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Daily Review 28/02/2017
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The Nats’ new ‘swimmable’ rivers aren’t
I've been waiting for the dust to settle a bit before wading in to the Nats' water quality fiasco. Nick Smith bungled the announcement hugely, allowing the perception that they were going to reach their new goals by allowing twice as much shit in "swimmable"…
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Off the track
The Auckland Fabians have a lecture on Thursday at 6:30pm at Lecture Theatre 5 , 12 Grafton Road, Owen Glenn Building. University of Auckland. There is parking beneath the building. Sounds like it will be worth going to. Off the Track is the 10th State…
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National bolster their moribund blue-greens
I read this morning in Politik that Vernon Tava has left the Greens and appears to be leaning towards National. It really doesn't surprise me. After one of the debates in 2015 between the Green candidates for leader, I had a talk to each of the…
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Homeless crisis hidden in plain sight
National's economic geniuses are at it again, spending money on emergency housing grants 15 times faster than expected because they have (so they say) no idea how big the problem is. That is of course incompetent, but it is true to the extent that the…
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Bill’s bigoted drug reckons vs the evidence
It didn't take Bill English long to revert to type - Bill English says employers are regularly telling him that Kiwis can't pass drug tests. Some folks he knows are telling him stuff and he's basing immigration policy on it? That's some Trump-level reasoning right…
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Open Mike 28/02/2017
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Daily Review 27/02/2017
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Two more Labour candidate selections
Two more Labour electorate candidates have been recently decided: New Labour candidate announced for Bay of Plenty Mrs Warren-Clark was announced as the Labour candidate competing for the Bay of Plenty seat late last week. Merivale School principal Jan Tinetti is the Tauranga Labour candidate.…
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Housing crisis what housing crisis
What unfortunate timing. It appears that the effects of the housing crisis have been seriously underestimated by the Government and the amount set aside for emergency housing grants for this year has been spent four times over, in three months. From Newshub: The Government has…
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Green Party Member’s Bill to protect freshwater
Press release from the Greens at their weekend conference. _______________________________________________________ Green Party launches Member’s Bill to protect our freshwater James Shaw MP on Sunday, February 26, 2017 - 13:49 The Green Party has today launched a member’s bill that will keep water from underground sources,…
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You can’t afford a house because of – plants!
I'm used to hearing some pretty pathetic excuses out of the National government. But this - this will really take some beating: Prime Minister Bill English blames environment for high cost of housing The high cost of housing "hanging over" young families is a result…
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Open Mike 27/02/2017
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Green Party candidates and vision speech (updated)
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/835634316721860609 Green Co-leader James Shaw, speaks at the Green Party Candidates Conference. “Our Vision: 2017” - Speech to Green Party Candidate Conference, 26 February 2017 Video Full speech transcript here. Excerpts, Welcome to election year! Today we can boast more party members than ever before,…
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Pike River facts laid out
An excellent piece by Pike River mum, Sonya Rockhouse, in today's Sunday Star-Times. The full article is here, but here are some of the most important points: Four months ago, we'd pretty much lost hope of ever getting justice for what happened to our boys…
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Where to now for the left?
There is an interesting recent column in the Guardian where Josh Bernstein theorises that although neo liberalism is in decline so are the fortunes of the left. And with right wing administrations being in control throughout the western world including Europe, the United States, Australia…
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A fan grieves Key’s popularity bubble
Tracy Watkins is still stuck in denial: What, already? John Key yesterday's man? Today's headline news, tomorrow's fish and chip wrapper it seems. The cult of personality reigns in this new world order but we Kiwis seem to be refreshingly above all that. We really…
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Media response to the Mt Albert By election result
The media response following Jacinda Ardern's utterly convincing win in the Mt Albert by election is interesting although somewhat predictable. Both the New Zealand Herald and the Dominion Post are suggesting that Ardern may be the next deputy leader of the Labour Party. In the Dominion Post Tracy…
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Open Mike 26/02/2017
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Trump Whitehouse bans critical media from briefing
How very Goebbels of it. The Trump White House has banned some media from a briefing given by White House spokesperson Sean Spicer. From the New York Times: Journalists from The New York Times and several other news organizations were prohibited from attending a briefing…
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Australia’s war
This should come as a surprise to no one: The Secret Iraq Dossier Exclusive: Inside Australia's flawed war A newly declassified report obtained by Fairfax Media reveals Australia's role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was undertaken solely to enhance our alliance with the US.…
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Can we even afford to be tenants in our own country?
John Key famously said that he didn't want Kiwis to become tenants in their own country. He then went on to merrily allow the sell-off of vast amounts of land and an unknown number of houses to overseas buyers. But being tenants in our own…
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The Mt Albert By election
It is election day today in Mt Albert for the successor to David Shearer. Comments are open. Update: https://twitter.com/JulieAnneGenter/status/835391656966791170
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It’s past time to be bold about water
In the wake of the debacle that is the National Government's new 'water quality' policy how about we look at what should be done. First up, change the government. It's blatantly obvious that not only will National never do the right thing, but they are in…
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Open Mike 25/02/2017
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Daily Review 24/02/2017
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Mt Albert – the left and the right
Today is the last day of campaigning in Mt Albert. Those hoping for a gory Labour Green battle to froth about must be feeling a bit let down: Greens' Julie Anne Genter and Labour's Jacinda Ardern strike up friendship in Mt Albert The least bitter…
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Two big policy fails
This is what you get with a hasty, reactive, "top down" policy process. Fail one: Bill English struggles to offload a billion dollars ... Back in July last year, the Government reacted to the calls from fast-growing cities – mainly Auckland, but Tauranga, Hamilton, Queenstown…
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Nick Smith becomes Minister of Government Information
Following his outstanding success in determining that rivers that were previously unswimmable will no longer be unswimmable as long as no more than one out of 20 people who swim in them do not develop gut wrenching sicknesses, Bill English has decided to make his mate…
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Forest and Bird takes it the Government in the Supreme Court
This coming Monday 26th and February 27th, the Crown seeks to overturn what Forest and Bird had defeated in the Appeal Court: the right to swap Department of Conservation land into the Ruataniwha Dam. In Minister of Conservation Maggie Barrie's words, the Appeal Court decision…
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