Open mike 15/08/2020
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Daily review 14/08/2020
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The top seven things Covid has changed
Covid has fundamentally changed society for the better in surprising ways.
Joe Biden’s Four Surprising Vectors for Success
He’s old, boring, uninspiring, and offends no-one: surely he’ll fail miserably as President? But he has a stronger chance than any Democrat President since LBJ of getting very strong domestic reforms done.
Open mike 14/08/2020
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Daily review 13/08/2020
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TheY aRe onlY aSKing qUestiOns
Yesterday National suggested a wide based and interesting conspiracy theory involving the Government and the Ministry of Health and all of the Health Boards suppressing news of community spread of Covid 19 for political advantage while at the same time complaining that the Government should be consulting with them on decisions.
Open mike 13/08/2020
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Daily review 12/08/2020
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UMR Poll August 2020
The latest Rogue Poll™ is out. This time it’s UMR’s turn and Judith Collins is on the rise.
Will National politicise the new Covid outbreak? *
*Rhetorical question. Of course they will.
Biden/Harris
Joe Biden announces his VP pick.
Open mike 12/08/2020
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Well that is a bit shit. Auckland level 3. Rest of NZ level 2
Four cases of community transmission from the same family – presumably without an obvious cause. Lock down for 3 days in the Auckland super city area at level 3 starting noon Wednesday. Level 2 for everywhere else outside of Auckland. Allows time for contact tracing and a later decision once facts are known. Good response.
Daily review 11/08/2020
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Should the government replace sex data with gender (identity) data?
Stats NZ want to use gender rather than sex as the default for data collection. But they’ve neglected to ask women about that.
The strange tale of the Auckland Central selection and Merv from Manurewa
News has emerged that a senior National Party figure rang talkback radio and made derogatory comments about National’s only Sri Lankan candidate in an apparent attempt to reduce her chance of being selected as National’s Auckland Central candidate.
Why you should vote Labour this election
Four very good reasons why you should vote Labour in this election.
Open mike 11/08/2020
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Daily review 10/08/2020
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Vote No to Cannabis Reform
Ten reasons to vote against cannabis law reform this election.
Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government: Style over substance or a guiding light for progressive politics?
Critics have dismissed the Jacinda Ardern government as being one of style over substance. This is unfair given the challenges this government has faced and the policy achievements it has had. However, it is a government that has much work to do if it wins a second term. And its over-reliance on Jacinda as party leader is a huge strategic risk, especially when the governments front bench is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be lightweight.
IT doESN’t aDD up
For a few days now Gerry Brownlee has been peddling this dog whistle conspiracy campaign that the Government is hiding bad news about Covid and we should all be really concerned.
Covid recovery and bouncing forward
Central to the Transition movement from the outset has been the idea of resilience. Usually framed as the ability to ‘bounce back’, it is seen in the Transition movement as being better imagined as the capacity to ‘bounce forward’, i.e. to use it as the opportunity to move forward to something better. How then to ‘bounce forward’ from COVID-19 in such a way that we also move to a way of doing things consistent with the scale of the climate crisis?
Open mike 10/08/2020
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National’s list
National’s list has now been released and highlights selection problems that it has had this year.
NZ First is in trouble in Northland
More bad news for NZ First. It looks like their hope that Northland could provide a get out of jail free card is misplaced.
Open mike 09/08/2020
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July 2020 Roy Morgan Poll
The latest Roy Morgan poll is out.
Crusher?
Crushed!
Jacinda’s speech to the Labour campaign launch
Jacinda Ardern’s speech to the Labour 2020 campaign launch.
Open mike 08/08/2020
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Daily review 07/08/2020
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The return of John Key
In a sign of desperation National has trotted out John Key to campaign that the country’s success in containing Covid should be put to risk because of a misguided perception that it would be good for the economy.
James Shaw, comedian
A bit of shade, some Dad jokes, and the serious business of what the Greens have done.
Open mike 07/08/2020
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