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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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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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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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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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Preliminary results suggest Phil Goff has been returned as Auckland Super City mayor. More details to follow.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There was some suprisingly positive MSM coverage on the weekend leading into today's Extinction Rebellion actions in Wellington. Extinction Rebellion NZ starts off an international week of climate rebellion designed to encourage governments to act in meaningful terms on the climate crisis. From Stuff, She…
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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn writes: ______________________________________________________________________________ Friday, October 04, 2019 Climate Change: Join the rebellion In the wake of last Friday's climate strike, Peter McKenzie had an article in The Spinoff about protest strategies. The school strike movement is "polite" and cooperates with those…