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Open Mike 26/10/25
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More RONS!
It is clear that the National Party clearly has not met a road idea that it did not want to build. No matter what the cost. Following on from Mountain Tui's post about National's orgy of roads of national significance announcements there is one aspect…
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Open Mike 25/10/25
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Daily review 24/10/2025
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Judith gets her marching orders
Lauded at the CIA and lectured at the Department of War, Judith Collins last week got her marching orders – prepare New Zealanders to join the next US war against China. And while the pictures of her submissiveness were out in the open, as here…
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Stuff’s Lloyd Burr infers striking workers are puppets
I’m no fan of Lloyd Burr. The last time I wrote about him, it was because I felt he was promoting Crimson Education (a Jamie Beaton and John Key business) without disclosing the numerous scandals that Crimson has been involved in. I felt it was…
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Open Mike 24/10/25
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We Deserve Better
New Zealand's media landscape is falling apart. According to the latest New Zealand on Air research, audience figures for NZ's current broadcasting radio and television models are declining. Unlike most countries word-wide New Zealand has not had a publicly-funded media entity since 1975 when the…
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Daily review 23/10/2025
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Open Mike 23/10/25
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Daily review 22/10/2025
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Open Mike 22/10/25
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Daily review 21/10/2025
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National’s $62 billion budget hole
Yesterday Chris Luxon and Bishop announced their commitment to spend $1.2 billion to commence major works on “roads of national significance”. Their overall plans are much larger than that - equating to about $62 billion of roading plans without any funding sources under them. On…
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Labour’s Future Fund is full of promise
Yesterday, Barbara Edmonds and Chris Hipkins announced their first cornerstone official policy - a sovereign investment, infrastructure & growth fund. The original announcement was deferred out of respect for Jim Bolger's passing. The announcement was everything that one could hope for - an acknowledgement of…
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Open Mike 21/10/25
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Labour’s Sub-Therapeutic Dose for Economic Sickness
Why is Labour proposing $200 million for a growth fund when New Zealand First got $3 billion? As a condition in the coalition agreement between Labour and New Zealand First in late 2017, the Provincial Growth Fund was established with $1 billion going into it…
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Daily review 20/10/2025
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Open Mike 20/10/25
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