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Something slightly deeper. Facebook is an out of control dangerous institution that neatly divides us up into our own tribes and lets us reinforce our beliefs with each other while at the same time throw rocks at the other tribes. It also allows the most…
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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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I reckon cruise ships are so enormous to make people feel that they are not really on a boat out on sea. They are like townships or small villages, with their own man-made and controlled micro-climates, not too dissimilar from the mobile cities in Mortal…
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The redacted version of the Mueller report has now been released. If there was any doubt Mueller's opening statement is that the Russian Government interfered in the 2016 presidential election “in a sweeping and systematic fashion”. And Trump and his supporters were involved up to…
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John Campbell is back on the telly! TVNZ have announced that that John Campbell will present TVNZ's Breakfast show, replacing Jack Tame. Tame will take over Q+A, which is currently hosted by Corin Dann. TVNZ say Campbell will start at the end of the month,…
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Well that was a bugger. The brutality of MMP Politics and New Zealand First’s withdrawal of support has meant that there will be no new capital gains tax introduced. I always thought that the proposal was brave and that the final version would be pared…
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Labour have announced they could not get a consensus within the coalition Government on the Capital Gains Tax proposed in the Tax Working Group's final report. Labour has decided not to pursue the matter during this term nor will it be an election 2020 campaign…
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Poor Simon. It appears that his leadership has entered into the stage where some sort of leadership coup is almost inevitable. Mainstream media commentary thought that he was safe for now because no one in their right mind would take on Jacinda Ardern while she…
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Keep it seemly.
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Donald Trump has a border problem. The number of arrests of undocumented immigrants on the Souther border in March was 92,000, up from 37,390 in March last year, For a president who campaigned on closing the border he is not doing so well. He recently…
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Labour and the Greens could govern alone, according to the results of the April 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll. The party vote numbers have Labour back to the honeymoon period polling in February 2018, with National slumping to its lowest support since September 2017. Labour…
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National Party list MP Tutehounuku (Nuk) Korako has announced that he will leave Parliament in a month's time. While the MP refers to his leaving as a retirement, he has only been in the House for 5 years. In that time he chaired the Nat's…
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I posted this post a week ago to highlight what a shambles National's culture review had developed into. Things have got worse. Simon Bridges gave a train wreck of an interview this morning on Radio New Zealand's morning report. Listen to it to marvel how…
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8+ minutes to read The boundaries between political and public debate are fuzzy at the best of times. They both take place in MSM and social media and to a lesser degree in Parliament (that includes Select Committees). One could call it participatory democracy but…
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