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Open mike 22/08/2022
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A week of sideshows
The most important recent political news in my opinion are two opinion poll results. The first the Kantar poll from last week suggested that 65% of kiwis opposed National's plan to reverse Labour's tax on those earning over $180,000. National needs to proceed with this…
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Open mike 21/08/2022
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Open mike 20/08/2022
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Daily review 19/08/2022
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This is what the climate crisis looks like in New Zealand, so far
Metservice and NIWA aren't going to say this is climate change, because any of these floods and slips could have and have happened without AGW. But, the point here is that extreme weather events will get more extreme and more frequent. We already see this…
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Not A Ripple of Difference
The polls are out and the internal revolt last month to remove James Shaw as Greens co leader hasn’t made a ripple. Apparently being so close to Labour in Parliament would enable the Green Party to better hold Labour to account. But this year the…
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Open mike 19/08/2022
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Daily review 18/08/2022
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By Nature Unfair
You can be the most moral nation on earth and have no reward for it. New Zealand is a small well managed state within a small developed country with high vulnerabilities and dependencies in petrol and car reliance, a low-productivity and low innovation economy, proportionally…
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Open mike 18/08/2022
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Daily review 17/08/2022
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Open mike 17/08/2022
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Daily review 16/08/2022
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What to do with Gaurav Sharma
Labour's caucus will meet today to discuss what to do about Gaurav Sharma. The eventual conclusion I think is fairly predictable. Putting aside what happened last week the level of shitfuckery involved in doing a confidential text dump on social media at the very time…
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Greens: New public transport model must be backed with investment
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1559042897306980352 https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1559042904181448705 https://twitter.com/vote_climatenz/status/1558924782959476736 greens.org.nz press release New public transport model must be backed with investment 4-5 minutes The Green Party has once again shown that bringing people together to demand change works, with the announcement today that the Government will give communities a greater say…
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Open mike 16/08/2022
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Daily review 15/08/2022
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About Gaurav Sharma
I have hesitated in writing this post and thought it might be better to leave the subject for now. But it appears that it will not blow over quickly and the Standard has in the past reported on similar events and is a repository of…
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Open mike 15/08/2022
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The weird arrangement for MP’s staffers
I write this with some experience; I was a union advocate for some Parliamentary Services staff, my partner was a delegate for Parliamentary Services and lost his job after an election, I employed staffers while an MP, and I was an Associate Whip. While MPs…
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Stuff’s Fire and Fury major investigation into the occupation of Parliament grounds
Stuff's major investigation into the protests at parliament in February was published today. You can read their backgrounder on why they made it here. The investigation is divided into five parts, A feature length documentary Democracy on the Edge: How the mainstreaming of extreme politics…
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Open mike 14/08/2022
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Open mike 13/08/2022
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Daily review 12/08/2022
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Molloy drops out of Mayoralty race
Self described tough man Leo Molloy has found the going too tough and has pulled out of the Auckland mayoralty race. The cause was allegedly the release of a Curia poll which showed Molloy's support sagging. From Radio New Zealand: Auckland businessman Leo Molloy has…
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Bastards Versus Assholes
There are necessary bastards in political life, and in developed democracies compared to everywhere else ours are gentle as lambs. Sure these animals get fictionalised like those in Chief of Staff, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl8YMGaQRKI Borgen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKduYvZ1TYo House of Cards, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvSkxBYuoQY Or The Thick of It. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1wr0UB0hhU Bastards…
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Notes from the CATA Conference: keynote address by Stella O’Malley
Guest post by Harriet. Following on from the post Should therapists and counsellors speak about the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children? this post looks at the key note speaker address at CATA's Children, Adolescents and Gender - Impacts of transgender ideology Conference. Links supplied by…
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Open mike 12/08/2022
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Daily review 11/08/2022
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