Open Mike 02/04/2026
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Open Mike 01/04/2026
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“The future of everything is in New Zealand-made energy”
This is the kind of Just Transition story that turns us in the right direction.
Open Mike 31/03/2026
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The oil crisis: what we should be doing now
Responses to the government’s National Fuel Plan.
Open Mike 30/03/2026
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David Seymour wants to snuff out bottlenecks and barriers to our response to global fuel uncertainty
David Seymour is supplying misleading ideas on how to boost our fuel resilience.
Open Mike 29/03/2026
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Wise Response: What can I do in response to the Fuel Supply Crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand?
In the tradition of Community Mutual Aid, Wise Response have published When the Trucks Stop: Mutual Aid Arrangements for a Fuel-Constrained New Zealand
Open Mike 28/03/2026
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Shane Jones: Government isn’t Nostradamus
Shane Jones appeals for understanding for the Coalition, but did he extend any to others?
Why did NZ First cancel country’s public diesel reserves?
NZ First have been busy sowing disinformation. So why don’t they take responsibility for cancelling a decision to stock public diesel reserves and increase duration?
The Government’s National Fuel Plan
Nicola Willis and Shane Jones present the details in the current plan for the Hormz oill crisis.
Open Mike 27/03/2026
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The Government wants to make workers more unsafe
Stand with Pike representatives have submitted to the Government that its proposed changes to worker safety laws will make people less safe at work.
Keep calm and screw it up later – current government policy on fuel
Officials have been doing private, media excluded, webinars with selected businesses. That seems pretty dodgy while our diesel stocks look like they will run out in a few weeks. Rather than (maybe) tomorrow, the government should have been rationing the unproductive Remuera tractors weeks ago.
Open Mike 26/03/2026
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Is the Government’s $50 a week a vote winner?
The Government’s targeted fuel support is pork-barrelling.
Destroying Business 2025
This government has an appalling record of large scale business closures, which continue to damage the careers of thousands of New Zealand workers.
Cash for Access: $8000 for National Party Cabinet, $10000 for PM
National is fundraising and for $10,000 you can buy access to sit with the PM
Open Mike 25/03/2026
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Ciao, Brooke Van Velden
ACT Deputy Leader Brooke van Velden announced her resignation today. What did she achieve during her tenure? And how will history remember her?
Why does this Government hate poor people?
The Government will today announce its response to increasing pressure on household budgets cause by the oil crisis. And it seems inevitable that poor people who are not working will be excluded from its effect.
Open Mike 24/03/2026
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Winston Peters signals willingness to send military assets to assist USA
Is NZ going to join the Iran war?
Open Mike 23/03/2026
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Nicola Willis signals higher pollutant fuel coming to New Zealand
As fuel crisis continues, National continues to hesitate and “analyse”. Today Willis denied she was not taking it seriously but also said her first port of call was to increase the range of fuels available for import into the country
We owe a great debt to Grant Robertson
Today I learned, we owe a great debt to Grant Roberston and just wanted to say thanks
Open Mike 22/03/2026
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Neoliberalism is anathema to effective crisis management
Don’t hold on to an old umbrella in a wuthering storm.
Open Mike 21/03/2026
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What We Can Do
In absence of a concrete leadership plan from this government to address the impending oil supply crisis, this post is for us to simply note down what actions we are taking ourselves.
Open Mike 20/03/2026
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Our Willingness To Earn US Approval, Via China-Bashing
The Chinese Embassy is right. The recent joint statement by Australia and New Zealand condemning China’s actions in the South China Sea reads like a relic from a bygone colonial era.
The oil crisis: “We live in challenging times”
The government has shifted position and is now directly talking about the need to plan and prepare for a potential crisis and doing so for the worst case scenario.
Open Mike 19/03/2026
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