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Open mike 13/09/2020
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Open mike 12/09/2020
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Daily review 11/09/2020
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The Greens sticking to their guns (and their values)
The Greens just stepped up their election campaign. This is a bold move and suddenly I'm excited about the election again. Jason Walls covered a range of things in the NZ Herald yesterday. On what a post-election deal between the Greens and Labour might look…
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National’s infrastructure bank
National’s infrastructure bank proposal bugs me. It’s yet another entity out of the hands of politicians - and that brings with it a high risk of trouble. LIGHT RAIL The first comparison I’m making is to NZ Superannuation. They are the people that brought in…
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Open mike 11/09/2020
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Checkpoint shroud-waving over Queensland politics?
Today's Checkpoint descended into shroud-waving in the case of a New South Wales family not able to visit their dying father in Queensland because of the strict border closure. As our health officials note, "bereavement issues" are where most care is needed to prevent the…
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Daily review 10/09/2020
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Labour voters, if you could vote to keep the Greens in parliament would you?
Thought the Standardistas might want to have a crack at this. Vote on twitter if you have an account, and/or comment below. Play nice. Labour voters, if you lived in Auckland Central which candidate would you vote for and why? Chloe Swarbrick, in case the…
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Covid, the US President and the Evangelical churches
Some interesting news both locally and internationally over the past few days. Bob Woodward has written a book that suggests that for political reasons associated with his re-election chances Donald Trump downplayed the severity of the Covid threat, even though he was well aware of…
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How has Conservation Fared Under This Government?
I’m going to give this government just 5 out of 10 on the conservation front. I’m not going to cover the RMA, since the legislation hasn’t taken shape yet. Nor am I broadening this out to water quality and farm practices. But let’s have a…
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Open mike 10/09/2020
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Daily review 09/09/2020
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Labour announces tax policies
Labour has today announced new tax policies. The Greens were first out of the blocks in announcing policies a couple of months ago are proposing a reasonably radical shake up of the tax system. From their policy release: Here’s what our Fair Tax Plan includes:…
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Open mike 09/09/2020
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Daily review 08/09/2020
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What did Brownlee know about Southern Response’s misleading and deceptive conduct?
I am just asking questions. But they need to be asked. What did Minister of CERA Gerry Brownlee know about Southern Response's apparent policy to mislead claimants about the amount they should have been repaid? Because this was not a one off event, it appears…
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Will NZ First make it back into Parliament?
He has had more lives than your average cat but surely this is the last election for Winston Peters and NZ First. The polls are against him, although they have been against him in the past. But this election there is a great deal of…
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Open mike 08/09/2020
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Daily review 07/09/2020
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Landlord lobby group hopes National Government will ditch warm flat requirement
I suspect this is not the sort of endorsement that is actually helpful. But a landlords' organisation has told their members to hold off making their flats warmer and drier until after the election. From Ben Leahy at the Herald: Landlords should wait to see…
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Open mike 07/09/2020
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Assange’s torture and the death of journalism
On the eve of Assange's extradition hearing in London, award-winning freelancer Jonathan Cook has written a scathing indictment of corporate journalism's collusion in ignoring his official torture. I posted an example of that here last year, where Richard Harman denied Assange was a journalist at…
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Covid – New Zealand has similar levels of freedom to Sweden
Issues relating to Covid continue to dominate New Zealand's politics. In Auckland it feels like we have dodged a bullet. The numbers of new non returning infections continues to trend downwards although regrettably there have been two recent deaths. Fingers crossed we may again have…
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Open mike 06/09/2020
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Labour’s two tier welfare plans
Could Labour's first major policy announcement be a permanent unemployment insurance scheme similar to that advocated for by ACT? Ouch. That's the headline from a piece at interest.co.nz looking at Grant Robertson's idea of a two tier welfare system. The proposal is to have an ACC-like…
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Will our cities revive?
Our cities are the nation's lungs; they recycle and accelerate external goods and transform them internally into faster circulation. Auckland and Christchurch have had tens of billions invested in them over successive local and central governments, but has this improved our strength or wealth as…
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Open mike 05/09/2020
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Daily review 04/09/2020
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“Reds under the Bed”.
Everyone has recently had an education on "Socialism" working in practice. "The sound you are hearing is" Economic ideas being shredded. And a graphic illustration of the shortcomings, of under regulated "Free market" Capitalism, Globalism, tax cuts for the rich, and the mania for monetising…
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