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Open mike 19/03/2024
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Daily review 18/03/2024
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Tell Auckland Council don’t privatise the Port
The Maritime Union of New Zealand has set up an online petition urging Auckland Council not to privatise Auckland Port and also this very helpful web page allowing people to make submissions on Auckland Council's draft long term plan, where the privatisation proposal is being…
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Open mike 18/03/2024
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Open mike 17/03/2024
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Amateur hour
If ever you needed an example of why urgency and trying to rush things through is a bad thing this week has given a classic example. As part of Simeon Brown's vendetta against all things that may actually address climate change he has proposed the…
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Open mike 16/03/2024
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Daily review 15/03/2024
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National’s Overseas Gambling Levy policy figures are not rock solid
The Governnment has been rocked by a further advice release suggesting that its fiscal policy is anything but rock solid. Two days ago I said: The offshore gambling tax, estimated to be worth $716 million over four years, is looking decidedly unlikely. Labour thought National…
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Open mike 15/03/2024
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Daily review 14/03/2024
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Luxon on rents – another National economic idiot
I read the statement by our current PM Christopher Luxon about what landlords will do with his plan to reduce their costs from interest rates. I was incredulous that this lummox had ever paid attention during even a basic economics course. Landlords aren't going to…
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Open mike 14/03/2024
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Daily review 13/03/2024
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Rock Solid Financial Geniuses
As I said earlier the right has this belief that they are economic geniuses. Their reason for being is that they will make the economy better. The eternal question is who for, the answer tends to be for the rich and the rest of us…
Christopher Luxon making shit up national same old national spin tax you couldn't make this shit up
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Catherine, Princess of Wales
Catherine, Princess of Wales and family circa 2024 1.5-2°C policies could see lifestyle/health/job-security/affordability improvements for most, but only thro' a massive shift of labour/resources from furnishing the relative luxuries of us fortunate few to decarbonising energy/infrastructure. Kevin Anderson - Professor of energy & climate change…
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Open mike 13/03/2024
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Daily review 12/03/2024
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Open mike 12/03/2024
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Daily review 11/03/2024
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Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Recently the Government has been working out how to cut funding for school lunches for poor kids while at the same time it has also announced that it will restore interest deductibility for landlords. The interest deductibility changes are being pushed through by tweaking an…
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Open mike 11/03/2024
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Chloe Swarbrick’s first words as new Green Party Co-Leader
If you want to understand the Greens, listen to them in their own words. Chloe Swarbrick's press conference: Video here, starts at 10m 30, 7 minutes then press questions. She's not holding back and it's well worth listening to the press Q&A. Lots of very…
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Vale, Magista
Respects to the falling of the Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt. Jonathan Hunt emerged from being a History, English and Latin teacher at Kelston Boys High School, then went pretty much into being selected as the New Lynn Labour candidate and romped home. Back in that…
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Open mike 10/03/2024
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“Deliberate nuclear use
in a war over Taiwan" is the title of an Atlantic Council paper produced last September. They mean nuclear weapons use. These are serious people; Undersecretary Bonnie Jenkins addressed them last year about AUKUS. The Atlantic Council paper's conclusion is specific: The United States might…
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News and New Zealand Democracy
How do we prevent the decline of broadcast tv news being a deep wound to our democracy? The 2024 collapse of TV3 news, a rapid contraction in TV1 journalism, and the sustained decline of print newspaper news, underscores how much our entire political order relies…
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Open mike 09/03/2024
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Luxon crashes in latest Curia poll
The Atlas aligned Taxpayer's Union has released its latest Curia poll results. I always have a certain sense of incredulity when reading Curia's poll results. Like the last one which suggested that Act's racist anti Treaty campaign had resulted in a surge of support. I…
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Daily review 08/03/2024
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