Open Mike 05/06/2018
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Were Etu union delegates threatened at a select committee?
National MP Parmjeet Parmar has been accused of threatening to tell the employers of submitters to a Select Committee what they had said in evidence if they did not withdraw their statements.
Open Mike 04/06/2018
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Who Really is Judging the Poor?
Some conversations about poverty are harming those in need. Those conversations contribute to the stigma and shame experienced by struggling families, who are barely surviving, but still trying to maintain some dignity. As a result even those in need are differentiating between the deserving and undeserving poor.
Doofus of the week – June 3, 2018
Finalists this week are David Farrar for recklessly misrepresenting Labour’s view on the three strikes repeal proposal, Judith Collins for thinking a two year old photo used on the Standard was a current photo and evidence of the police being politicised and Paula Bennett for at the same time not knowing and knowing but being unable to do anything about the terrorising of state house tenants. And the winner is …
Open Mike 03/06/2018
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Steaming cow poo.
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth according to a Guardian headline.
Yeah. No it’s not.
Simon Bridges, the three strikes law and the Bill of Rights
National obviously desperately want to divert attention away from the Housing Corp methamphetamine fiasco. After five days of continuous bad news who can blame them.
Open Mike 02/06/2018
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Daily Review 01/06/2018
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Labour does not want to let them all out
Andrew Little has proposed the repeal of the irrational three strikes law. But signs are that National will not engage in a reasoned debate about what the law should be.
Reclaiming the Mountain
Central and local Government have announced new funding for projects to preserve and enhance the natural environment in Taranaki.
Open Mike 01/06/2018
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Daily Review 31/05/2018
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National tags parody account in Northcote by election tweet
The difference between running a professional well organised campaign and a chaotic shambles can be slight.
National’s strategy on the Housing Corp P fiasco
National is all over the place in its response to Peter Gluckman’s Housing Corp methamphetamine report with three different justifications being provided by three different senior MPs.
Open Mike 31/05/2018
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Daily Review 30/05/2018
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Where the f*ck is Simon Bridges?
An ongoing series where we try to work out what social media strategy Simon Bridges is following.
Strange Democracy.
Quietly mulling on the difference between foreign interference (malign) and influence (benign).
Gluckman: Methamphetamine policy was a crock
The Prime Minister’s chief science adviser Peter Gluckman has described the previous Government’s policy on methamphetamine in Housing Corp houses as hysterical and concluded that there has never been a documented case of someone getting sick from third-hand exposure to methamphetamine.
Open Mike 30/05/2018
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Daily Review 29/05/2018
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Draining the swamp
One Nation has made an appearance in Aotearoa New Zealand, complete with all the nuttiness of its Australian counterpart, some Donald Trump insanity and some support for the hard right in the United Kingdom.
Where the f*ck is Simon Bridges?
An ongoing series.
It’s Time for a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dairy Farming
Not just, ‘we’ve got to make the good outweigh the bad’. I mean: why should dairy farming exist here?
Open Mike 29/05/2018
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Pollwatch: Colmar Brunton 28/5/2018
Hot on the heels of Reid Research, TVNZ has also been doing post-budget polling, and this one paints a bit of a different picture.
Daily Review 28/05/2018
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Comrade Simon supports Nurses Strike
For the first time possibly ever a National leader has supported the right of the rank and file to engage in industrial action to improve their living conditions.
Bridges copies Bill Clinton on abortion
Simon Bridges has appropriated phrasing used by Bill Clinton in describing his position on abortion but made his personal view even more restrictive.
Where the f*ck is Simon Bridges?
An ongoing series.
Open Mike 28/05/2018
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Pollwatch: Reid Research, 27/05/2018
The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll is out, and it continues to be less than stellar news for the opposition, but also for New Zealand First.
Autonomy.
So women in ‘half’ of an island have bodily autonomy.
Doofus of the week – May 27, 2018
Lots of competition this week with Katie Hopkins preferring to be called a racist to being described as being on drugs, Judith Collins for fronting the most naff scandals in the last decade, and Simon Bridges for going on tour to strange places. But the real contest was between Paula Bennett and Gerry Brownlee …