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Daily review 15/10/2019
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Burning down the house
Recent social media from National suggests that there is a business confidence problem and that the solution is to incinerate regulations, lots and lots of regulations. Is there a business confidence problem? Sure there is. I am pretty cautious and my confidence for the future…
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Later climate change deniers
The latest election results are notable for the removal of a number of climate change deniers from office, and the election of a number of candidates who stood on explicit climate change platforms. Charlie Mitchell has the overview: https://twitter.com/comingupcharlie/status/1183622092043894785 https://twitter.com/comingupcharlie/status/1183622095705526273 One aspect that was pleasing…
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Caption contest
Photo and commentary: Henry Cooke
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Open mike 15/10/2019
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One News Colmar Brunton Poll Oct 2019
Another day, another poll. And another disappointing, if somewhat disguised, result for Simon Bridges. Frankly, the National leader has had a week to forget, with yesterday's Newshub poll suggesting that the Tories would not only lose to a Labour/Green Government (the right's nightmare scenario) but…
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Daily review 14/10/2019
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Online voting – no. Try polling booths
Amid calls to install online voting from the technologically illiterate who are appear to be unaware of the risks, there is clear disagreement from those who do know the risks. Politicians should listen to them. The current debate centers around the continuing failure of postal…
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Newshub: poll shows Labour/Green could govern alone
Not that it's apparent from Shub's spinny headline and Tova O'Brien's 'Labour are loosers' reckons, (Jacinda Ardern, Labour take massive tumble in new Newshub-Reid Research poll), so I fixed if for ya Newshub. It's just one poll*, a year out from an election, but if…
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Open mike 14/10/2019
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Dunedin’s Aaron Hawkins
Dunedin is going to be a very interesting test of politics and opportunity over this coming three years for this new mayor. Actually winning the votes that won him election, was a very, very close run thing for him. His main rival, the utterly toxic…
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How To Get There 13/10/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Open mike 13/10/2019
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Goff returned as Super City Mayor
Preliminary results suggest Phil Goff has been returned as Auckland Super City mayor. More details to follow.
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2019 local body election results
Live coverage at Spinoff https://twitter.com/TheSpinoffTV/status/1182797113605799936 RadioNZ https://twitter.com/radionz/status/1182803751112855552 Stuff https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1182798288900120576 The Herald's full list of Mayors and Councillors ElectionNZ results page List of council websites and maps When will election results be available? Votes are processed, but not counted, as they come in. The announcement of…
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Open mike 12/10/2019
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Daily review 11/10/2019
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John Key 2.0
It is happening. National Party heavyweights are moving to parachute Chris Luxon into the Botany seat. From Boris Jancic at the Herald: Former Prime Minister John Key has put his weight behind Christopher Luxon after the ex Air New Zealand chief announced his intention to…
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Open mike 11/10/2019
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Daily review 10/10/2019
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National’s extreme gang rhetoric
The last few days has been a pretty good example of National's spray and walk away approach to politics. According to National this government is responsible for an increase in gang numbers. How you may ask? Is this a policy decision? Did Labour really campaign…
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Elizabeth Warren on Facebook and the US presidential election
US Senator and Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's twitter thread about Facebook and the US election: Facebook has incredible power to affect elections and our national debate. Mark Zuckerberg is telling employees that he views a Warren administration as an “existential” threat to Facebook. The public…
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Open mike 10/10/2019
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Daily review 08/10/2019
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About the $7.5 billion surplus
Stephen Joyce should hang his head in shame and no longer pollute the public discourse with his views. Because what he claimed was going to be an $11.7 billion deficit turned out this year to be a $7.5 billion surplus. Not to mention the $5.5 billion…
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Open mike 09/10/2019
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Daily review 08/10/2019
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$7.5 billion surplus
The government has just unveiled a $7.5 billion surplus. Treasury announced today that: The Government's surplus has increased $2b to $7.5b Net Government debt has fallen to 19.2 per cent of GDP, down from 19.9 per cent a year ago The total…
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Will online voting solve the turnout problem
As at yesterday Auckland Council was reporting that 17% of electors had voted. This is not an Auckland only problem, throughout the country return rates are reported to be low. And questions are being asked about the cause, and what the solution may be. My personal belief is…
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Rates, debt, growth and PPP
Stuff had an interesting piece looking at rates, taxes and local infrastructure "Rates are much lower than you think, and they're responsible for miserable growth in cities". Pretty much everything in that was correct - they just missed out one crucial factor. What was said…
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