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Daily Review 28/02/2017
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The Nats’ new ‘swimmable’ rivers aren’t
I've been waiting for the dust to settle a bit before wading in to the Nats' water quality fiasco. Nick Smith bungled the announcement hugely, allowing the perception that they were going to reach their new goals by allowing twice as much shit in "swimmable"…
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Off the track
The Auckland Fabians have a lecture on Thursday at 6:30pm at Lecture Theatre 5 , 12 Grafton Road, Owen Glenn Building. University of Auckland. There is parking beneath the building. Sounds like it will be worth going to. Off the Track is the 10th State…
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National bolster their moribund blue-greens
I read this morning in Politik that Vernon Tava has left the Greens and appears to be leaning towards National. It really doesn't surprise me. After one of the debates in 2015 between the Green candidates for leader, I had a talk to each of the…
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Homeless crisis hidden in plain sight
National's economic geniuses are at it again, spending money on emergency housing grants 15 times faster than expected because they have (so they say) no idea how big the problem is. That is of course incompetent, but it is true to the extent that the…
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Bill’s bigoted drug reckons vs the evidence
It didn't take Bill English long to revert to type - Bill English says employers are regularly telling him that Kiwis can't pass drug tests. Some folks he knows are telling him stuff and he's basing immigration policy on it? That's some Trump-level reasoning right…
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Open Mike 28/02/2017
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Daily Review 27/02/2017
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Two more Labour candidate selections
Two more Labour electorate candidates have been recently decided: New Labour candidate announced for Bay of Plenty Mrs Warren-Clark was announced as the Labour candidate competing for the Bay of Plenty seat late last week. Merivale School principal Jan Tinetti is the Tauranga Labour candidate.…
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Housing crisis what housing crisis
What unfortunate timing. It appears that the effects of the housing crisis have been seriously underestimated by the Government and the amount set aside for emergency housing grants for this year has been spent four times over, in three months. From Newshub: The Government has…
class war housing national paula bennett Politics same old national the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
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Green Party Member’s Bill to protect freshwater
Press release from the Greens at their weekend conference. _______________________________________________________ Green Party launches Member’s Bill to protect our freshwater James Shaw MP on Sunday, February 26, 2017 - 13:49 The Green Party has today launched a member’s bill that will keep water from underground sources,…
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You can’t afford a house because of – plants!
I'm used to hearing some pretty pathetic excuses out of the National government. But this - this will really take some beating: Prime Minister Bill English blames environment for high cost of housing The high cost of housing "hanging over" young families is a result…
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Open Mike 27/02/2017
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