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Date published: 7:49 am, November 9th, 2021 - 114 comments
Well paint me red and call me Joseph Stalin. Cuba has not only developed its own Covid vaccines but it has vaccinated pretty well all of its people and driven back a Covid Delta outbreak that was threatening the island.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 9th, 2021 - 132 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 8th, 2021 - 45 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 8th, 2021 - 242 comments
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Date published: 9:52 am, November 7th, 2021 - 36 comments
Southland Mayor Gary Tong has justified felling a forest to construct a coal mine by saying “[w]e all want to make a cleaner, greener planet, but we can’t do it in five minutes.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 7th, 2021 - 250 comments
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Date published: 1:46 pm, November 6th, 2021 - 76 comments
The text of Jacinda Ardern’s speech delivered today to the Labour Conference.
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Date published: 8:04 am, November 6th, 2021 - 50 comments
Labour is this year holding its Conference on line. There will be some attention on a proposal to allow a supermajority of Caucus to avoid members and affiliates from having a say in a future Parliamentary leader.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 6th, 2021 - 296 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 5th, 2021 - 51 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 5th, 2021 - 263 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 4th, 2021 - 56 comments
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Date published: 12:30 pm, November 4th, 2021 - 70 comments
“We will soon be required to face the question, ‘After Elizabeth — what next?’,” Peter Hamilton wrote in his just published memoir, New Moons for Sam. He says it would be completely inappropriate for Elizabeth’s son Charles or his heir, William, to become Aotearoa’s next head of state. A head of state elected by 2/3rds of Parliament perhaps?
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Date published: 9:06 am, November 4th, 2021 - 7 comments
Beyond the NGO emotion and singing and joyous arm waving, country leaders at COP 26 actually have to achieve stuff this week.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 4th, 2021 - 195 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 3rd, 2021 - 32 comments
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Date published: 12:31 pm, November 3rd, 2021 - 43 comments
The story of New Zealand’s most polluted lake is the same story running through all of New Zealand society. We treat nature as an after thought that we can fix when things go wrong, even when we can’t. What if we told a different story?
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Date published: 8:43 am, November 3rd, 2021 - 22 comments
With in-person shopping about to re-start in Auckland next week, this is the best moment we will have to reinvent Auckland: one customer at a time.
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Date published: 8:37 am, November 3rd, 2021 - 8 comments
China, which has previously successfully suppressed the Covid virus, is struggling with a delta outbreak. And questions are being asked if suppression is still viable.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 3rd, 2021 - 154 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 2nd, 2021 - 9 comments
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Date published: 10:02 am, November 2nd, 2021 - 206 comments
Increasing levels of angst at the current lockdown can be related to privilege.
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Date published: 10:00 am, November 2nd, 2021 - 30 comments
Climate solutions are coming from Indigenous peoples and other system thinkers who are deeply connected with nature, not the neoliberal diehards who treat nature as a grab bag of resources to be manipulated.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 2nd, 2021 - 104 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 1st, 2021 - 25 comments
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Date published: 12:02 pm, November 1st, 2021 - 39 comments
The show is now on for Conference of Parties 26 (COP 26), where countries show each other how they will achieve the Paris Agreement climate goals. How will we do? Set in Glasgow, it will bring together negotiators from nearly every country on earth to assess progress, and to determine the scale of sacrifice we’re […]
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 1st, 2021 - 177 comments
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Date published: 10:43 am, October 31st, 2021 - 56 comments
National aligned C&R has shown how bad it is at running elections by running an election where less than one in ten eligible people voted.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 31st, 2021 - 145 comments
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Date published: 10:48 am, October 30th, 2021 - 185 comments
Matt Nippert’s in depth article in the Herald this morning provides a well researched deep insight into the Government’s vaccine roll out. And as it progresses the New Zealand response places us mid table and improving in the OECD vaccination comparison and gives us some hope that the Delta outbreak may be controlled.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 30th, 2021 - 85 comments
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