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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Daily review 03/08/2022
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What New Zealanders are thinking about climate change
A new Ipsos poll has some good news.
Chris Bishop supports AND opposes vaccine mandates
Remember when National’s Chris Bishop thought that Labour was not being staunch enough of mandates? He now thinks that Labour is being too staunch.
Open mike 03/08/2022
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Daily review 02/08/2022
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Open mike 02/08/2022
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Why stick more fingers in the donations dyke?
The latest attempt to construct a sensible political donations regime will likely again prove to be full of holes. Going back to basics would be much better. The good news is that the basics were comprehensively assessed 36 years ago by the 1986 Royal Commission on Electoral Reform. It recommended state funding.
Daily review 01/08/2022
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Political donations law needs reform
Judge Jagose’s decision to acquit two persons linked to New Zealand First charged with obtaining control over $750,000 has opened up rather large holes in the obligations of political parties to report donations.
Poverty is a political choice, why are Labour choosing it?
Labour announced earlier in the year that it would give a $350 cash transfer to all New Zealanders earning less than $70,000.
Except beneficiaries.
Open mike 01/08/2022
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Open mike 31/07/2022
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Open mike 30/07/2022
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Daily review 29/07/2022
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Why is the UK’s only youth gender identity clinic closing, and what does this mean for New Zealand?
The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a damning review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.
Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey Valedictory Lecture
Academic activism and speaking truth to power.
Open mike 29/07/2022
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Daily review 28/07/2022
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Best yet in National Party splatter series in production
The kicker in Andrea Vance’s Blue Blood, her insider’s view of the splatter-movie that has been the National Party since John Key stepped down, is that the best yet is in production. She chronicles treachery that has become the modus operandi of the vacuous vipers inhabiting the caucus. Details of the dirty work induce you to turn the page for more. It doesn’t look like Luxon is the redeemer.
Ardern’s Leadership Generates Pacific Results
New Zealand has been overdue to show strong results in the Pacific Islands. Not a moment too soon, this is what Prime Minister Ardern delivered.
Open mike 28/07/2022
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