Miners having a whale of a time
Ironsands Offshore Mining Ltd allowed to drill and extract bulk samples from the West Coast North Island Marine Mammal Sanctuary
Open Mike 13/07/2018
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Daily Review 12/07/2018
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Nurses deserve our support
Perhaps the Labour-led coalition might choose to reflect on it priorities – the sufficient funding of essential public services or buying billion-dollar war machines from the Donald Trump regime.
Open Mike 12/07/2018
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There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech
There’s never been Free Speech and that’s not actually much of a problem according to Te Reo Putake, who is no stranger to the downside of Saying Things.
Daily Review 11/07/2018
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Free Speech.
It’s a principle.
The free speech coalition that is actually quite expensive
The Free Speech coalition, formed to protect freedom of speech for the far right, has amongst its members some whose views on what freedom of speech actually is are unusual.
Unparliamentary Language
“His brain could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides”
Open Mike 11/07/2018
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Daily Review 10/07/2018
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Cake makers and fascists
A Warkworth cake maker has refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. The situation raises the question should she be allowed to discriminate against others on the grounds that she is exercising her rights of religious belief.
Nicky Wagner’s “You are a bitch” redacted
Labour MP Dr. Deborah Russell is to take a closer look at why an insult hurled against her in Parliament by National Ltd™ List MP Nicky Wagner has been redacted from Hansard.
Open Mike 10/07/2018
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Daily Review 09/07/2018
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Topped
The Board of The Opportunities Party (TOP) has decided to request that the Electoral Commission cancel TOP’s registration as a political party
The trade war
The speed of the growing trade war between the United States and China will hit New Zealand. Our long term diplomatic arc, such […]
Dotcom loses in the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has released its decision in the Kim Dotcom extradition case. The case has had a lot of resources thrown […]
Open Mike 09/07/2018
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Progress.
I don’t pay much attention to news channels these days, and realise this will have been all over the place in the shape of headlines and lead stories. So I’m sorry for simply echoing that which is already being amplified, but hey…
The extent of the right to free speech
Lauren Southern’s cancelled lecture has caused some debate about what freedom of speech is, is it absolute, and if not where is the line to be drawn?
Open Mike 08/07/2018
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Smile!
The extent and limits of current politics.
Open Mike 07/07/2018
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Daily Review 06/07/2018
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Novichok II
And then there was five.
Far right Canadian activist wants to come to New Zealand to insult local communities
Far right journalist Lauren Southern wants to come to New Zealand to give a speech which will no doubt insult various communities. Should we let her in?
Russell McVeagh
Dame Margaret Beazley has concluded in her report into Russell McVeagh, New Zealand’s Goldman Sachs, that it has serious problems including instances of excessive drinking and in some instances crude, drunken, and sexually inappropriate behaviour, a failure of governance and pockets of bullying.
Open Mike 06/07/2018
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Daily Review 05/07/2018
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Apparently Labour was to blame for the global financial crisis
These sorts of debates do my head in. Essentially because they are so removed from reality that anyone with any sense would know […]
Open Mike 05/07/2018
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Daily Review 04/07/2018
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US Democrats plan to start civil war today *
* according to Alex Jones on Infowars.
Blogs and the Political Establishment
Being in the thick of student politics in the mid 2000s, I was around just at the very beginning of social media.