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This is a repost of Mountain Tui's Substack article This Friday afternoon, Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka announced an overhaul of the Waitangi Tribunal. The government has effectively cleared house - appointing 8 new members - and combined with October’s appointment of former ACT leader…
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That grinding noise you can hear from the Parliamentary precinct is the sound of National backbenchers sharpening their knives getting ready for a change of leadership. Because the latest Curia poll shows National has fallen behind Labour in the preferred party stakes. And that the…
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The final Atlas Network playbook puzzle piece is here, and it slipped in to Aotearoa New Zealand with little fan fare or attention. The implications are stark. Today the submission for the Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill closes: 11:59pm January 16, 2025. As usual,…
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I have spent some of the holidays reading various documents relating to the Cook Strait Ferries contract which was somewhat ignominiously brought to a shuddering halt in December 2023 just after National gained power. The documents provide interesting background. The project started well enough. A…
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In the past two decades, election results in western Europe, Australasia, and North America have been framed as a crisis of the left. It’s more a case of misidentified success that’s holding the left back, than a primrose path to a tragedian graveyard. The performance…
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It’s understandable that Labour has been relatively quiet after their brutal election defeat in 2023 followed by a gruelling 2024. The summer break is for rest and reflection and politicians are human too and have friends and family to spend quality time with. However, the…
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Over in the US of A the state of California is currently dealing with multiple large and out of control fires. From the Guardian: Even on their own, the fires are behemoths. Palisades, the first and largest fire, is spreading west of Los Angeles. Burning…
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It’s common these days to see the rapid 2024 exit of multiple global social democrat leaders as just a post-COVID symptom of democratic impatience. But Biden achieved far more than his age-related decline obscures. The first two years of his presidency were all about stabilising…
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While he scoops up behind Minister Willis’s Cook Strait ferry disaster, he’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and our primary lead on the rise of President Trump and boy does he have a job ahead of him. The United States is accelerating its massive disengagement with…
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Six months late and in the middle of the holiday period and without any fanfare the Taxpayer's Union has released its financial results for the year ending December 31, 2023 which also happened to be election year. Income was impressive and included a total of…
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Star Trek: A humanist communist manifesto for our times - UNHERD - Yanis VaroufakisThat Star Trek depicts a communist society, without of course calling it that, is crystal clear.Of course the Federation is a Humanist Free Communist society. Not an Authoritarian Communist Oligarchy. On 9…
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Now I sure don’t like him, but the U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump makes more things possible in the Middle East than the Biden administration. For the sake of this proposal let's make a whole group of Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Israel, Oman, Gulf States…
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It appears that the Government may be taking an arguably overly assertive step to assist Phillip Morris's bottom line. It has been announced that they will be supplying vaping starter kits to stop smoking services. It is not known at this stage who will be…
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