The approaching fuel crisis: what if we no longer needed so much petrol?
What would our society, communities and lives look like in New Zealand if we weren’t so reliant on fossil fuels?
Luxon’s strange Public Transport take
Yesterday Chris Luxon showed the sensitivity and sophistication of someone who owns seven properties and at one stage had 6.1 million Air New Zealand shares by stating that he believed that at least some public transport services should not be supported and that public transport needs to stand on its own feet.
Open mike 13/04/2022
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Daily review 12/04/2022
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Plant based foods
Worrying news has emerged that New Zealand officials sought along with other agricultural nations to remove references to the benefits of consuming plant based foods on climate change from the IPCC report summary.
Open mike 12/04/2022
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Daily review 11/04/2022
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Climate Action Mondays: after the IPCC report, what now?
It’s time to act as if our lives depend on it.
Open mike 11/04/2022
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Why trust in the media is declining
A recent study into New Zealand’s media suggests that trust in what the media says is declining and that views of what is good and bad media is more and more dependent on the participant’s world view.
Go well Ashley Bloomfield
With a sense of regret for many of us this week Ashley Bloomfield announced his pending resignation as Director General of Health.
Open mike 10/04/2022
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Grumpy mod note
Please read if you are commenting at The Standard.
Open mike 09/04/2022
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Daily review 08/04/2022
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Is Act buying social media followers?
Hot on the heels of news that Act has recently received a number of significant donations comes news that it may have spent some of these funds on buying social media followers following news that Seymour’s Instagram followers jumped from 23,800 to 72,600 in one day.
Open mike 08/04/2022
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Daily review 07/04/2022
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Greens call for rent freeze
The Green Party has published a reasonable plan to make renting more affordable for low income New Zealanders. There’s nothing extreme-communist-scary here, it’s well within the values of the NZ electorate.
Water and Money
If the 3 Waters reforms can survive its attacks and be implemented, a consequence will be that we are going to have a most enormous nationwide economic argument about the price of water and who pays for it all.
Open mike 07/04/2022
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Daily review 06/04/2022
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Last chance to see or finally acting as if our lives depend on it?
That IPCC report telling it like it is. Ball is in our court.
Change nothing
You get to a point – and Ardern must be close – where the most you can do is hang on.
Open mike 06/04/2022
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Daily review 05/04/2022
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Why in the middle of a pandemic an immediate change to Orange is magical thinking
National’s friends are in unison complaining that the Government should be announcing now when we will be back into Orange. But our exemplary performance compared to other nations suggests strongly that the Government should continue to respect the medical advice it is receiving.
Open mike 05/04/2022
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Daily review 04/04/2022
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Climate Action Mondays: slow fashion
It’s time to act as if our lives depend on it. Here are the things we can do and we can require government and business to do.
Open mike 04/04/2022
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3 Waters Reform Must Happen
If you’re out there in ZB land and believe that water management should be democratically elected, you won’t find respite here. Local Government has done a terrible job dealing with water and change is urgently needed.
National still has a culture problem
This week National found itself the centre of media suggesting that its treatment of women is still not acceptable. A couple of Young […]
Open mike 03/04/2022
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Open mike 02/04/2022
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Daily review 01/04/2022
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