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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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What does the Government have against Māori wards?
The Government is moving with urgency to reverse Labour's repeal of referenda for Māori wards on local councils. There are a couple of barbs. Every Council that created Māori wards without a referendum since the amending legislation was passed and who wishes to keep the…
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Open mike 28/05/2024
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Daily review 27/05/2024
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Open mike 27/05/2024
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What is that word that starts with “C” and ends with “orruption”?
The past fortnight has seen a number of breaking stories each of which raises concerns about the motivations and goals of this Government. It makes you wonder whether the pursuit of self interest is an embedded feature as opposed to a bug. Each story of…
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Open mike 26/05/2024
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Is Shane Jones Right About Mining?
On Thursday Minister Jones launched his new pro-mining strategy in a rural village that was the actual birthplace of the Labour Party. "I deliberately chose to come to Blackball because we need to re-legitimise [and] reinvigorate mining," the former Labour MP said. "It's been abandoned…
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The Luxon Government’s War on Nature
Greenpeace really packing it in here. The video is edited down, but here is five minutes of Russel Norman on fire, laying out the problems with the government's slash and burn economy, one after the other. https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/1793875329536380935 The Coalition Against the Fast Track are organising…
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Open mike 25/05/2024
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Daily review 24/05/2024
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Open mike 24/05/2024
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Daily review 23/05/2024
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“It’s the end of the Tories…”
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces UK general election for Thursday 4 July https://youtu.be/q9-0WGo9Zrk?si=F_d4_IWdNgWA0GRU
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Open mike 23/05/2024
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Daily review 22/05/2024
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Making up for lost time
Benjamin Franklin observed that “You may delay but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” This came to mind when considering the reported outcome of last weekend’s Auckland regional conference of the Labour Party. Members were seized by the need for change.…
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Open mike 22/05/2024
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Daily review 21/05/2024
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National MP *forgets* to declare $178,000 in donations
In breaking news New Plymouth National MP David MacLeod apparently *forgot* to declare $178,000 in declarations to the Electoral Commission. From Radio New Zealand: National MP David MacLeod failed to declare 19 candidate donations worth $178,000 to the Electoral Commission, in what he says was…
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Speech time
I attended the Auckland Regional Labour Party conference last weekend. It was very well attended, with more than 200 people there at its peak. What was really pleasing was that the average age of attendees has come down dramatically. There were many familiar older faces…
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