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Open Mike 28/03/2026

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 28th, 2026 - 13 comments

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Shane Jones: Government isn’t Nostradamus

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Date published: 10:07 pm, March 27th, 2026 - 23 comments

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?

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Date published: 6:41 pm, March 27th, 2026 - 24 comments

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

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Date published: 12:36 pm, March 27th, 2026 - 23 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, March 27th, 2026 - 59 comments

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The Government wants to make workers more unsafe

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Date published: 1:43 pm, March 26th, 2026 - 7 comments

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

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Date published: 12:35 pm, March 26th, 2026 - 20 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, March 26th, 2026 - 19 comments

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Is the Government’s $50 a week a vote winner?

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Date published: 2:57 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 31 comments

The Government’s targeted fuel support is pork-barrelling.

Destroying Business 2025

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Date published: 1:22 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 6 comments

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

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Date published: 1:16 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 5 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, March 25th, 2026 - 31 comments

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Ciao, Brooke Van Velden

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Date published: 1:29 pm, March 24th, 2026 - 30 comments

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?

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Date published: 11:15 am, March 24th, 2026 - 23 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, March 24th, 2026 - 30 comments

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Winston Peters signals willingness to send military assets to assist USA

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Date published: 7:49 pm, March 23rd, 2026 - 24 comments

Is NZ going to join the Iran war?

Open Mike 23/03/2026

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 23rd, 2026 - 77 comments

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Nicola Willis signals higher pollutant fuel coming to New Zealand

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Date published: 7:21 pm, March 22nd, 2026 - 3 comments

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

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Date published: 5:16 pm, March 22nd, 2026 - 9 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, March 22nd, 2026 - 23 comments

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Neoliberalism is anathema to effective crisis management

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Date published: 5:04 pm, March 21st, 2026 - 24 comments

Don’t hold on to an old umbrella in a wuthering storm.

Open Mike 21/03/2026

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 21st, 2026 - 23 comments

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What We Can Do

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Date published: 6:50 pm, March 20th, 2026 - 30 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, March 20th, 2026 - 21 comments

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Our Willingness To Earn US Approval, Via China-Bashing

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Date published: 7:10 pm, March 19th, 2026 - 7 comments

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”

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Date published: 4:33 pm, March 19th, 2026 - 46 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, March 19th, 2026 - 55 comments

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Failure to lead – is New Zealand is walking into an energy shock?

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Date published: 3:36 pm, March 18th, 2026 - 10 comments

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be fired over the imperilment of the New Zealand economy by his government’s laissez-faire response to the coming energy shock.

Open Mike 18/03/2026

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 18th, 2026 - 47 comments

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Why scrapping Labour’s climate change policies has made the oil crisis worse

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Date published: 1:38 pm, March 17th, 2026 - 10 comments

Driven by ideology, this Government has worsened the country’s prospects to reduce oil dependance by axing policies that would have cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

Greenpeace on NZ’s Fuel Supply Resiliency Plan

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Date published: 6:15 am, March 17th, 2026 - 30 comments

“True resilience will not come from stockpiling more finite, fossil fuels, but from reducing our reliance on fossil fuels altogether.” – Greenpeace