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Daily Review 24/11/2015
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Greenpeace – Climb It Change – protest
This morning Greenpeace supporters received an email beginning: As I write this, I'm preparing to board a Government research ship in Wellington to stop it beginning another deep sea oil survey. And if you got this email, that means I've made it! To be honest,…
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Housing NZ refers homeless to CAB for emergency housing
Citizens Advice Bureaux have a proud history of giving advice and assistance to people. The first CAB was opened in Ponsonby in 1970. Since then many different offices have been opened and hundreds of thousands of people have been helped. One thing they do not give…
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Boots Theory: Flag referendum 1
Originally posted at Boots Theory. I'm a politics nerd, so of course I was excited to receive my voting papers in the mail for the first part of the flag referendum - despite strongly disagreeing with the way it's been conducted, the fact it's a…
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Blueskin Bay
Blueskin Bay is one of those idyllic places you drive past on State Highway One and think, wow, unspoiled and underdeveloped New Zealand beach that is incredibly pretty, and the tiny number of people within those houses are so, so lucky to have chosen to…
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Tacky
"Jonah Lomu tribute shows need for a new flag, PM says". Well that's a new low. Speaking of amazingly powerful images with a fern / flag motif -
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Rashbrooke on inequality
Max Rashbrooke has another excellent piece on inequality in The Guardian: New Zealanders need to share our common wealth. Let's start by discussing inequality The emergence of a young, monied elite whose inherited wealth is highly visible is a new thing for New Zealand –…
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Key doesn’t like being shown up by Little
Good to see Andrew Little taking some action on this issue: Andrew Little to speak out on treatment of Kiwi expats in Australia visit Labour leader Andrew Little hopes a visit to Australia will "shake the tree" on the country's treatment of Kiwi expats who…
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Open mike 24/11/2015
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Daily review 23/11/2015
https://youtu.be/9hmDZz5pDOQ It has been one of those days ...
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Graph of the day
Via The Economist: The Iraq war started in March 2003 http://econ.st/1lwnAmZ
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Phil Goff for Super City Mayor
The worst kept secret in New Zealand politics has now been confirmed, Phil Goff is running for Auckland Super City Mayor. The formal announcement was made yesterday. He is clearly well prepared and rightfully has front runner status at this stage. His speech was carefully…
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Key’s rapists attack a dead cat that keeps biting
Two weeks ago John Key was in a corner for failing to act to represent and protect the rights of Kiwis detained by Australia on Christmas Island. As usual he went on the attack, but this time he went too far, ranting that Labour was…
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Open mike 23/11/2015
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