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Daily review 20/07/2026
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The Greens: Kiwipower and Power for All of Us
New policy suite out from the Green Party: Kiwipower and Power for all of us As with Labour's recent solar policy, this is intelligent policy design. Green politics has always included human wellbeing alongside the environment, and here we see the timely confluence of that…
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Open Mike 20/07/2026
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Open Mike 19/07/2026
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Four Promises, Fifty Years On
Norman Kirk once said people do not ask for much: someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work, and something to hope for. Fifty years later, it remains the most concise statement of what a decent society owes its citizens. It is also a…
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Dead Cats everywhere
The dead cat strategy is a well known strategy where a politician without fear says something outrageous to divert attention. As described by Boris Johnson: There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and…
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Open Mike 18/07/2026
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Daily review 17/07/2026
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Open Mike 17/07/2026
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Green Party calls for union membership as default setting for new employees
Press release from the Green Party _____________________________________________________________________ The Green Party is backing unions through the Automatic Union Membership Members' Bill, which would make union membership the default setting for new employees. "Workers are the backbone of our economy and this country. Unions give workers a…
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Daily review 16/07/2026
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Open Mike 16/07/2026
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Daily review 15/07/2026
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Open Mike 15/07/2026
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Does Parliament really need more shock jocks?
Michael Laws and Paul Henry are planning a return to Parliament. Laws as a potential New Zealand First MP and Henry as an Act MP. And just what we need, two oversized ego blowhards who both peaked over 20 years ago wanting a return to…
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Daily review 14/07/2026
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Sam Neill you believed in us
It is no longer a trivial thing that a person makes their fortune in the world and still chooses to invest and stay in the land of their childhood, New Zealand. For this, and many other good reasons, we can all be proud of Sam Neill.…
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Latest poll – too close to call
The RNZ Reid Research latest poll results were released this morning. Labour is on top at 34%. National continues to languish in the 20s and recorded 28.7%. It fell 2.1% and this appears to have shifted primarily to NZ First (0.9%) and Act (0.8%). The…
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Open Mike 14/07/2026
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Daily review 13/07/2026
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Fuck this shit
You'd have to be blind to miss the climate crisis now. Heatwaves in Europe killing thousands of people. Floods in New Zealand in the same places over and over. Insurance companies radically rethinking their business plans. The right looking increasingly like the climate clowns they…
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Open Mike 13/07/2026
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Open Mike 12/07/2026
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Open Mike 11/07/2026
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Daily review 10/07/2026
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Let’s celebrate Kiwi music
Happy Matariki everyone. Sorry I have been missing lately. Big stuff happening at a local level which need to be addressed to protect the interests of Westies. But can I present something for us all to do on Matariki day and can we celebrate Te…
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Open Mike 10/07/2026
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A Very High Impact Climbdown by Minister Bishop
Minister of Transport Chris Bishop has now finally admitted that National’s 2023 election promises in transport were “very ambitious, ” and pushed many of them into simply future unfunded ideas, at devastating economic cost. He has today significantly delayed many of the previously promised Roads…
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Daily review 09/07/2026
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Simpleton Brown: an idiot about power
Just been looking at the solar policies between National and Labour on RNZ "Labour promises subsidies, new loan schemes for installing solar". What I was most struck by was a statement by the gormless simpleton from National that displays a complete lack of understanding of…
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