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  Open Mike 13/01/2026
  by notices and features
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  The C Word
  by Mountain Tui
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  Open Mike 12/01/2026
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  Open Mike 11/01/2026
  by notices and features
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  Simeon Brown & Van Velden VERSUS NZ Firefighters
  by Mountain Tui
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  The death of truth
  by mickysavage
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  A Radical Gets Real Power and Runs Something Big
  by advantage
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  Open Mike 10/01/2026
  by notices and features
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  Affordability is not about prices – it is about extraction
  by Guest post
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  Open Mike 09/01/2026
  by notices and features
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  Open Mike 08/01/2026
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  Some random and unusual responses to the US invasion of Venezuela
  by mickysavage
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  Open Mike 07/01/2026
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  Simeon Brown sidesteps key issues in “catastrophic” Manage My Health breach
  by Mountain Tui
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  Open Mike 06/01/2026
  by notices and features
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  Open Mike 05/01/2026
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  Open Mike 04/01/2026
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  What David Seymour did during the holidays
  by mickysavage
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  Open Mike 03/01/2026
  by notices and features
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  Some random predictions for 2026 …
  by mickysavage
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  Open Mike 02/01/2026
  by notices and features
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  Israel only country in history to ban Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontière)
  by Mountain Tui
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  Happy New Year from The Standard
  by weka
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  Open Mike 01/01/2026
  by notices and features
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  Politician of the year?
  by mickysavage
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  Open Mike 31/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Open Mike 30/12/2025
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  Open Mike 29/12/2025
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  Greenpeace NZ: 2025: A year of wins, action and resistance
  by notices and features
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  Open Mike 28/12/2025
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  Open Mike 27/12/2025
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  How to Fall in Love with the Future: Excerpt
  by notices and features
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  Open Mike 26/12/2025
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  Open Mike 25/12/2025
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  Peters spits the dummy over India Free Trade deal
  by mickysavage
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  Open Mike 24/12/2025
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  Advantage’s 2026 predictions
  by advantage
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  Open Mike 23/12/2025
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  Ozzy Man on Bondi
  by weka
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  Open Mike 22/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Good work if you can get it
  by mickysavage
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  Open Mike 21/12/2025
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  The Tunnels project and SH 1 to Wellington Airport
  by Guest post
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  Open Mike 20/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Pirates of the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific. The White House National Security Strategy. 
  by eugenedoyle
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  Much ado about nothing
  by mickysavage
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  National takes $90 million awarded for Wairarapa Masterton Hospital – for itself
  by Mountain Tui
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  Open Mike 19/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Open Mike 18/12/2025
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  Holy feck
  by mickysavage
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  Open Mike 17/12/2025
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  NZ First repeals Foreign Home Buyers Ban Under Urgency, Late At Night, During X’mas Period
  by Mountain Tui
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  Open Mike 16/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Open Mike 15/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  It’s Changed Too Much For The Nostalgia Cure
  by advantage
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  Open Mike 14/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  i-Rex ferries would have started arriving today
  by Mountain Tui
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  $270 a year more in energy costs for householders – Government pushes fossil fuel / agricultural corporate welfare
  by Mountain Tui
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  Open Mike 13/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Atlas Shrugged. Part One: Trump’s Security Strategy blows up the American world order.
  by eugenedoyle
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  Open Mike 12/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Accelerating climate change under urgency
  by mickysavage
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  Open Mike 11/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Jason Walls’ Odd Choices & Chris Bishop’s Sly RMA
  by Mountain Tui
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  Open Mike 10/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Privatisation and Plunder
  by Mike Smith
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  Open Mike 09/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  “National is Getting NZ Back on Track”?
  by advantage
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  Open Mike 08/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Why the next election will not be easy for Labour
  by mickysavage
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  From In and Down to Outward-In: The Big Picture matters
  by Nigel Haworth
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  Open Mike 07/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  Open Mike 06/12/2025
  by notices and features
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  The Government’s 59 policy changes that are destroying the country’s climate response
  by mickysavage
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  New Zealand losing democracy rapidly
  by Mountain Tui