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Open Mike 22/08/25
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Daily review 21/08/2025
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No mandate for this
This post excerpt is republished from Mountain Tui: Nurses, doctors, teachers ... our frontline of democracy The government’s apparent docking of nurses' pay for working in their wards for their full 12.5 hour shift, is made possible from ACT's partial strike law, which I covered…
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Open Mike 21/08/25
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Daily review 20/08/2025
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Nicola Willis: National gave “tens of dollars” to Kiwis
Listening to the Morning Report political panel (video here) is a painful exercise. Not only did Ingrid Hipkiss allow Willis to talk over and effectively berate Carmel Sepuloni with “How are you going to pay for it?” six times within a minute, Hipkiss also threw…
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Open Mike 20/08/25
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Daily review 19/08/2025
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National Government will have increased gross debt by over $100b – Who benefits ?
First, there is nothing inherently wrong with government debt. It’s what we do with it that matters. In 2023, government debt across OECD countries averaged 110.5% of GDP. New Zealand remained one of the lowest. Net debt i.e in a simple sense, debt - assets…
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“Dirty Politics” Rachel Glucina Is Behind Nicola Willis PM Rumours
This morning reports appeared on Stuff and The Post that some members of The New Zealand Society in London saw Nicola Willis as "the next Prime Minister of New Zealand". The source of those rumours was reportedly an "Auckland journalist" called Rachel Glucina. That was…
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Open Mike 19/08/25
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Daily review 18/08/2025
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The $671 million dollar woman
Today marks the final sailing of the Aratere which is being retired because it is no longer up to scratch. This will mean that rail freight will be affected. The Aratere was the only rail enabled ferry. One would wonder how this could occur. After…
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The Curious Case of Central Otago
How can a region be so pretty, so rich, but so poor? It has always confounded me that the Dunedin Club didn’t just have a get-together in 1989 when jet aircraft first flew into Queenstown and go all-in to buy up Central Otago when it…
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Open Mike 18/08/25
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Open Mike 17/08/25
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Open Mike 16/08/25
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How was National able to take down construction so quickly?
The construction sector is NZ’s fifth largest industry and has been in the top 5 in the last few years. Its estimated to support ~11% of our workforce - i.e ~309,000 workers. And contributed around ~$26 billion NZD as at June 2024. In 2023, the…
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Daily review 15/08/2025
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Open Mike 15/08/25
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Daily review 14/08/2025
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Open Mike 14/08/25
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Should Labour attend a set-up?
Post republished from Mountain Tui Substack This afternoon, the Government Coalition and their affilates blanketed air waves with outcries about Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson, Chris Hipkins and Ayesha Verrall not physically fronting the second week of the Covid-19 inquiry - intended to be a public…
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Daily review 13/08/2025
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What does this Government have against Te Reo Māori?
The Government has been caught out engaging in more te reo bashing. From TVNZ: Education Minister Erica Stanford has imposed a near total ban on Māori in new additions to a series of books used to teach five-year-olds to read. An Education Ministry report shows…
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Open Mike 13/08/25
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Daily review 12/08/2025
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Helen Clark on Palestine
This morning I listened to Helen Clark on Morning Report talking about the Palestine issue. The interview brought back memories of the fifth Labour Government and Helen's supreme ability to analyse and describe complex situations simply. About New Zealand's delay in recognising Palestine as an…
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Ani O’Brien’s weird take on homelessness
Ani O'Brien thinks that claims by Green co leader Chloe Swarbrick that the Government is intentionally increasing homelessness are engaging in hyperbole and are not true. From her substack: Chlöe Swarbrick wants you to believe the Government is intentionally increasing homelessness. She told RNZ’s Mata with Mihingarangi Forbes:…
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Open Mike 12/08/25
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