Daily review 15/08/2022
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About Gaurav Sharma
Recent incidents involving Labour MP Gaurav Sharma are evidence of poor relationships with staff and not anything more sinister.
Open mike 15/08/2022
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The weird arrangement for MP’s staffers
With recent allegations of bullying of staff hitting the media it is important to understand the relationship between a Member of Parliament and their Parliamentary Services staff.
Stuff’s Fire and Fury major investigation into the occupation of Parliament grounds
The Wellington occupation was supposed to be about ending the mandates, but a new Stuff Circuit documentary investigates those behind the protest and discovers they have far bigger and more dangerous goals.
Open mike 14/08/2022
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Open mike 13/08/2022
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Daily review 12/08/2022
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Molloy drops out of Mayoralty race
Self described tough man Leo Molloy has found the going too tough and has pulled out of the Auckland mayoralty race.
Bastards Versus Assholes
This post was written before Gaurav Sharma’s Herald article and should not be taken as validation of his comments. There are necessary bastards in political life, and in developed democracies compared to everywhere else ours are gentle as lambs
Notes from the CATA Conference: keynote address by Stella O’Malley
The Child and Adolescent Therapists Association hosted a conference recently on children, adolescents and gender identity.
Open mike 12/08/2022
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Daily review 11/08/2022
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Greens: Bill to ban mining on conservation land pulled from biscuit tin
Eugenie Sage’s Members Bill has been drawn.
“We call on the Labour Government to back the Bill so it can finally fulfil its promise to ban new mining projects on public conservation land”
The Three Strikes abomination is no more
The three strikes legislation, the brainchild of dead baby identity stealing former ACT MP David Garrett, is no more.
Open mike 11/08/2022
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Daily review 10/08/2022
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Uffindel’s new allegation
Radio New Zealand has published new allegations of bullying by National MP Sam Uffindell this time by a female flatmate who flatted with Uffindell while at University.
Open mike 10/08/2022
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Daily review 09/08/2022
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Was This The Change We Needed?
Crises that profoundly test a small developed state like New Zealand have required huge growth in state strength and policy power. But was it the change we needed?
Open mike 09/08/2022
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National’s culture problem
National MP Sam Uffindell has today been engaged in a media wide mea culpa after allegations that he bullied a young student and was expelled from Kings College have been publicised.
Daily review 08/08/2022
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Open mike 08/08/2022
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National tries to blame Labour for National’s tax flip flop flip
Chris Bishop has accused Labour of engaging in dirty politics for pointing out that this week National has changed its policy on income tax indexation twice.
Open mike 07/08/2022
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Open mike 06/08/2022
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Daily review 05/08/2022
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Socialist economic views on current inflation
Energy costs, supply line issues, worker rights.
Open mike 05/08/2022
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Daily review 04/08/2022
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Luxon’s latest gaffes
Hot on his confusion of Hawaii with Te Puke Christopher Luxon’s has dropped a couple of new clangers by admitting then denying that National will not increase health funding at least by the rate of inflation and then by displaying his class prejudice by saying people are not going to get rich on welfare.
National’s weird take on the Government’s Climate Adaption Plan
The Government’s release of the National Adaption Plan to deal with climate change has been met by National with an insistence that who should pay for potentially hundreds of billions of costs should have already been identified.
Should therapists and counsellors speak about the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children?
Is there a connection between the closure of the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in the UK, and a conference being held 12,000 miles away in Nelson, Aotearoa?
Open mike 04/08/2022
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