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Open mike 24/11/2022
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Daily review 23/11/2022
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Open mike 23/11/2022
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Daily review 22/11/2022
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Things To Do By The Time You’re 80
Happy birthday Joe Biden. As Joe Biden celebrates his 80th birthday in office and Donald Trump announces he will stand for President again in 2024, here's my Top 10 on what Biden has done in his last few years. He's still low in the polls,…
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Open mike 22/11/2022
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Surviving the apocalypse of the Great Twit
The new Great Twit at Twitter has been cauterising off staff in excess. So I suspect that the platform is going to go down the toilet for that (amongst other reasons). But my main concern here has been to preserve the embedded tweets in posts…
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The politics of the voting age change
The Supreme Court has just lobbed a grenade into New Zealand politics by ruling that denying 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote was not only discrimination on the basis of age but also had not been justified and was therefore a breach…
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Diplomatic Values
Trudeau got a 10-minute stand-up with Xi followed by a public shirt-fronting, Albanese got a 32-minute sit-down, and Jacinda Ardern a 50-minute formal bilateral. In the carefully calibrated world of the diplomatic dance-card, that says something. New Zealand would be foolish not to take advantage…
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Daily review 21/11/2022
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National’s Boot Camps announcement is deeply cynical policy recycling
There should be a law against the cynical recycling of dog whistle policies that everyone knows will not work. Last week’s announcement by National of a boot camp policy is as good an example as you can imagine. Normally these sorts of announcements are made…
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Open mike 21/11/2022
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Can We Prepare for 2023?
2023 is going to hit New Zealanders hard. Since the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes New Zealand has been beset by a new major crisis about once every two years. 2022 was our year off and get ready we are in for a strange and hard recession.…
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Open mike 20/11/2022
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Open mike 19/11/2022
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Daily review 18/11/2022
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Open mike 18/11/2022
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Daily review 17/11/2022
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James Shaw, Climate Minister: before us lies a simple choice
https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/1592620486717886464 https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/1592620493588221952 https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/1592620500672741376 At the end of that Statement, Shaw says this, In our region, 1.5 degrees is critical. This COP27 must re-affirm our commitment to 1.5, to Paris and to the decisions we made in Glasgow. In our region, without adequate mitigation, we will…
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Are Luxon’s days numbered?
If there is one thing that National does not tolerate it is failure. Their natural role in the order of everything is to be on top. And when it looks like they will not immediately resume their rightful position then those responsible have hell to…
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Open mike 17/11/2022
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Daily review 16/11/2022
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What happened to National’s policy machine?
Remember when a few leaders ago then National Leader Simon Bridges promised that National would be a 56 MP policy machine? Judging by its response to the Government's release of two bills at the centre of RMA reform the machine has major problems. From Russell…
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Open mike 16/11/2022
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Daily review 15/11/2022
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The power companies are rorting us
Over the years I have written a number of posts about the consequences of the great power company and Air New Zealand share selloff that National engaged in during its last term. In my last post in January 2019 I calculated that the privatisation had…
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Open mike 15/11/2022
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Daily review 14/11/2022
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Open mike 14/11/2022
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Equality for the Black Ferns
Aoteatoa is buzzing with pride and gratitude for the Black Ferns who last night in an epic final bet England and halted England’s 30 game winning streak. If you missed the game here are the highlights. https://youtu.be/VhomSBSMyhM The game was not without its controversies. English…