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Date published: 11:20 am, September 11th, 2026 - 15 comments
Categories: benefits, national, same old national, Social issues, welfare
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Under National the MSD thinks that food is not an essential need. And it pushed through under urgency a botched up law change which cut the benefits for tens of thousands of elderly kiwis.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 11th, 2026 - 1 comment
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Date published: 2:59 pm, September 11th, 2026 - 14 comments
Henry Kissinger is reported to have said “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Australia should take note, enmeshed as it is with US bases. The fallout may affect us too.
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Date published: 11:14 am, September 11th, 2026 - 24 comments
AI techies are sound the alarm on where AI is going and how dangerous it will be. We can and should act now to prevent that.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 11th, 2026 - 24 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 10th, 2026 - 7 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 10th, 2026 - 88 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 9th, 2026 - 3 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 9th, 2026 - 27 comments
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Date published: 8:20 pm, September 8th, 2026 - 32 comments
The Taxpayers Union has now gone offline so that we have no idea where its funding came from. And if Curia polling is paid for by Atlas aligned organistions.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 8th, 2026 - No comments
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Date published: 1:06 pm, September 8th, 2026 - 17 comments
“Labour is fully committed to the Paris Agreement and will put New Zealand on course to meet its targets…. Walking away from it, as National and its mates are planning to do, would be giving up on our kids’ future and impose huge costs on our economy.”
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Date published: 11:29 am, September 8th, 2026 - 27 comments
Last weekend saw a continuation of right wing parties coming out with inane policy announcements that make a media splash without any hard questions being asked.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 8th, 2026 - 63 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 7th, 2026 - 12 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 7th, 2026 - 86 comments
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Date published: 7:43 pm, September 6th, 2026 - 179 comments
“The Green Party has today announced a plan to break up the supermarket duopoly by creating a publicly owned supermarket chain called KiwiMart, as part of its Affordable Kai election policy”
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Date published: 9:56 am, September 6th, 2026 - 4 comments
This week the Government reluctantly reversed its intent to allow homeless teenagers to be prosecuted if they did not move to somewhere less safe when required to move on by police.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 6th, 2026 - 34 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 5th, 2026 - 15 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 4th, 2026 - No comments
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Date published: 9:36 am, September 4th, 2026 - 32 comments
Anyone remember it was just a year ago that businesses and government politicians were crying about the loss of natural gas availability?
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 4th, 2026 - 16 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 3rd, 2026 - 4 comments
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Date published: 9:03 am, September 3rd, 2026 - 1 comment
The UNEP’s new report ‘Limiting Overshoot’ outlines a pathway called “overshoot, peak and decline” to minimise and adapt to the impacts of an exceedance and an eventual return to 1.5°C.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 3rd, 2026 - 90 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 2nd, 2026 - 6 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 2nd, 2026 - 104 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 1st, 2026 - 16 comments
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Date published: 4:25 pm, September 1st, 2026 - 22 comments
Christopher Luxon has asked Air New Zealand to explain what caused its recently announced significant loss. The answer appears to be a decision made by Air New Zealand while he was Chief Executive.
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Date published: 10:51 am, September 1st, 2026 - 18 comments
“Nurses who trained here should be able to work here. A good job. A future here at home. Better starts now.” – Chris Hipkins
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