What Can Be Saved?
The tide of this government is running out. There’s 18 months left in the term. What would you save?
Open mike 29/04/2022
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Daily review 28/04/2022
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Open mike 28/04/2022
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Daily review 27/04/2022
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Is Parker procrastinating or scene setting for fairer tax system?
Is Revenue Minister David Parker’s plan to gather tax data on the wealthy just more procrastination by this Labour government on making the tax system fairer? Or is it recognition the public debate needs a long-term frame to get a capital gains, or wealth tax, over the line?
Open mike 27/04/2022
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Who Will Protect Us From Media Power Now?
With RNZ and TVNZ now in full merger mode, we have yet another untested state megalith upon us. But where is the power that will hold it to account?
Daily review 26/04/2022
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Tame shows media how to interview Luxon
Jack Tame’s interview of Chris Luxon on Q&A suggests that the post leadership change honeymoon may now be over and that Luxon does not really understand how difficult a job being Prime Minister would be.
Open mike 26/04/2022
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Anzac Day
A more sombre and quieter Anzac Day today with planned ceremonies being pared back in this post Covid world.
Open mike 25/04/2022
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UK government signals urgent inquiry into overmedicalisation of gender non-conforming children
This is a medical scandal affecting children and teens, and the left is still largely in denial of it.
Open mike 24/04/2022
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According to National budget slashing is a man’s job
National leader Chris Luxon has publicly declared full confidence in National Finance Spokesperson Nicola Willis by proposing that former PM Bill English, not currently an MP, and Willis, who is an MP would be jointly directing the Ministers of every department to find savings.
Open mike 23/04/2022
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What if… Dunedin no longer needed so much petrol?
It’s 2032, and we’re looking back at a decade of oil, climate and economic crisis, and how one city found a way through.
Open mike 22/04/2022
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Greens: Urgent action needed to soften inflation blow for low income NZers
The Green Party says that if the Government is concerned about fiscal stimulus, the best approach would be to broaden the tax base to cover untaxed capital gains or wealth of the richest New Zealanders… Alongside broadening our tax base, the Green Party proposes a suite of policies.
Green Party press release
Luxon’s triple backward summersault on Labour Day
In the space of one day Chris Luxon called repeatedly for the scrapping of Labour Day as a holiday then confirmed that a future National Government would not do this and said that his earlier comment was facetious.
Open mike 21/04/2022
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RNZ’s weird take on MIQ
RNZ’s recent shock horror reporting on a memo from November 2021 proposing a wind back of MIQ is severely deficient. The framing is one sided and ignores the subsequent emergence of Omicron as a variant of concern.
Open mike 20/04/2022
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Daily review 19/04/2022
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Open mike 19/04/2022
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The battle lines for the next election
Despite Labour seeing the country through the biggest public health threat seen in the last century and despite improving numbers of houses and a reduction in child poverty some on the left are buying into National’s despair lines. And the issues on which the next election will be fought are becoming clearer.
Open mike 18/04/2022
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Open mike 17/04/2022
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Just how gross can a anti-vaccine enema be?
Everything has been too serious recently and kind of gross.
Lets keep the gross and but go for the satirical.
Enemas! Pimples!
Open mike 16/04/2022
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Does truth in politics no longer matter?
Over in the UK Boris Johnson has been fined for attending a party he told Parliament he did not attend and which was a gathering that did not breach Covid lockdown restrictions. Surely he should resign.
Open mike 15/04/2022
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Daily review 14/04/2022
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Open mike 14/04/2022
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Daily review 13/04/2022
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