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Open mike 25/04/2021
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The five eyes beat up
There has been a conservative sourced beat up of Aotearoa New Zealand for not using an intelligence gathering treaty grouping to publicly attack China. This speech from Nanaia Mahuta has sparked up various levels of frenzy. I am not sure why, they should reread the…
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Biden is serious about climate change
One of the many regretful aspects of the Trump presidency (remember him?) was the United States open hostility to doing anything about climate change. Pulling out of the Paris accord at a time when urgent, concerted, drastic action is required was not what our world…
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Open mike 24/04/2021
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Daily review 23/04/2021
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Too much too far?
As we lead up to Budget 2021, there’s much more shape to the whole direction of this government. It’s now the most wide-ranging since the fourth Labour government’s 1984-87 term. It’s merged and effectively nationalised all the polytechs. It’s just announced the formation of the…
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Open mike 23/04/2021
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Daily review 22/04/2021
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National’s very bad day
Yesterday was a very bad day for the National Party. I hope it has many more bad days like this in the future. First up it had to respond to Labour's Health reform announcement. The announcement of change has reverberated, particularly within the Health system.…
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Open mike 22/04/2021
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Daily review 21/04/2021
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DHBs to go
Television New Zealand has reported that Andrew Little is to announce that district health boards are to go. The announcement is being made formally right now in Parliament by Andrew Little but media have had an embargoed opportunity to view the changes. From TVNZ: New…
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Open mike 21/04/2021
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Putting Five Eyes in its place
Following her speech to the NZ China Council, Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta wanted to be very clear that in speaking out about issues with other countries, New Zealand would not be doing it in concert with Five Eyes partners. She expressed a view that…
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Daily review 20/04/2021
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Its official – Transmission Gully is a fiasco
I always struggled with the concept of the Transmission Gully motorway. Building motorways over active fault lines seems to be a crazy thing to do. And using a PPP with promises of lots and lots of savings was A recently released review thinks so as…
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The European Super League – a proposal that has united Britain
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's Blog People overseas often have preconceived ideas about British society. On moving to the UK I was told that in Britain people will try and place you based on your accent, the school you went to and your job. This…
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Open mike 20/04/2021
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Daily review 19/04/2021
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The Problem with Personification in Politics
From time to time, commenters on this site make the mistake to ascribe a mind and opinion to the site. Firstly, this shows that they have not read the Policy. Secondly, it shows how their clouded thinking leads to wrong conclusions and ineffective comments. Personification…
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Climate Commission Hope Versus NLTP Reality
At the end of May the government will announce its policy responses to the Climate Change Commission recommendations. But the very hardest climate challenge we have is in transport, and it's here that the National Land Transport Plan is pretty much like the wind being…
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Open mike 19/04/2021
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