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Open Mike 27/09/2018
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Daily Review 26/09/2018
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National is now barking at Tahrs
Is this evidence that National has gone full wingnut conspiracy crazy? Or a cynical exercise in harvesting email addresses? Or both? Whatever the reason National has started a petition against a DOC planned Tahr cull. Here is the tweet: https://twitter.com/NZNationalParty/status/1044720483722158082 What was the dastardly Government…
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Ardern on leadership
It has been an interesting week in Politics. Jacinda Ardern is overseas and she and Neve are wowing the world's media. She is reportedly the first world leader to appear at the United Nations with child in tow. For an organisation that is future focused…
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Trump laughed at for waving his toad at UN
What can one say. Lets try The Daily Mirror for one of the more considered right opinions... United Nations delegates openly laughed at Donald Trump during his keynote speech to the General Assembly. The humiliating moment came just moments into his big speech in New…
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Open Mike 26/09/2018
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Daily Review 25/09/2018
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How Patriarchy Works; A Newshub Special Investigation
If you wanted an illustration of how the patriachy works to keep female voices from being heard, you'd be hard pressed to go beyond Newshub's reporting of the poisoning scare at Carterton South School. As readers will recall, school children reported a bad smell and…
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The War on Drugz
So Donald Trump has declared round 13 of the war on drugs. His administration has released this one page global call to action which is as indecipherable as it is short. It does a lot of reaffirming of old commitments then has a few platitudinous…
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Open Mike 25/09/2018
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Daily Review 24/09/2018
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Wellington bus debacle deeply damaging to Govt’s transport policy
The government needs to intervene in the Wellington bus fiasco if doesn’t want its bold metropolitan public transport policy to end in tatters. Of all cities in Aotearoa, Wellington had by far the best public transport system, with a high percentage of commuters using trains…
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Just because you’re crass and politically stupid, Mr Bridges!
I'd have to say that the most dumbarse thing I have seen Simon Bridges quoted as saying was in this article about Jacinda Ardern going to the US, and getting invited on to numerous platforms to speak about the NZ position on climate change, probably…
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Simon says the weirdest things – shoplifting fines
This series of posts, picking on weird things that National leader Simon Bridges says, is like shooting fish in a barrel. There is so much choice ... Latest is his comments on Darroch Ball's Shoplifting (Offence and Penalties) Bill. First up he cannot do math.…
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Open Mike 24/09/2018
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National will be gutted – Moodys gives New Zealand an Aaa credit rating
Remember all the doom and gloom about the country's economic future and how the economy was going to hell in a hand basket and how business confidence was crashing? Moodys must have missed the memo because they have recently confirmed New Zealand's Aaa AAA credit…
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Open Mike 23/09/2018
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Who is the National caucus leaker?
The noose is tightening. And time is ticking. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers money are being spent via the Leader's office fund to expensive accountancy and law firms to find out who someone is that it took a couple of days for the…
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National forgets it apologised for Housing Corp meth hysteria
This week Phil Twyford announced that Housing Corp would do the right thing and consider requests for compensation for those affected by Housing Corp's and the last Government's meth hysteria. From Interest.co.nz: Housing NZ is to compensate hundreds of former tenants who were evicted from…
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Open Mike 22/09/2018
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Tax Working Group report depressing reading
It’s hard to go past the rant of Newsroom’s Managing Editor Bernard Hickey about how depressing is the interim report of the Tax Working Group. The die was essentially cast when Sir Michael Cullen was appointed chair. For nine years as Finance Minister in the…
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Daily Review 21/09/2018
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Meka had to go
The Prime Minister has made the right call by deciding to sack Whaitiri. The public details are not clear but it appears that Whaitiri and a staff member were involved in a physical altercation and although the details are disputed it seems that both parties…
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Open Mike 21/09/2018
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Daily Review 20/09/2018
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GDP figures expose business confidence survey nonsense
Gross Domestic Product in the June quarter rose 1.0%, exposing the ANZ Bank’s Business Outlook confidence survey as little more than a National Party and big business propaganda tool. At an annualised growth rate of 4.0%, the economy has been expanding well beyond what the…
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How some men celebrated Suffrage Day
Yesterday was a day to rejoice, to celebrate the fact that 125 years ago our democracy was the first in the world to give women the vote. Such forward looking liberal policy is rightfully celebrated. But Simon thought it was all about him with as…
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Open Mike 20/09/2018
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Daily Review 19/09/2018
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