Jacinda Ardern’s second term in office will be more challenging than her first, even accounting for such crises as the Christchurch massacre and Covid 19. In 2017, when Labour was languishing in the points and her taking on Labour’s leadership just weeks before the election,…
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One of the good things about 2020 is that we're so taken up with our own crises we don't have the incessant focus on the US election that we had 4 years ago. I've been largely able to ignore the debate here about this year's…
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Hi all, sorry about missing the post for the previous Roy Morgan poll- I've been having connection problems for a wee bit over a month that just hit at the wrong time for me to be able to write a post for that one, and my…
Along with the grey weather, the weather around our local net is downright annoying at present. There are a massive increase in attempts to break into this site via backend systems and brute force front-end logins, a surge in scans from the search engine spider…
Since the end of the Cold War, New Zealanders have observed a U.S. foreign policy beguiled by a set of illusions about the world order, illusions that cost them, allies, and enemies the deaths of hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded. Illusions for which…
It was an interesting day in the Herald yesterday. It published the result of a poll which suggested that most Aucklanders were actually pretty chilled about the lockdown. But the headline suggested that the situation was much more complex. The first two sentences were: Auckland…
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I am surprised that National leader Judith Collins' husband David Wong Tung has not had his social media thoroughly scrubbed and cleaned. Because it looks like it could have used a good cleaning. This appeared yesterday. https://twitter.com/BobbyMiller202/status/1300231360926236677 And a dive into his social media, which…
Idiot/Savant at No Right turn writes: RNZ has a major scoop this morning: the New Zealand Police are trying to set up a live facial recognition system: Police have been quietly setting up a $9 million facial recognition system that can take a live feed…
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New Zealand’s local and regional councils were given until August 31 2020 to sign up to a ginormous fund that would help them improve their water, wastewater, and stormwater systems. It’s a truly massive carrot paired with a sizeable regulatory+governance stick. Part of it is…
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The last three years have been an interesting time for the Green Party. Back in 2017 for a short period of time the Greens looked like they may overtake Labour in terms of voting preference and become the dominant opposition party. I remember Metiria Turei's…
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For the last 30 years, earth scientists have been warning that Greenland was nearing a tipping point into complete disintegration. Now authors of a new study published in Nature "Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat" has claimed that,…
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I thought that the sentencing of the Christchurch Mosque mass murderer would be something of a circus and do nothing but open up old wounds and allow the person in the dock to spread his message of hate. But so far it has been a…
In an unfortunate choice of words National's David Bennett has promised that if National is elected then the Government's water reforms will be "gone by lunchtime". From Jason Walls at the Herald: National has come under fire from the Government's agriculture and environmental Ministers for…
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