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Open Mike 19/01/2018
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Daily Review 18/01/2018
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Shock horror right wing think tank thinks NZ not very democratic
The usual suspects are touting a report that suggests New Zealand is not very democratic, and ranks 39th in the world behind such democratic heavyweights such as Guatemala, Kiribati, Panama, and Colombia. Top ranked nation is Ireland, and our Australian neighbours are ranked fifth. The…
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Open Mike 18/01/2018
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Daily Review 17/01/2017
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Nuclear Options.
It's the modern way, the right way, the civilised way. We and our partner and our children live in glorious, isolated union; we interact with the market, and build a life of our choosing for ourselves and our children. We take our opportunities, and as rationally…
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Can This Government Regain Power on Its Policies?
All parties in this government need to increase their vote share if they are to have a reasonable chance of being re-elected. What policy results will New Zealand have to vote for and campaign on in 2020? Coalition agreement points, in summary Will it attract…
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Open Mike 17/01/2018
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Daily Review
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Is it OK for a woman with an opinion to host TVNZ’s Breakfast?
It’s great news that Hayley Holt has landed a cool new gig hosting TVNZ’s Breakfast show. It’s not so great that before she even gets on the air we have to endure the pontification of some pundits about whether or not it’s “OK”, given she…
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Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Māori
The language is the life force of the mana Māori. I have met Bill English once, at Hoani Waititi marae in Waitakere last Waitangi day. He initially impressed. He was welcomed onto the marae formally and then spoke in te reo Māori. His te reo…
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NRT: Spain refuses to respect Catalonia’s election.
Reposted from I/S at No Right Turn. ______________________________________________________________ Last year, the Spanish government in Madrid dissolved Catalanoia's regional government and forced regional elections in the hope of overthrowing a seperatist majority in the regional Parliament. They lost. Catalans marched to the ballot boxes in record numbers, and re-elected…
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“Politics isn’t a game”
Someone wrote something in the Herald about why Tr*mp's first year wasn't that bad. Branko Marcetic tweeted a thread saying nope and explaining why: https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366838767235072 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366840981811200 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366843343220736 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366845557850113 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366849496301568 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366851962449920 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366854533599232 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366856827895808 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366861575843840 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366864939630592 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366866705477632 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952747976614494208
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Thought for the day
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Open Mike 16/01/2018
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Jac-in-da-Box
"Wedger" Wayne Mapp in todays's Spinoff does his best to stuff Jacinda Ardern into a Tony Blair "Third Way" box. Too glib by far. True in 2002 Blair did promise to eliminate child poverty by 2020; poverty's now the highest in 20 years in Britain.…
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Open Mike 15/01/2018
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Really buffering climate change
The recent 1 development of accident and disaster insurance over the last century, and its widespread non-commercial adoption across the world in the last 60 years is having a profound influence on buffering climate change. The Economist had a recent article with an excellent graph showing…
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Racist dog whistling
We may think that we now live in more enlightened times where the scourge of racism is finally being dealt to and racist behaviour by politicians is no longer considered acceptable. But recent events suggest to me that racist memes are still being used by…
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Open Mike 14/01/2018
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Two Faced Liberalism.
Anyone want to lay out what the essential difference might be between picking and choosing between broad categories of migrants and picking and choosing between broad categories of migrants? What's the difference at play in preferring “skilled” migrants over supposedly “unskilled” ones or Norwegian migrants…
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Is it time to Nationalise Auckland?
It has been a decade now since Minister of Local Government Rodney Hide proposed amalgamating all of Auckland’s city councils into one enormous entity by dumping much of the Royal Commission’s proposals, then legislating in 2009 and forming the new entity in 2010. Well it's…
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Open Mike 13/01/2018
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Climate Change and the New Zealand Defence Forces
It’s always bugged me that our military forces are under-used in New Zealand. It’s time we invited them to protect us from climate change. They are the only public sector entity in this country with the capacity to do much about it. They are extremely…
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Open Mike 12/01/2018
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You Cowed?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume I wasn't the only one gobsmacked on reading about, in the words of The New York Times: A Louisiana teacher who stood up at a school board meeting and asked why the superintendent was…
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Won’t somebody please think about the RONs?
Judith Collins has attempted to steal the limelight in a traditionally slow political period by announcing a new campaign for the National Party. Not against climate change or child poverty or our failing health systems or the housing crisis or ... But against the Government's indifference…
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Jim Anderton 1938 – 2018
From the ODT: Jim Anderton's son Chris says he has been overwhelmed with support after his father's death at the weekend. ... Writing on Facebook this morning, Chris Anderton thanked people for the messages of supported he had received: "They uplift me." Anderton was two…
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Open Mike 11/01/2018
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Stopping the wage bleed
In today's Herald, Tramways Union Secretary Kevin O'Sullivan has written about the need to end competitive tendering based on driving wages down. It's a simple change the Government could make to improve the lives of tens of thousands of Kiwis. The Herald's editorial call at New…