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Open Mike 20/03/2026
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Our Willingness To Earn US Approval, Via China-Bashing
By Gordon Campbell, cross-posted from his Werewolf The Chinese Embassy is right. The recent joint statement by Australia and New Zealand condemning China’s actions in the South China Sea reads like a relic from a bygone colonial era. A weirdly misplaced concern, too. At a…
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The oil crisis: “We live in challenging times”
Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon did a press conference this afternoon on the deepening oil crisis, RNZ replay below. The quote in the post title is Willis' first words.My initial impressions: The government has shifted position and is now directly talking about the need to…
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Open Mike 19/03/2026
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Failure to lead – is New Zealand is walking into an energy shock?
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be fired over the imperilment of the New Zealand economy by his government’s laissez-faire response to the coming energy shock. The failure is compounded by a willingness to stand by Washington which will only help turn this into a long…
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Open Mike 18/03/2026
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Why scrapping Labour’s climate change policies has made the oil crisis worse
National must be, or should be, ruing the day it decided to dismantle some of Labour's climate change policies. Not only is it a bad idea to sabotague attempts for Aotearoa to do our bit to address our emissions. I quite like living in a…
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Greenpeace on NZ’s Fuel Supply Resiliency Plan
Greenpeace's submission on the government's draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan. Gen Toop 26 August 2025Introduction Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on the Draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan. Overall, Greenpeace submits that the draft plan will not achieve energy resilience or reduce New…
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Open Mike 17/03/2026
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PSA: Help Us Now – 23,000 Home Support Workers Hit By Petrol Price Hikes Urge Govt. To Act
PSA press release via Scoop, Monday, 16 March 2026, 3:40 pm The PSA is urging Finance Minister Nicola Willis to walk the talk and deliver support for a key group of hard working New Zealanders struggling with rising fuel costs from the Iran war -…
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Open Mike 16/03/2026
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Open Mike 15/03/2026
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The oil crisis – What would Jacinda do?
The Iranian war will severely test Christopher Luxon's leadership capabilities and so far he has been very quiet. Apart from bungling New Zealand's response to the illegality of the US and Israel attacks on Iran Luxon has been missing. And this made me wonder. How…
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Open Mike 14/03/2026
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Will Israel/US wreck the Gulf States & Iran?
The US and Israel have for decades pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state. We are now in the opening days of what may be the final, decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the…
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Open Mike 13/03/2026
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The oil crisis: she’ll be right?
I sat down last night to catch up on what is happening with global oil supply (something that would normally make my eyes glaze over). It reminded me of those early weeks of the pandemic when we first started hearing truly alarming stories out of…
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Lies, damned lies and Shane Jones’ Oil Refinery take
NZ First and Shane Jones in particular have been making a song and dance about how the previous Labour Government was responsible for the closure of the Marsden Point Refinery. For instance in Parliament this week he said: I never said that the Labour Government…
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Open Mike 12/03/2026
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What Should Be In the Plan for New Zealand’s Upcoming Oil Crisis?
With more time to plan than the Labour government had with COVID, a responsible government should be planning the whole of New Zealand for 91 petrol at $4 a litre and potential supply constraints beyond existing supply on shore and within the EEZ. In the…
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Open Mike 11/03/2026
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Open Mike 10/03/2026
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What will Winston do if National sacks Luxon?
Winston Peters has been in this scenario before. Back in 1998 the National Party moved to replace Jim Bolger with Jenny Shipley. The process was pretty brutal. Wikipedia records that "Shipley grew increasingly frustrated and disillusioned with the cautious pace of the National-led government under Jim…
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Open Mike 09/03/2026
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Open Mike 08/03/2026
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The smallest coffins are always the heaviest.
The US-Israeli killing of children must be stopped. Three more schools and a major hospital have been bombed in Iran and more in Lebanon by the US-Israeli military, all within the first week of launching their latest war. This is a pattern, not ‘collateral damage’.…
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Open Mike 07/03/2026
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Labour Gains Ground
Curia and TPU, which I’ve consistently said has reasonable public comparable, political polling data, despite its history, shows: Labour gaining 12 seats National lose 10 seats Greens lose 2 seats NZ First gaining 5 seats ACT lose 1 seat TPM lose 2 seats That makes…
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Dead man walking
It has been a hell of a week for Christopher Luxon. He has clearly been under immense pressure. His response to the US invasion of Iran has been inept. His position, that New Zealand did not support the invasion but would not go into the…
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Open Mike 06/03/2026
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