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Daily review 30/06/2022
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Nonsense Auckland Council PR
Sometimes the egregious spin gets too much. The ratepayer-funded issue of Our Auckland is devoted to climate change. It states on p.13, quote: New Zealand now has the 3rd highest per capita registered vehicles in the world Aucklanders drive more than 10 billion km each…
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Mansplaining Luxon
Fresh from his attempt to alienate the female vote by being equivocal on if a National Government would move to restrict access to abortions yesterday Christopher Luxon compounded things by purporting to speak for all women. He declared that National is a party for women…
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Open mike 30/06/2022
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Daily review 29/06/2022
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Open mike 29/06/2022
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Daily review 28/06/2022
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Hey Free Speech Union, Simon O’Connor is being muzzled
Christopher Luxon's attempt to cauterise the abortion issue is not working out as intended. Fresh from the weekend's drama where three different statements were released within a short time he has acted to muzzle Simon O'Connor, whose "It's a good day" post disappeared from social…
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Open mike 28/06/2022
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Daily review 27/06/2022
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Christopher Luxon’s many and varied abortion takes
The overturning of Rowe v Wade has made the politics of abortion become topical throughout the world. In New Zealand the response from Labour was pretty quick and to the point. Jacinda Ardern was unequivocal. From Radio New Zealand: "Watching the removal of a woman's…
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Open mike 27/06/2022
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Open mike 26/06/2022
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The US abortion bans and women’s rights
The obvious politics first. Roe v Wade, the US Supreme Court decision in 1973 that prevented state and federal law from restricting or removing access to abortion services, has now been overturned. From the Guardian explainer The supreme court just overturned Roe v Wade –…
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Mick Lynch is a working class hero
Over in the UK industrial action by the Rail Maritime and Transport Union is attracting attention. And the RMTU head, Mick Lynch, is proving to be a media sensation. His clear and direct means of communication is laying to waste all of the carefully scripted…
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Open mike 25/06/2022
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Matariki and Prime Minister Ardern
Plenty of experts will tell you about what Matariki ‘means to us’. Here’s what it means to Ardern. Prime Minister Ardern is the set piece queen. When there are highly concentrated media moments, she and her staff are the best I’ve seen here at commanding…
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Open mike 24/06/2022
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Daily review 23/06/2022
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Open mike 23/06/2022
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Daily review 22/06/2022
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Luxon has been Susied on National Radio
The country is in the middle of a wave of influenza that is putting significant strain on the health system. And Covid has not gone away. Numbers continue to be stubbornly high. National are focussing their attacks on this. Chris Luxon was interviewed this morning…
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Open mike 22/06/2022
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Daily review 21/06/2022
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Should our future lie with NATO?
Not content to stay in the North Atlantic, a NATO conference in Madrid is shortly about to reveal its next ten-year plan to contain China. Jacinda Ardern will be there, who knows why. Are we nailing our colours to a flag at half-mast? Politik's Monday…
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How Democracy Weakens
It’s pretty commonplace now to observe that Prime Minister Ardern is doing well overseas but tanking at home. That's now a commonplace problem of many stronger democracies worldwide to look great as leaders on tv or Facebook but be increasingly unloved by their citizens. Democratisation…
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The dodgy Auckland Mayoralty Curia poll
The Curia poll investigating Aucklanders preferences for the next Mayor has caused a bit of a splash. The published results suggested that Leo Molloy and Efeso Collins were level pegging and that Viv Beck and Wayne Brown were close behind. And various media outlets picked up…
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Open mike 21/06/2022
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Daily review 20/06/2022
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Tamaki Makaurau’s very own wannabe Trump
What started out as an ego driven campaign is now developing into full blown Trumism as Leo Molloy thrashes around attempting to court attention in the belief, Trump like, that it will convert into political support. From Toby Manhire at the Spinoff: At a launch…
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