Open Mike 30/01/2019
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Media
Daily Review 29/01/2019
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Open Mike 29/01/2019
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The Blue Green oxymoron
National appears to be well advanced in the formation of a new puppet party, one with an environmental theme that will present a challenge to the Green Party.
Open Mike 28/01/2019
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About that $100,000 National Party donation
Fran O’Sullivan has correctly stated that the investigation of the $100,000 donation made to the National Party that was partitioned to hide it should be of much greater concern to the New Zealand Police than Sarah Dowie’s texts.
Open Mike 27/01/2019
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Open Mike 26/01/2019
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Daily Review 25/01/2019
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Herald names Dowie as the sender of that text to Jami-Lee Ross
Sarah Dowie has been identified as the MP under police investigation for sending the text to Jami-Lee Ross saying that he deserved to die.
Taxpayers Union receives funding from British American Tobacco
Sam Sachdeva at Newsroom has connfirmed that the Taxpayer’s Union (*not a real union) has received funding from British American Tobacco.
Open Mike 25/01/2019
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Daily Review 24/01/2019
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Stuff is now an official mouthpiece of the National Party
Mark Mitchell is an early contender for most stupid utterance by a politician this year. And Stuff has packaged up his utterance and uncritically made it a headline.
Open Mike 24/01/2019
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Daily Review 23/01/2019
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Open Mike 23/01/2019
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Daily Review 22/01/2019
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National starts political year beneficiary bashing
National has kicked off the year by reverting to type and engaging in a classic example of beneficiary bashing based on a distortion of official statistics.
Open Mike 22/01/2019
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Daily Review 21/01/2019
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Karma Cameleon
Cameron Slater is seriously ill. The Whale Oil blog will carry on without him, but in the meantime, Cam is asking for help.
Open Mike 21/01/2019
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Open Mike 20/01/2019
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Family First thinks there is a Cafe porn watching crisis
Family First thinks that there is a crisis of porn watching at cafes. And has commissioned Curia to see if others think the same.
Open Mike 19/01/2019
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Sroubek; Richie Hardcore Text Released
The text sent by Karel Sroubek supporter Richie Hardcore has been released. Is it the knock out blow we were promised?
Open Mike 18/01/2019
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No confidence?
Live feed of the UK debate in Parliament.
National shafted us with the MOM privatisation
Five years on how are the benefits from the Mixed Ownership Model privatisation process the last Government engaged in working out?
Open Mike 17/01/2019
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Well done Gillette
Gillette has come out with this outstanding ad which for some strange reason has invoked a negative response from some.
Open Mike 16/01/2019
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Beware the Ides of May
It’s D Day for Theresa May’s Brexit plan. Will Jeremy Corbyn finally put her out of our misery?
Chinese Herald changed Herald articles to be more China friendly
Stuff has reported that its opponent, the New Zealand Herald, has via its Chinese version amended stories to make them more acceptable to the Chinese Government.
Open Mike 15/01/2019
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