Will This Be a One-Term Government?
Republished from System Change Aotearoa A year on from the 2023 general election, David Seymour responded to the latest One News-Verian poll, showing a 5% lead for the government, by gloating. “The coalition is working so much better than our enemies hoped!” Sad to say, but…
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Who is the loser?
Andrew Bayley has committed the cardinal sin as far as National Party strategists are concerned, he has laid bare National's complete indifference to working people. From Radio New Zealand: Commerce Minister Andrew Bayly has apologised for his conduct after a complaint that he repeatedly called…
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Open mike 20/10/2024
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Open mike 19/10/2024
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Chris Trotter’s Arguments for the Treaty Principles Bill Are Flawed
This is an excerpt from Mountain Tui's substack article: Aotearoa's Big Lies Yesterday, Chris Trotter, who labels himself a "libertarian socialist" - and writes regularly for Newstalk ZB and other publications - came out swinging against opponents of David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill ("TPB"). Trotter…
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Daily review 18/10/2024
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Tana is waka jumped
The Greens have clearly struggled with what to do about Darlene Tana. They have for some time opposed the Waka Jumping law. They have taken a principled view, that the law gives to the leadership of a party too much power and that it has…
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Open mike 18/10/2024
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Daily review 17/10/2024
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Ferry crisis what ferry crisis?
The Cook Strait Ferry issue is getting to a critical point. An announcement was expected in July. Willis said at the time that a decision was coming soon. But we are still waiting. And there is a growing sense that National's preference to remove rail…
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Open mike 17/10/2024
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77% of NZ’s business leaders say a CGT or equivalent is needed as chorus for CGT increases
How many successful CEOs can manager Christopher Luxon snark at after running a government airline with a near monopoly on the domestic market? After taking a crack at ANZ Boss Antonia Watson for her support of Capital Gains Tax last month, a new line of…
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Daily review 16/10/2024
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Open mike 16/10/2024
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Daily review 15/10/2024
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Hauraki Gulf Marine reserves are being Jonesied*
The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill is due to have its second reading in Parliament soon. It was introduced by the last Labour Government and referred to the select committee process. When it was introduced then Minister Willow Jean Prime said this…
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Open mike 15/10/2024
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Daily review 14/10/2024
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Twelve months of this Government
This Government was elected 12 months ago. And I don't think any of us could have appreciated how bad it would have been. The public service has been decimated. Wellington is a shadow of its former self and the drying up effect of the flow…
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