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Open mike 22/05/2022
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The Australian Election
Here we go. It is election day today in Australia and so far there have been some decidedly underhand tactics adopted by the right. The Liberal Party has been sending out texts to voters in New South Wales and Victoria suggesting that there is a…
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The terrorist ‘heroes’ of Mariupol
The mass surrender of over 2000 members of the extreme nationalist AZOV battalion who have just been flushed out of their bunker in Mariupol is a major win in the fight against global race-based terrorism. These extreme nationalists share the same ideology as the Christchurch…
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The time that Roger Douglas was right
Brian Gaynor died this week. He was a quite exceptional reporter and writer. He has this very clear way of expressing himself and analysing complex situations. He was a business reporter rather than a political reporter but his writing covered issues of wide interest. Patrick…
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Open mike 21/05/2022
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Daily review 20/05/2022
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The Media and the Australian election
I cannot understand why in Australia Scotty from Marketing still has a fighting chance of remaining as Prime Minister. But the recent tightening in the polls suggests that this is a possibility. But how can this be happening? What is wrong with Australians that so…
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The Goldilocks budget
The pundits are punditing and the shills are shilling. How was the 2022 budget? Was it the worst since Ruth Richardson's mother of all budgets or the best since the first Labour Government gave everyone a Christmas bonus in 1935? The right are incandescent with…
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Open mike 20/05/2022
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Daily review 19/05/2022
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The politics of high inflation – can governments do anything?
Britons woke up to the news today that inflation in the UK has hit a 40 year high of 9%. Recent increases to power bills, fuel and groceries have in no small part driven this inflationary pressure and indications are that prices could increase further.…
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Budget Day: there are real alternatives
Budget Day, where our centre left neoliberal government straddles the line between compassion and BAU. RNZ’s Jane Patterson this morning, Sandwiched between the expectations of New Zealanders looking on with disbelief at skyrocketing prices and Labour's big spending policy commitments, his challenge is to balance…
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Budget Day!
Today is Budget day. It has followed a well scripted routine. There have already been the announcements, primarily in the area of climate change. I expect that an extension to public transport fare reductions will be announced. Clearly health and education will get a boost. …
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Open mike 19/05/2022
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Daily review 18/05/2022
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Longing for a low carbon future
If the main barrier to climate action isn’t technological, but social and political, we need new tools for change. Transition Towns pioneer Rob Hopkins is now pioneering the methodology of deep imagination as a way to attract people to the inevitable low carbon future and make it…
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Open mike 18/05/2022
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Daily review 17/05/2022
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Has Business NZ been telling porkies?
Business NZ has claimed that the proposed Fair Play legislation breaches International Labour Law. And that the International Labour Organisation agrees with it. But its claims appear to be on the wrong side of what we could politely describe as the truth. From Daniel Smith…
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The Emissions Reduction Plan we voted for
https://twitter.com/JulieAnneGenter/status/1526046851845148672 Nearly my shortest post ever, because there's not a lot else that needs to be said. However, I suspect the tweet will annoy some Labour supporters as well as dissers of the Greens, so let's pull it apart. From the Green Party's website: Finally…
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Open mike 17/05/2022
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Daily review 16/05/2022
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Justice for Shaireen
The spotlight is again on Israel after the senseless shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh allegedly by an Israeli army sniper and on the subsequent disruption of her funeral by Israeli defence forces. The Guardian provides this background: Shireen Abu Aqleh, the Al…
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Open mike 16/05/2022
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