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Daily review 07/06/2024
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March for Nature
The Greenpeace organised March for Nature is on tomorrow in Auckland, starting from Aotea Square at 1 pm. There is already significant interest in the march but this is a numbers game. Be there, bring your whanau, bring friends. Make it noisy and passionate and…
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Open mike 07/06/2024
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Daily review 06/06/2024
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Lies Damn Lies and Police Statistics
There should be an offence for Police Ministers seeking to mislead the public by the inappropriate use of police statistics. Because this is what Mark Mitchell has engaged in. On Tuesday night he was reported as saying at a meeting that police patrols had increased…
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Open mike 06/06/2024
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Daily review 05/06/2024
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National’s irksome incompetence is inexcusable
By breaking its election promise to fund 13 new cancer treatments the members of National Party in the coalition government showed a profound lack of integrity and a distinct lack of commitment to follow through with doing the right thing. The first quality of a…
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Open mike 05/06/2024
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Daily review 04/06/2024
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National/Act – good at breaking public services
Today is my 65th birthday. So I'm trying to check out a PDF letter on MyMSD which probably has some details about superannuation. Login using RealMe, go to the letters and click and get ERR_CONNECTION_RESET consistently. Try to report this using the online system and…
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Open mike 04/06/2024
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The National Party has a pattern of broken election promises
In an extended state of cynical arrogance the National Party thought it could dash the hope of cancer sufferers and dump its election promise to fund 13 new cancer treatments and get away with it. As it turns out, National also broke its election promise…
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The Big Budget Backflip *
That did not take long. It looks like the focus groups have spoken and barely three days after the budget was presented National has done a 360 degree level of difficulty 7 backflip on one of its major policy announcements. Which one you may ask?…
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Open mike 03/06/2024
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Open mike 02/06/2024
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Anti-Muslim, anti-black, pro-Zionist: UK Labour goes for purge
I attended Faiza Shaheen’s impressive candidate launch in Chingford four years ago. She aimed to take on IDS and she dented his majority. Reselected two years ago by the local Labour Party, four days ago she was deselected by a 3-person kangaroo court from the…
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Putting Politics over People
The coalition government has the compassion of a weed trimmer. It spins around fast, cutting everything within its reach to the same level without discern or concern, no more, no less. A weed trimmer doesn’t promise to cut down trees, chop & mulch wood, or…
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The QE2 covenant, the Mining Company and the donation to NZ First
Radio New Zealand has broken the jaw dropping and astounding story that shows why the Fast Track Projects Bill is potentially so corrupting to the body politic and why there has to be electoral law reform to stop corporations from buying influence. From Farah Hancock…
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Open mike 01/06/2024
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Daily review 31/05/2024
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Open mike 31/05/2024
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Daily review 30/05/2024
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Budget Smudgeit
So the budget is now live and the analysis is now starting. There are tax cuts. There are tax cuts, $15 billion of them. But there is also an increase in borrowing of $12 billion. And it will take a further year to reach surplus.…
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The Budget Day Protests
Protests by Māori and Tangata Tiriti against government policy are underway on the day of the National government's first budget. Carkoi and Hikoi are taking place in many locations across the country. Stuff have a backgrounder from last week on why Māori are protesting, Government…
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Open mike 30/05/2024
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Daily review 29/05/2024
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Open mike 29/05/2024
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Is our investment in defence value for money?
By Marie Russell, reposted from Newsroom Opinion: All up, defence cost us more than $6.7 billion in 2023/24. There were 14,996 people working for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) at June 2023, while others dealt with procurement and policy in the non-military wing, the…
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Daily review 28/05/2024
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