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Daily review 30/09/2026
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Open Mike 30/09/2026
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Daily review 29/09/2026
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Nicola Willis high on a surplus of inflation and unemployment
The pre-election projection has been released by Treasury. Radio NZ Nicola Willis has been given a pre-election reprieve, with Treasury painting a brighter picture of the government's finances in the short term. But the update comes with a sting in the tail for voters, with…
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Watch Waitaki
Damien O’Connor has a unique chance to wrest the safe seat of Waitaki off National’s Miles Anderson. The last time a seat in the vicinity of Central Otago was not in the safe possession of National was when David Parker won the then-marginal seat of…
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The Latest One News Verian Poll
It's only one poll, but it's broadly in line with other recent polls, except for Act vs NZF, which I'm a bit doubtful about. Key observations... The combined vote for the two main parties is at an all-time low and slipping. This is in line…
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Open Mike 29/09/2026
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Daily review 28/09/2026
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Talking up the left
National and Labour had their election campaign launches on the weekend. Here is Chris Hipkins pointing out what will happen with another term of National. (Transcript) That's what chaos costs you. Three more years of drift. Three more years of cuts. Three more years of…
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Open Mike 28/09/2026
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Peak Trump
Remember when the leader of the National Party made sure everyone could see his MAGA hat in the background? Not even Winston Peters would be so foolish now. September 2026 is a long, long way from peak Trump January 2026. In Trump’s first two years…
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Stanford gets caught out
National has this habit of attacking teachers. It must resonate with its base because it is a common occurrance. There appears to be two incentives, they want to attack the teacher's union and they want to skewer the curriculum away from woke nonsense which is…
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Theme update
As you can see, I've rewritten the theme for The Standard. It is now a modern Gutenberg block theme that just happens to look somewhat like the custom theme that has been running here since 2010. It had a few enhancements on the way. I…
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Open Mike 27/09/2026
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Open Mike 26/09/2026
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Daily review 25/09/2026
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Government is pathetic on gassing
Over the last three years, our current incompetent government has been running New Zealand into an artificial recession. But they keep blaming the previous government, especially on the oil and gas exploration ban. So over three years how have they done to realise active exploration?…
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Open Mike 25/09/2026
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Daily review 24/09/2026
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National’s LNG terminal tax is on hold (for the moment).
National had proposed building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Port Taranaki. Ostensibly this was to provide dry year support for the electricity generators to burn gas to run turbines whenever New Zealand had a dry year that caused hydro dams to be short…
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Open Mike 24/09/2026
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Daily review 23/09/2026
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Unmasking the TaxPayers Union as the Tobacco Protection Union
I haven't read Nicky Hagers' new book Dirty Work yet, mostly because it will take some time to drift towards this end of the earth. There wasn't a e-pub option to purchase. Most of the book highlights in the release and the news media I…
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Open Mike 23/09/2026
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Daily review 22/09/2026
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Open Mike 22/09/2026
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Daily review 21/09/2026
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Open Mike 21/09/2026
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Hager’s next book
This Tuesday Nicky Hager is releasing a new book. No details have been given yet but I suspect that it will investigate Taxpayer's Union and other Astroturf organisations. And the TPU (or should that be TP Ltd) is worried. A book about the TPU has…
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Open Mike 20/09/2026
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