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Date published: 11:40 am, March 20th, 2020 - 14 comments
Five days ago Mike Hosking was representing his paymasters with his reflection of their basic ignorance of history. Then demanding caution in dealing with covid-19. Yesterday he panicked for immediate action to close the borders which government did anyway later that day. It is just dangerous to give a public platform to a dithering moron who be at home in 1918. Perhaps he should read the pandemic plan?
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Date published: 9:57 am, March 20th, 2020 - 71 comments
There’s a world where, apparently, people shake hands with other people all day. I don’t know that world. I couldn’t tell you the last time I shook some-one’s hand. And I suspect those who inhabit a world of hand-shakers have as little insight to my world as I do theirs. But in “one world”…
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Date published: 7:26 am, March 20th, 2020 - 20 comments
Unite’s Joe Carolan has called for a rent, mortgage and bill freeze.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 20th, 2020 - 128 comments
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Date published: 5:25 pm, March 19th, 2020 - 52 comments
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Date published: 2:11 pm, March 19th, 2020 - 37 comments
As mainstream systems are forced to adapt to the new state of affairs in a covid world, what are the bigger picture changes that need to happen so that we are future-proofing our communities at the same time?
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 19th, 2020 - 180 comments
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Date published: 9:05 pm, March 18th, 2020 - 23 comments
One of Simon Bridges’ caucus supporters has raised the possibility of a leadership coup. Let’s hope not, people!
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 18th, 2020 - 40 comments
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Date published: 10:58 am, March 18th, 2020 - 9 comments
Biden at any cost? Is that the game?
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Date published: 8:22 am, March 18th, 2020 - 57 comments
Simon Bridges has been criticised for his relentless negativity towards the Government’s urgent Covid-19 budget response and for playing politics as usual at a time when unity is required.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 18th, 2020 - 56 comments
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Date published: 5:50 pm, March 17th, 2020 - 52 comments
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Date published: 4:27 pm, March 17th, 2020 - 24 comments
The Minister of Finance says that we are facing the worst of any of the scenarios that they had been preparing for. In response the government’s rescue package is bigger than anything New Zealand has ever seen.
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Date published: 2:01 pm, March 17th, 2020 - 156 comments
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the coalition Government will announce a multi-billion dollar economic package at 2pm today. Livestream details are in the post and live updates will be made as the announcement rolls out.
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Date published: 1:49 pm, March 17th, 2020 - 2 comments
As a programmer, I’ve had a lot of experience with working from home for work, last time was about 13 years ago. Yesterday we got shifted to working from home. The toolkit has changed a lot even in the last few years. What is going to be interesting for me is to see how companies disperse their employees out in the same way over this pandemic – that will be a real test of productivity.
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Date published: 7:52 am, March 17th, 2020 - 38 comments
The right, elements of which have thought the best thing to do to the state is weaken it that badly that they could then drown it in a bathtub, are rethinking and now realise that a well resourced, active and engaged State is actually a life saver.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 17th, 2020 - 79 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 16th, 2020 - 32 comments
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Date published: 10:51 am, March 16th, 2020 - 49 comments
An update from Labour on covid prevention.
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Date published: 10:11 am, March 16th, 2020 - 105 comments
It has been disclosed that Donald Trump has attempted to buy exclusive rights to a German vaccine in development. But only for the use of the American people. Meanwhile in New Zealand there is agreat anticipation about the Government’s announced package due to be released tomorrow.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 16th, 2020 - 109 comments
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Date published: 7:30 pm, March 15th, 2020 - 20 comments
Government has for the last decade been pushing for as many government services as possible to be primarily accessed digitally rather than face-to face. Funnily enough, the one public service they forgot to push to digital is themselves. Now’s the time Trevor.
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Date published: 8:34 am, March 15th, 2020 - 9 comments
Today marks the first anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque shooting.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 15th, 2020 - 2 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 15th, 2020 - 136 comments
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Date published: 11:08 pm, March 14th, 2020 - 103 comments
Juice Media on the essential facts about the spread of Covid-19. It concentrates on the United States, where personally I’m picking the US, by the end of the year, as being the biggest medico-political screw up world wide after Iran. Early wishful thinking and a lack of transparency cost lives. Pathetic bullshitting simply doesn’t help.
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Date published: 7:05 am, March 14th, 2020 - 100 comments
Idiot/Savant writes about empty houses and the homeless.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 14th, 2020 - 135 comments
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Date published: 8:54 am, March 13th, 2020 - 152 comments
With the world’s economy in turmoil and infection rates continuing to surge the responses of different countries to the crisis shows markedly different results. And the issue could be the determining issue of this year’s election.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 13th, 2020 - 134 comments
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