Open mike 04/12/2022
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Open mike 03/12/2022
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Daily review 02/12/2022
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Open mike 02/12/2022
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Daily review 01/12/2022
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Open mike 01/12/2022
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Daily review 30/11/2022
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Co-Governance is Orthodox Policy for both National and Labour
National, the party which enacted legislation that gave Waikato command over the allocation of the Waikato River, iwi command over the Taupo catchment and full Maori control over the massive Uruwera water catchment, has not traditionally been opposed to co governance.
Open mike 30/11/2022
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Daily review 29/11/2022
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Three strikes law is not the answer
National is proposing a return of the Three Strikes legislation, despite the Supreme Court ruling that the law went well beyond excessive punishment and would shock the conscience of properly informed New Zealanders, and was so disproportionately severe as to breach the Bill of Rights. And despite there being no evidence that it would actually work.
Open mike 29/11/2022
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Daily review 28/11/2022
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Newscorp and Victorian Liberals were just so out of touch. Just like National and Act here
The Liberal/Nat victory that Newscorp had been promoting in the Victorian state elections simply didn’t materialise. For some reason pandering to the loud and noisy just isn’t what it used to be. Fortunately those who still rely on traditional media and who haven’t been immunised against the idiots on the net are a diminishing voting resource.
What Is Labour’s Purpose This Term?
It is time to set out succinctly and without recourse to abstract nouns exactly what this Labour government has intended, is doing, and how it seeks to alter the country.
Open mike 28/11/2022
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Overblown rhetoric and Laura Norder
This week has seen some extreme rhetoric from various quarters about who to blame for a recent senseless killing. But news that the person arrested had recently been extradited from Australia has shown the rhetoric to be entirely misplaced.
Open mike 27/11/2022
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Open mike 26/11/2022
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Daily review 25/11/2022
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Medical gender transition in New Zealand: How common is it really?
Laura López decided to explore and analyse the available evidence on medical transition in New Zealand.
Open mike 25/11/2022
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Prime Minister Ardern and Premier Xi
New Zealand has the most adroit and high profile international leader in a generation with Prime Minister Ardern, but she has weakened New Zealand against China.
Daily review 24/11/2022
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Can New Zealand’s Tech Sector Ride Adjustment Out?
Remember when New Zealand farming was a sunset industry and tech would rise in its place?
Open mike 24/11/2022
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Daily review 23/11/2022
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Open mike 23/11/2022
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Daily review 22/11/2022
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Things To Do By The Time You’re 80
As Joe Biden celebrates his 80th birthday in office and Donald Trump announces he will stand for President again in 2024, here’s a list of what Biden has done in his last few years. He’s still low in the polls, but the delivery is very strong.
Open mike 22/11/2022
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Surviving the apocalypse of the Great Twit
The Great Twit at Twitter has been cauterising off staff in excess. I suspect that the platform is going to go down the toilet for that (amongst other reasons). My concern here has been to preserve the embedded tweets in posts and comments on this site if the idiot engineer manages to destroy the platform through simple stupidity.
The politics of the voting age change
The Supreme Court has just lobbed a grenade into New Zealand politics by ruling that denying 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote was not only discrimination on the basis of age but also had not been justified and was therefore a breach of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.
Diplomatic Values
Trudeau got a 10-minute stand-up with Xi followed by a public shirt-fronting, Albanese a 32-minute sit-down, and Jacinda Ardern a 50-minute formal bilateral. In the carefully calibrated world of the diplomatic dance-card, that says something. New Zealand would be foolish not to take advantage of what is on offer from China.
Daily review 21/11/2022
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National’s Boot Camps announcement is deeply cynical policy recycling
There should be a law against the cynical recycling of dog whistle policies that everyone knows will not work. Last week’s announcement by National of a boot camp policy is as good an example as you can imagine.