The right’s last desperate throw of the dice in Auckland
Even though her name is on the ballot paper and people can vote for her National aligned Mayoral candidate Viv Beck has purported to withdraw from the Auckland Mayoral race.
Open mike 16/09/2022
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Daily review 15/09/2022
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RIP KGD ONZ
Ken Douglas was a big man, in every sense of the word, and a great man, deeply involved in his community right through his life, from the Drivers’ Union to the Porirua City Council.
What is This We Feel?
When Queen Elizabeth is buried it will be the last time we say goodbye to her. More than her.
Open mike 15/09/2022
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Daily review 14/09/2022
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The right is weirdly gleeful about the end of the mask mandate
National MPs and their supporters have been celebrating the removal of the mandate with weird levels of glee.
Open mike 14/09/2022
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Daily review 13/09/2022
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Who pays the cost of an extra day off?
The Government has announced that we will all have a day off to commemorate the life of Queen Elisabeth. Act has come out against it on the basis that we are in a cost of living crisis, even though the adverse effect on workers and the poor is essentially nil and even though there is analysis that suggests that holidays are good for the economy.
Open mike 13/09/2022
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Daily review 12/09/2022
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Covid review due today
The Government is to make an announcement today on the future of covid mandates and the traffic light system. With infection numbers and hospitalisation and death rates plummeting it appears likely that these measures will not be renewed.
Open mike 12/09/2022
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Freedom is Not Guaranteed: Sometimes You Must Fight
If we fail to support Ukraine’s struggle we all lose far more than self rule for 44 million people.
Open mike 11/09/2022
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Open mike 10/09/2022
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Daily review 09/09/2022
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Open mike 09/09/2022
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Daily review 08/09/2022
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Re-Nationalise Electricity Generators Now
This COVID era is the decade in which the state is back, bigger and faster than ever before. But the one area this government won’t let the state expand again is the one area in which New Zealand is the most vulnerable: electricity generation. It needs to change.
Open mike 08/09/2022
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Daily review 07/09/2022
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Transition at the Limits of What People Can Cope With
Many European governments now face a perfect storm of threatened energy security, rising inflation, war-propelled refugee crisis, and climate objectives. New Zealand be warned.
Open mike 07/09/2022
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Daily review 06/09/2022
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Newshub’s incredibly bad gang take
Yesterday the Government announced a slate of new powers designed to address gang violence. Newshub chose that day to imply that Labour was soft on gangs because a gang member said on social media not to vote for National.
Open mike 06/09/2022
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Daily review 05/09/2022
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Voting for our lives: protecting the environment from the late capitalism death cult
Environment Southland gives the ok for intensive farming on the edge of Fiordland National Park. Everyday there’s more news of disastrous decisions being made by people in power. The local body elections in the next month give us one easy and straightforward way to change that.
Open mike 05/09/2022
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‘Training’ for an early grave
We’re sending 120 troops to Britain to ‘train’ raw recruits for the Ukraine killing grounds. For the Defence Generals, it’s an overseas trip to aid retention. For the Ukrainian conscripts, it’s a prelude to early death. It is cynical and criminal: we should be arguing for the war to stop, not keep it going ”to the death of the last Ukrainian.”
Open mike 04/09/2022
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Open mike 03/09/2022
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Daily review 02/09/2022
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