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Cross posted from Mountain Tui's substack post. This morning, 1 News is reporting that the cancellation of the i-Rex ferries has so far cost taxpayers $484 million. That's almost half a billion dollars. That could probably fund thousands of new doctors, maybe complete a few…
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In policy announcement after policy announcement the Government is showing its complete disdain for doing something about climate change. Who can forget how they: Are winding back speed restrictions especially around schools. Unfortunately the faster you go the more carbon dioxide you produce and the…
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With all of the issues about Green party MPs, who have been having issues recently, I was intrigued to run across the article in the Guardian "Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people" after the recent election in the UK.…
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By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies. Cross-posted from Common Dreams After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British…
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Minister for Workplace Relations and Health & Safety Brooke van Velden hasn’t met with the CTU Te Kauae Kaimahi since November last year. Apparently not with Business NZ either. Though to be fair, she did manage to get to the Biz NZ cocktail party and…
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Guest posted with permission from Mountain Tui's substack post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7U8yhac-Bw Last week the Coalition Govt said they were doing away with the name “fast-track.” This is a Govt of professional lobbyists so I am not surprised by their attunement to marketing. “Fast-track” became bad for business. Many people…
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Watching from afar the UK election results were an interesting thing to witness. The take away is that Labour had a really good night. When you win 412 seats and double the number of seats that you hold many would think that this was a…
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Update: Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected in his electorate as an independent candidate. https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1809274969949675932 A generic post to cover the United Kingdom election results as they come in. Looks like the Conservatives will be hammered. One can only hope ... And for those nostalgic for…
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Chris Bishop is today giving a speech to the Real Estate Institute on its plans to accelerate housing growth. The subject of the speech, how to increase housing supply, is obviously one that will appeal to the REINZ. All those extra houses to sell ...…
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Trust in politicians is at a record low. This is true for the UK during its General Election Campaign, with multiple surveys showing that most voters are dissatisfied with how the UK is governed. In Aotearoa, this depressing trend is also reported in polls. What…
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Last week was the Government's law and order week. The bastard son of the three strikes law aka the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill was introduced into Parliament. As I said previously the law had a somewhat disturbed background. Its original proponent was someone…
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