Ardern’s Manus Island offer
The Australian Government has this week been attempting to undermine Jacinda Ardern’s humanitarian request that the refugees on Nauru Island should be treated humanely.
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Open Mike 18/11/2017
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Daily Review 17/11/2017
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The Panel – how do I love thee?
RadioNZ seems to be diversifying its pool of political commentators.
To you live, from bed! – Writehanded
Writer Sarah Wilson blogged about her experience of the recent Nethui event, looking at Nethui itself, corporate control and the internet, safety for kids, sex worker access to the net, disability access, the importance of digital inclusion and literacy, and the social/cultural consequences of the internet.
Open Mike 17/11/2017
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Daily Review 16/11/2017
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Open Mike 16/11/2017
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Daily Review 15/11/2017
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Open Mike 15/11/2017
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Daily Review 14/11/2017
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United has no future
United Future has announced that it will be wound up.
TVNZ pays Chief Executive a bonus after massive plunge in profits
TVNZ’s board has decided to respond to a massive plunge in profitability by paying it chief executive a bigger salary package and a large bonus.
Open Mike 14/11/2017
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Daily Review 13/11/2017
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Open Mike 13/11/2017
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Can Ben Mack please make his mind up
Herald lifestyle columnist has published two recent opinion pieces, the first wondering if Jacinda Ardern will be able to address the many and varied problems the country faces and the second suggesting that the Government is under the control of the extreme right. Can he please make up his mind.
Open Mike 12/11/2017
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Open Mike 11/11/2017
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Weekend Social 10/11/2017
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Doofus of the week
The award for doofus of the week this week goes to David Bennett for one of the most nonsensical speeches Parliament has ever seen.
Open Mike 10/11/2017
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Daily Review 09/11/2017
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Open Mike 09/11/2017
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TPP, Corporate Coup or “Free trade”?
However. TPP ( The trans Pacific partnership) is NOT a “Free trade” agreement. It is an attempt to cement in corporate power, to override inconvenient local Democracy, and collect rents from local communities in perpetuity.
Since when was giving large companies extra rights in law, and rights to extract even more economic rents, “Free trade”?
Daily Review 08/11/2017
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Suck it up political sleazers.
Winston Peters has launched a legal fishing expedition to identify who exactly breached privacy on his superannuation over payments. A problem that he shares with about 50 thousand other pensioners. Unlike them, his problem wasn’t trying to find money to repay it. It was that the breach was deliberately timed to be a classic dirty politics ploy, almost certainly by National, in the leadup to the recent election. I wish him good fishing.
Open Mike 08/11/2017
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Daily Review 07/11/2017
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Open Mike 07/11/2017
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Daily Review 06/11/2017
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Open Mike 06/11/2017
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Open Mike 05/11/2017
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So there was a housing crisis after all
The briefing to incoming Housing Minister Phil Twyford shows clearly that a crisis in housing developed under National’s watch.
@realDonaldTrump does not exist
For a brief moment, the internets rejoiced.
Open Mike 04/11/2017
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