Open mike 14/10/2022
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Daily review 13/10/2022
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Too Old For Politics
Can you be too old to represent your people? New Zealand’s oldest person to first get elected was William Cargill at 71. Australia’ […]
Climate change: I think that we are f&*ked
This week the Government announced plans to bring in a scheme for pricing farming emissions in 2025. National’s response suggests the prospects of political consensus are non existent.
Open mike 13/10/2022
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Open mike 12/10/2022
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Daily review 11/10/2022
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We needed Wayne Brown
The left and the Ardern government need to start appreciating the new Auckland mayor.
RNZ, Three Waters and partisan commentary
Yesterday on Radio New Zealand’s Political Commentator’s show Bridget Morten said that three waters is a toxic thing for the Government but then declared that her law firm represents a group currently taking the Government to Court over three waters. Should such clearly partisan views be given expression by RNZ?
Open mike 11/10/2022
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Daily review 10/10/2022
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The people have spoken
The people have spoken and with appallingly low turnout levels grumpy campaigns have succeeded and Auckland and other areas have moved to the right.
Open mike 10/10/2022
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Open mike 09/10/2022
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Local Government election results
Live updates and discussion post
Open mike 08/10/2022
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Daily review 07/10/2022
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Open mike 07/10/2022
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Daily review 06/10/2022
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Own our future
This year’s Local Government election is reaching a critical stage. And it is vital to get the right people elected. Please make sure that your families and friends vote for progressive candidates. Your kids and your grandkids futures depend on it.
Open mike 06/10/2022
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Daily review 05/10/2022
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Open mike 05/10/2022
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Daily review 04/10/2022
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What if we had a Transition Enabling Act?
At a time when we are inundated with news of the end of the world, ideas of the way through are crucial. This one is brilliant – legislation that would enable all the things we need for Transition to happen. The great potential here is for change in a climate-meaningful timeframe.
Open mike 04/10/2022
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Daily review 03/10/2022
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Sometimes in our quest for what is perfect we forget what has been achieved
A list of improvements in workers’ rights that Labour has been able to achieve since gaining power in 2017.
The difference between Simon Wilson and Mike Hosking
Wayne Brown’s mayoral campaign hit a really big pothole on the weekend when he was caught bad mouthing Herald reporter Simon Wilson. His comments received a lot of support from the right on social media who made comments about Wilson similar to the comments the left make about Mike Hosking. Are these examples of the same phenomenon, political bias against critical commentators?
Open mike 03/10/2022
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A few notes on how to get out of this mess
“In an unstable complex system, small islands of coherence have the potential to change the whole system.” – Ilya Progogine.
Open mike 02/10/2022
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Open mike 01/10/2022
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Daily review 30/09/2022
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Local Body Election voting options: Taranaki Regional Council and Urs Signer
Urs Signer is standing for the Taranaki Regional Council, and is speaking a lot of sense about working with farmers, iwi and greenies for a Just Transition.
If Truss was the answer it is difficult to work out what the question was
Liz Truss has been UK Prime Minister for just over three weeks. Instead of enjoying a honeymoon in a short term she has crashed the UK economy and political support for her party and her days must be numbered.