People have died, and some of the bodies are still to be recovered. More houses are being evacuated in parts of the country due to slips. Many roads and bridges are still closed or at risk. A lot of people are in an emergency. Can…
Ten months to go and there is no political party currently countering the sustained rise of New Zealand First. For the first time in Australia's history, a minor party has polled higher than one of the other major parties. The combined intended vote for the…
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Would it be fun or folly trying to map the lessons of Carney’s speech onto our MMP environment? Firstly, to use Carney’s lens to attempt an analysis of how things are at present (state of the nation), i.e., let’s see if there are parallels in…
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New data shows that Wellington Hospital's emergency department went into its most critical code red status on average nearly twice a day between January and October 2025. About 10 patients a day left the ED untreated during that period - 3200 in total. Death rates…
The remarkable, standing ovation speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Full transcript here. https://youtu.be/dE981Z_TaVo?t=101
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A prominent supporter of the Atlas Agenda in NZ has penned a passive-aggressive defence of his ideology masquerading as book review about populism. The book, apparently, paints populism as a grave danger. To what exactly, you might ask, and this is where the book review(ed)…
US President Donald Trump who recently oversaw the invasion of Venezuela and is threatening to invade Greenland, which is part of Denmark, is proposing a Board of Peace to oversee the rebuild of Gaza. Aotearoa's own Christopher Luxon has received an invite to be part…
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Christopher Luxon gave his state of the nation speech yesterday. Without exaggeration I can truly say it was the worst state of the nation speech I have ever heard. It was even worse than his 2025 or his 2024 speeches. There was no passion. No…
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