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Daily review 10/08/2020
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Vote No to Cannabis Reform
Ten reasons to vote against the proposal: 1. It's In Your Professional Interests You - and your employment - become unsafe for driving or for work under the influence of THC. The government tried to clean up this mess with a law enabling testing of…
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Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government: Style over substance or a guiding light for progressive politics?
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Just over three years ago, a few weeks before leaving New Zealand, my friend Rob and I were in Burger Fuel on Cuba Street the hipster trendy part of Wellington. Piko was renting an office space in the old Wellington…
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IT doESN’t aDD up
For a few days now Gerry Brownlee has been peddling dog whistle conspiracy theories that the Government is hiding bad news about Covid and we should all be really concerned. On August 5, 2020 the Spinoff commented on a press release that he had provided…
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Covid recovery and bouncing forward
One of the founders of the Transition Town movement, Rob Hopkins, talks about how Transition Towns have responded to the covid pandemic, and how this helps us prepare for the coming climate crises. Central to the Transition movement from the outset has been the idea…
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Open mike 10/08/2020
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National’s list
It's out. And it appears to be bolted together hurriedly rather than carefully crafted. And a lot of it may be academic. Such is National's current polling there will not be many list places to go around. Four months ago I had a guess at…
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NZ First is in trouble in Northland
More bad news for NZ First. It looks like their hope that Northland could provide a get out of jail free card is misplaced. The special Colmar Brunton poll result this morning had National's Matt King on 46% and Shane Jones a distant third on…
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Open mike 09/08/2020
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July 2020 Roy Morgan Poll
The latest Roy Morgan poll is yet another rogue result, claiming that new National Party leader Judith Collins has actually cost the Tories votes. That can't be true, surely? On the day that National have released their party list, this will be a reminder to…
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Jacinda’s speech to the Labour campaign launch
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=625849445002350 E ngā mana e ngā reo Ngāti whātua ngā mana whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau, e tika te kōrero Ehara taku toa he toa (taki tahi) he toa (taki tini) No rēira tātou e huihui mai nei, ka ‘Hoake tonu tātou’ Thank you for that…
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Open mike 08/08/2020
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Daily review 07/08/2020
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The return of John Key
This week feels like I have gone through a time warp and that I have been returned to 2016. Suddenly John Key is back in the media and displaying that passive aggressive style that he perfected. On Tuesday he was advocating that the country's borders…
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James Shaw, comedian
Before you read this post, please watch at least the first 3 1/2 minutes of this video. It's James Shaw's Adjournment speech in parliament yesterday, and he's funny. Seriously, 3 minutes of jokes, casting shade on Winston, National, Act and even a wee bit on…
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Open mike 07/08/2020
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Daily review 06/08/2020
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The fragility of our food supply
A comment was made recently that no-one gets paid $100,000 growing permaculture kale, and this is the income needed for a house. It was a throwaway, dismissive comment so I'm not linking to it, but it was in the context of job creation and my…
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The Covid election
I normally do not do this, tempting fate and all that. But the forces behind this election are so strong that it would take a really dramatic event to change current momentum. Because kiwis are really proud that we are, so far, Covid free. We…
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Open mike 06/08/2020
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Daily review 05/08/2020
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The test of MMP
The left’s change of fortune in the last 3 years is still kind of mindblowing. In 2017, the election that many believed the left would lose was twice turned on its head. First by Metiria Turei’s speech announcing the Green Party’s new welfare policy, where…
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Who are you going to trust with your job, Jacinda or Judith?
In phenomenally good news for the country and the Government and pretty well everyone but the National Party the country's unemployment rate has, checks notes, declined. From Liam Dann at the Herald: Unemployment dropped to 4 per cent in the June quarter, official labour force…
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National’s policy platform
I thought I would have a dive into National's announced policies to see what they are proposing. It did not take me long. For a party that promised to be a policy factory it was a real disappointment. They do have a vision statement. It…
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Go Well Ruth Dyson
She is one of the less noticeable of the current list of Labour MPs. She has been in Parliament for a long time, has given sterling service, has kept the Port Hills electorate safely red and has served the Labour Party organisation at the highest…
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Open mike 05/08/2020
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Daily review 04/08/2020
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Falling into a coma
Why have we fallen into the most boring and predictable election we've had since Bolger's second term? Neither National nor Labour have put out fresh policy in months. New roads don't count as fresh anything. Nor do medium-scale regional projects. Labour are still working on…
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Taxpayers’ Union promoting Green Party policy
The ratio under this tweet is as beautiful as the tweet itself. For non-twitter folk, the ratio is when a much larger number of replies go against a tweet and its likes, although in this case the likes are likely to be people agreeing that…
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Open mike 04/08/2020
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