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Daily review 31/08/2023
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The report of our death has been grossly exaggerated
A bit of fluttering on twitter recently as an apparently leaked Labour internal poll shows good news for the left. The figures here from twitter account 120Aotearoa. That's a National/Act/NZ First government, assuming that Winston Peters isn't lying when he says NZ First have categorically…
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Open mike 31/08/2023
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Daily review 30/08/2023
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Labour should not cut spending on climate change
At one level I think this is smart politics. The Government's budget changes, designed to deal with a reduction in the tax intake and remove discretionary spending areas for National to cut is, politically, very smart. Over the past two election campaigns National has shown…
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Open mike 30/08/2023
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Daily review 29/08/2023
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New Zealand’s Greatest Economic Threat is Fonterra
Fonterra represents New Zealand’s largest internal economic threat. And promise. Fonterra’s milk payout is now forecast to be $6-$7 a kilo of milk solids this season. Outside of interest rate changes, that will be the single largest factor in a depression on our economy and our…
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Open mike 29/08/2023
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Daily review 28/08/2023
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Hipkins rules out coalition with Peters
Yesterday was a good day for Labour. Leader Chris Hipkins started talking about what the party stood for and what its values are. Instead of focus group tested micro policies for the middle he went back to basics. And in the process ruled out coalition…
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Open mike 28/08/2023
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Be afraid be very afraid – the next Government could be really strange
If there was a change of Government the next Government could potentially be full of fundamentalist Christians, anti vaxers and all sorts of people whose view of Aotearoa is not conventional or reality based. Act has a number of candidates who, how to put this…
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Open mike 27/08/2023
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Self-destructive stupidity, New Zealand style
By Tim Beal, cross-posted from Pearls and Irritations ‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad’ What a pity it is that we no longer believe in capricious gods because that would offer a good explanation for the otherwise quite perplexing habit of governments,…
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Semour is more like Rimmer than Mandela
David Seymour reached even more absurd levels of idiocy this week with a suggestion that if he was alive Nelson Mandela would be an Act supporter. From Amy Ridout at Stuff: “Every country that has ever tried to do what this government has tried to…
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National’s very bad week
A welcome reprieve for the left this week as the right had what is known in football terms as a bit of a shocker. National MP Tim Van Der Molen has been found to have been in contempt of Parliament for aggressive, hostile and threatening…
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Foreign Interference
New Zealand Parliamentarians are certainly facing foreign-funded political interference from China. It’s just not from the official Communist Party-led nation. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China is a rag-tag collection of self-selected right-wing parliamentarians from around the world. It was founded in 2020 when the anti-CPC…
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Open mike 26/08/2023
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Daily review 25/08/2023
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Eugenie Sage’s farewell
Green MP and former Minister of Conservation and Minister for Land Information, Eugenic Sage gave her valedictory statement in parliament this week. As always, if you want to understand green politics, listen to what the Green MPs say themselves, and this is no exception. Video…
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Open mike 25/08/2023
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Daily review 24/08/2023
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Open mike 24/08/2023
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Daily review 23/08/2023
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Fifteen Green MPs, or more
TVNZ's Verian Poll on Monday had the Greens at 12%. If that holds on election day, it's close to 15 Green MPs in parliament. It would also be the most MPs the Greens have ever had in parliament. The Greens are saying it's because of…
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Open mike 23/08/2023
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Daily review 22/08/2023
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Education policy and the compulsory teaching of subjects
The brains trust of Labour's leadership have recently released a policy providing for the compulsory teaching of financial literacy in schools. From the press release: Labour will make it compulsory for all schools to teach financial literacy from 2025, to address low levels of money…
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This press release was brought to you on behalf of National’s sponsors
Some action today on twitter shows how allowing large donations can raise questions about parties having conflicts of interest. It started with this tweet which attracted my attention. https://twitter.com/_breadcapital/status/1693366900540244190 And a deeper dive into the background raises some interesting issues and a few questions that…