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Date published: 10:15 am, May 3rd, 2023 - 138 comments
Meka Whaitiri has quit Labour and confirmed that she will stand for the Maori Party in this year’s election. She intends to stay on as an MP and sit with the Maori Party.
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Date published: 8:40 am, May 3rd, 2023 - 36 comments
Recent days have provided a further example of why Aotearoa’s response to climate change has been compromised by politics.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 3rd, 2023 - 97 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 2nd, 2023 - 9 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 2nd, 2023 - 42 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 1st, 2023 - 8 comments
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Date published: 8:34 am, May 1st, 2023 - 33 comments
National has been caught out misrepresenting official data by claiming that 19,000 nurses had left public health when they knew that the figure includes transfers between health boards and the number of employed nurses actually increased by 4,108.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 1st, 2023 - 40 comments
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Date published: 10:31 am, April 30th, 2023 - 73 comments
This week Chris Bishop announced National’s landlord policy and made the extraordinary claim that making evictions of tenants easier was a progressive pro tenant policy.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 30th, 2023 - 38 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 29th, 2023 - 49 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 28th, 2023 - 3 comments
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Date published: 12:00 pm, April 28th, 2023 - 78 comments
I’ve worked my way through two books recently, both on extremist sects, one about New Zealand groups and one about those in the United States of America. It’s startling.
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Date published: 10:41 am, April 28th, 2023 - 37 comments
This government has within its power the ability to alter the crippling cost of living increases we now face. If they don’t do the political job they can do with prices, they will lose power at the election.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 28th, 2023 - 27 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 27th, 2023 - 7 comments
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Date published: 8:09 am, April 27th, 2023 - 186 comments
With the release by David Parker of a report showing that the wealthiest New Zealanders pay tax at much less than half the rate of other Kiwis is it time to again debate the virtue of a comprehensive Capital Gains Tax.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 27th, 2023 - 3 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 26th, 2023 - 20 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 26th, 2023 - 49 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 25th, 2023 - 92 comments
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Date published: 10:16 pm, April 24th, 2023 - 63 comments
Andrew Little says our government is willing to “explore” participating in AUKUS Pillar 2, but “foreign or local voices would not be a factor.” Our leaders will decide he says. I say “taihoa.”
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 24th, 2023 - 4 comments
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Date published: 10:57 am, April 24th, 2023 - 44 comments
In election year, National’s farming regulations bonfire flies in the face of climate action and ecological restoration.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 24th, 2023 - 50 comments
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Date published: 12:58 pm, April 23rd, 2023 - 16 comments
The Murdoch family’s decision to pay record damages to Dominion Voting Systems and to capitulate in its defamation case against Cricky Media suggest that they have had a very bad and a very expensive week.
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Date published: 8:51 am, April 23rd, 2023 - 40 comments
One of the prime tasks of feminism is to teach women that the patriarchy is not inevitable.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 23rd, 2023 - 49 comments
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Date published: 11:16 am, April 22nd, 2023 - 44 comments
Right wing twitter thought it was onto something big yesterday after there were revelations that Human Rights Commissioner Meng Foon had donated funds and cheap premises to Kiri Allan’s election campaign in 2020. But there was one rather significant problem with this expose, he had also donated to the National candidate in the same election.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 22nd, 2023 - 145 comments
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