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Date published: 6:00 am, November 4th, 2025 - 43 comments
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Date published: 10:51 pm, November 3rd, 2025 - 52 comments
As measles cases increase, National and ACT have chosen to come over the top of health officials and schools exercising caution.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 3rd, 2025 - 19 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 3rd, 2025 - 29 comments
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Date published: 12:15 pm, November 2nd, 2025 - 90 comments
Ryan Bridges fawns over Tend’s Telehealth corporate model which is subsidised by taxpayers, rewards private equity investors, and costs about $80 per consult
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 2nd, 2025 - 5 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 1st, 2025 - 43 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 31st, 2025 - 9 comments
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Date published: 2:40 pm, October 31st, 2025 - 22 comments
Like the Americans, maybe we should re-name our Ministry of Defence as the Ministry of War. The frigates New Zealand wants to buy can carry long-range Tomahawk Cruise missiles, with lethality so beloved by Judith Collins.
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Date published: 10:17 am, October 31st, 2025 - 24 comments
Individual State Schools face the prospect of hostile takeover by groups that may wish to change dramatically the way that the school is run. And Kelston Boys High School is a test case for how the process may work.
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Date published: 8:54 am, October 31st, 2025 - 49 comments
The vast majority of Fonterra shareholders have agreed to sell all its consumer brands to Lactalis, and it’s an economic crime against New Zealand.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 31st, 2025 - 12 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 30th, 2025 - 6 comments
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Date published: 10:06 am, October 30th, 2025 - 140 comments
The usual voices have publicly attacked Labour’s proposed Capital Gains Tax using arguments that do not stack up.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 30th, 2025 - 32 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 29th, 2025 - 9 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 29th, 2025 - 22 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 28th, 2025 - 3 comments
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Date published: 10:35 am, October 28th, 2025 - 46 comments
Today’s leak of Labour’s tax policy is unsurprising. The later Robertson and long-term Parker views are lost. And this position is at odds with much of the thinking in the Labour Party.
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Date published: 8:13 am, October 28th, 2025 - 151 comments
Labour’s Capital Gains Tax has been released in less than an optimal manner. And the policy is more modest than some would have liked.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 28th, 2025 - 25 comments
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Date published: 12:25 pm, October 27th, 2025 - 12 comments
Christopher Luxon successfully contesting his Auckland Council Rates bill will reinforce a strong impression that he is more concerned with personal wealth than the collective good.
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Date published: 6:06 am, October 27th, 2025 - 17 comments
On this Labour Day, a massive shout out to all the workers in Southland, Otago and other areas affected by the storms last week. Paid and volunteer, obvious and those in the background doing support for the frontline workers.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 27th, 2025 - 4 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 26th, 2025 - 33 comments
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Date published: 9:40 am, October 25th, 2025 - 23 comments
National has announced it will be spending nearly three times as much on Roads of National Significance as it campaigned on and has justified dubious investment decisions by changing how benefits are calculated.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 25th, 2025 - 11 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 24th, 2025 - 3 comments
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Date published: 4:04 pm, October 24th, 2025 - 90 comments
Lauded at the CIA and lectured at the Department of War, Judith Collins last week got her marching orders – prepare New Zealanders to join the next US war against China.
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Date published: 2:05 pm, October 24th, 2025 - 11 comments
Burr unironically asks: “Politics or pay – what’s really behind the mega strike?” without understanding all action is political, and that unions are made up of individual workers who vote
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 24th, 2025 - 30 comments
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