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Comment on Naidoo deserves an apology
The implication that Mitchel discusses things with senior police that can’t be shared with the Labour party is deeply troubling. The police are not an arm of the national party. I can understand having private conversations with the commissioner and …
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Comment on Stuart Gnash
Name recognition has caused NZ First to be full of zombies and ACT to be full of clowns. Ex-MPS are ex for a reason.
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Comment on Which side is TOP on?
They are primarily libertarians. The difference from ACT is that they are not neo-liberal. They advocate for everyone paying their way, and not for handouts for the rich and externalising risks and costs onto everyone else. However they are not necessarily …
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Comment on Without pluralism within the climate movement, we risk handing the future to the far right
I think the authors confuse “movement” with “organisation” (they are not alone in this). If they want to form an organisation to work on climate action which is not ideological then they are welcome to. If they don’t like some aspects of Greenpeace or …
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Comment on What Should Be In the Plan for New Zealand’s Upcoming Oil Crisis?
How can there be a problem with petrol prices? After 5 years of clean car rebate and ute tax our fleet is mostly electric. Oh wait….
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Comment on Is Shane Jones really to blame?
Jones, (and Seymour) don’t believe in Anthropogenic Climate Change. They can’t – as it contradicts their view of reality. Luxon and the other National Party decision makers, know it is real, but choose to prioritise growth and sacrifice the future ( …
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Comment on The Tunnels project and SH 1 to Wellington Airport
LRT or trams work well if they are designed properly. level street entry for wheel chairs really make life easier for everyone. A lot of people find the current bus service unusable, and revert to ubers. synchronised traffic lights with trams never having …
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Comment on A different way of doing politics
When j.a left office we had more people in emergency housing, but not on the streets. Now we have fewer in emergency housing and nobody knows where they have gone. The j.a. government was not perfect, but lets not make stuff up to slander it.
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Comment on Tory Whanau leaves Wellington mayoral race for Māori ward
The right don’t despise weakness. They love to see it in their opponents, and attack it mercilessly. They are quite capable of being compassionate when it suits them (i.e. when it is one of them) – remember Muller’s problems when he got compassion from …
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Comment on Farewell Pope Francis
better than the average pope
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Comment on Misleading Billboards Are a Threat to Electoral Integrity
I take it as the SST finally realising that the Greens are the only party with policies that will reduce crime.
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Comment on The Unbearable Weight of Being a Useful Idiot
I sense a rather large heap of straw! Sure “tankies” do exist, but they get lost in the multitude of astroturf users. The author is in danger of exactly the same hubris that he/she is railing against. To defend Chinese incarcerations by comparing them with …
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Comment on Reviewing the Cook Strait Ferry fiasco
If the boats had been finished they would have been worth much more than we were to pay for them. Even if we sold them and bought cheaper boats we would be better off. How is the government planning to build new port infrastructure more cheaply. They will …
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Comment on Labour loses confidence in the Speaker
So fast track legislation for fast track development shows up the problems of fast tracking.
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Comment on The Fast Death of Our Major Forestry Mills
I spent far too much of my youth working in various jobs at Kinleith, so this hurts. I loaded paper on to railway wagons for destinations all around the pacific. Oji will continue to make paper at its plants in Japan. My question is how can it be cheaper …
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Comment on The great gaslighter
I don’t like the fact that Seymour is framing the issue and forcing everyone to respond. We can’t not fight back, but it is all completely unnecessary In the end it is a distraction while they pick our pockets.
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Comment on An Appeal To The Left: On Purity And The Media
You have to remember that news media is about entertainment. Golriz shoplifting a few thousand is entertaining in a way that a billion or 2 in tax cuts or cancelled ferries is not. So yes we need to support good journalism (with money as well as views). We …
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Comment on Waitangi Tribunal slams Treaty Principles Bill
He said that was “not only untrue, it is incompatible with the fundamental democratic value that all citizens are equal under the law”. We are a hereditary monarchy. Fundamentally in our inherited British law, some people have more rights than others.
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Comment on The great Pharmac backflip
Actually the way it has worked out has probably been the best outcome. Pharmac has got more money in a way that doesn’t influence its purchasing power. Pharmac’s success in bargaining down prices is due to its shortage of money. If the government just …
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Comment on Who would have thought that he used to run an airline?
Of course it would be cheaper to charter an AirNZ plane when needed, the same as it is cheaper for most people to use taxis than own their own cars. It is the convenience that you/we/they are paying for. The Air Force pilots need to fly, and if they are …
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Comment on NATO escalation danger
While there is an element of truth, in that Russian early detection of ballistic launches is a good thing, the rest is overblown. The F16s may be nuclear capable but they will operate from/by a non-nuclear Ukraine, and will not have nuclear warheads. …
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Comment on News and New Zealand Democracy
Even assuming that somehow journalists get paid enough for their work that we have a corpus of quality, objective news available, the question is how do we curate news feeds. When we only had one source of news, there was no choice, but the whole country …
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Comment on Bene bashing 6.0
never underestimate the average new zealander’s desire to see people punished.
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Comment on Should America elect a well intentioned but hapless President or an evil and dangerous President?
The majority of the electorate in the US have already made up their minds. the election will be decided by who doesn’t vote. Trump voters don’t seem to care what he does, or how he behaves, and losing court cases, or getting bad press just confirms their …
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Comment on National’s contradictory stance on Immigration
Whether immigration is right or not depends on ideology. Some people are clearly motivated by racism. Others just want to drive down wages. In any case it must be balanced with an increase in infrastructure and housing. Migration cannot solve NZ’s labour …
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Comment on Tobacco bans in NZ and the UK.
The ban is not prohibition. It is just an extension of the current restrictions. A shop is currently not allowed to sell tobacco to someone under the age of 16. Under the new law that would change in 2026 to be an age of 17, and then 18 the next year etc. …
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Comment on The long wait still continues
It is all very well to enjoy the ability to criticise the government without feeling like you are betraying our side, but if they do half of what they have committed to we will be significantly worse off. Economically we are guaranteed a recession by this …
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Comment on The Holocaust should be a lesson not a template
At the beginning of last century Palestine was occupied by the Ottoman empire, but the Turks never colonised as much as the British. The majority of the population were arabs. There were muslim arabs, and christian arabs and jewish arabs. Hebrew was only …
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Comment on The Holocaust should be a lesson not a template
Netanyahu is recruiting for Hamas, but he doesn’t care because it keeps Israelis living in fear and voting for him, and those like him. Hamas doesn’t care either, as they know they will win in the end and the sacrifices are necessary. Likud and Hamas need …
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Comment on Open mike 11/11/2023
A lesson for the next government! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-government-kpmg-consulting/
