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Daily review 20/05/2025
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What would the Greens’ inheritance/gift tax mean for farming?
Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick was on Q&A on Sunday, fronting up to Jack Tame’s questions about the Greens’ alternative budget. I was looking forward to this, because I had a lot of unanswered questions from the budget release last week. One of the main ones…
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Open mike 20/05/2025
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Daily review 19/05/2025
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Privileges Committee recommendations are partisan, indefensible and racist
Tomorrow is D Day in Parliament. What will happen to the Privileges Committee recommendation in Parliament will be fascinating. I do not expect Te Pati Maori to take this lying down. And I am sure that the Green Party and at least to an extent…
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Jacinda Ardern’s speech to Yale graduates: leading with empathy is a strength
In this remarkable, deeply socially intelligent ten minute speech Jacinda Ardern speaks of the peril of the global inflection point we are currently poised upon, particularly in relation to the US, and reminds us of what works. https://youtu.be/C6SHxyCQtyw?t=951
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Open mike 19/05/2025
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RNZ’s report on its Israel/Gaza coverage is not credible
Cross posted from Scoop. Radio New Zealand’s decision to conduct a review of its Israel-Palestine coverage post-7 October 2023 is commendable. It commissioned Colin Feslier, an experienced and respected communications expert to undertake this work. He delivered his report in March 2025. Feslier’s brief was…
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The Coalition Continues to Defund Science
The Coalition has a warped view of what science is, of its purpose, of its role in and for society, and of what should be funded with public money (clue: not much). It has culled another science fund and so far, it has only been…
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Waitangi Tribunal wants halt to Regulatory Standards Bill introduction
The Waitangi Tribunal has with some urgency released an interim decision on the Regulatory Standards Bill. THe urgency is so that it could beat the impending introduction of the Bill. Under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1976 the Tribunal loses jurisdiction once a Bill is…
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Open mike 18/05/2025
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Open mike 17/05/2025
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Daily review 16/05/2025
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Te Pati Maori and the Privileges Committee
Judith Collins was at her insufferable worst yesterday when she announced the Privileges Committee recommendation that Te Pati Maori MPs Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, and Rawiri Waititi be suspended from Parliament for their behaviour that happened at the conclusion of the first reading debate on…
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The Empire strikes back
National is obviously hurting. Its internal polling must show that it is haemorrhaging support over its undermining of the Pay Equity system. On Tuesday various National talking heads in unison launched an attack on Labour accusing it of lying and misrepresenting what was happening. And…
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Open mike 16/05/2025
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Daily review 15/05/2025
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The Green Budget
Last night I couldn't find the Green Party video from yesterday's Green Budget announcement, which might be a good thing because I ended up watching the BHN episode where Pat and Chewie talk with Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson (video below). I've been increasingly finding…
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Louisa Wall – This Is Not Feminism – It’s Fiscal Evasion Dressed in Lipstick
Reprinted with permission It’s not often I find myself needing to respond to a sitting Minister of Finance. But when Nicola Willis dismisses decades of feminist struggle for gender pay equity as “a grievance industry” and calls a journalist’s pointed social commentary “sexist slurs,” it…
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Open mike 15/05/2025
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Daily review 14/05/2025
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Open mike 14/05/2025
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Daily review 13/05/2025
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The worst Finance Minister ever?
During my life I have witnessed a number of Finance Ministers. I have no recollection of who did what in the 1960s, essentially because I was a kid. The 1970s were dominated by Rob Muldoon, a drunken dwarfish character whose insistence that markets do what…
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Open mike 13/05/2025
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Daily review 12/05/2025
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We’ve Lost Australia
New Zealand was once in a sustained Australasian partnership. Now, with New Zealand tracking further and further into policy extremes, Australia – and our children – are leaving New Zealand behind. In the course of two weeks we have seen new extremes of the policy divergence…
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Open mike 12/05/2025
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Get ready for the Regulatory Standards Bill
The recent sense of shock and awe is strong. Following on from the undermining under urgency of the current Pay Equity scheme the Government intends to introduce the Regulatory Standards Bill. And its clear intention is to sideline the Waitangi Tribunal by again bringing forward…
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Open mike 11/05/2025
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