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Date published: 10:20 am, April 13th, 2022 - 93 comments
What would our society, communities and lives look like in New Zealand if we weren’t so reliant on fossil fuels?
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Date published: 8:29 am, April 13th, 2022 - 66 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 13th, 2022 - 72 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 12th, 2022 - 22 comments
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Date published: 8:08 am, April 12th, 2022 - 122 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 12th, 2022 - 173 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 11th, 2022 - 16 comments
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Date published: 6:05 am, April 11th, 2022 - 87 comments
It’s time to act as if our lives depend on it.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 11th, 2022 - 94 comments
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Date published: 2:09 pm, April 10th, 2022 - 47 comments
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.
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Date published: 8:28 am, April 10th, 2022 - 31 comments
With a sense of regret for many of us this week Ashley Bloomfield announced his pending resignation as Director General of Health.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 10th, 2022 - 173 comments
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Date published: 10:21 am, April 9th, 2022 - 28 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 9th, 2022 - 190 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 8th, 2022 - 17 comments
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Date published: 8:14 am, April 8th, 2022 - 14 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 8th, 2022 - 152 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 7th, 2022 - 6 comments
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Date published: 12:56 pm, April 7th, 2022 - 151 comments
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.
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Date published: 7:26 am, April 7th, 2022 - 20 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 7th, 2022 - 125 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 6th, 2022 - 44 comments
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Date published: 8:49 am, April 6th, 2022 - 55 comments
That IPCC report telling it like it is. Ball is in our court.
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Date published: 8:04 am, April 6th, 2022 - 15 comments
You get to a point – and Ardern must be close – where the most you can do is hang on.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 6th, 2022 - 133 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 5th, 2022 - 21 comments
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Date published: 9:27 am, April 5th, 2022 - 77 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 5th, 2022 - 176 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 4th, 2022 - 9 comments
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Date published: 9:54 am, April 4th, 2022 - 44 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 4th, 2022 - 77 comments
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