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Date published: 7:00 am, March 27th, 2019 - 174 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 26th, 2019 - 58 comments
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Date published: 7:54 am, March 26th, 2019 - 564 comments
The Free Speech coalition has attacked the Chief Censor’s decision to rule the Christchurch Mosque killer’s manifesto as objectionable as an attack on free speech. But the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties has characterised the Censor’s decision as being entirely conventional.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 26th, 2019 - 86 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 25th, 2019 - 39 comments
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Date published: 2:41 pm, March 25th, 2019 - 46 comments
The most important comment in the Tax Working Group’s Final Report is that even the reasonably comprehensive capital gains tax proposed is likely to have only a minor impact on addressing inequality — what is needed is a more progressive income tax system that lifts the top marginal tax rate
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Date published: 10:15 am, March 25th, 2019 - 138 comments
The Mueller report apparently clears Donald Trump of collusion. However, charges of obstruction of justice against his team remain possible.
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Date published: 9:29 am, March 25th, 2019 - 60 comments
Following the Christchurch Mosque murders there are strong calls for an inquiry into the SIS. But should it be given more power or should it be reformed to remove a pretty clear blind spot.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 25th, 2019 - 265 comments
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Date published: 10:11 am, March 24th, 2019 - 79 comments
The Government and some major corporations have called for changes to Facebook in the way it operates.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 24th, 2019 - 108 comments
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Date published: 6:57 am, March 24th, 2019 - 36 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: 2:07 pm, March 23rd, 2019 - 101 comments
The terrorist’s published writing has been banned with immediate effect. This is a very good thing.
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Date published: 10:34 am, March 23rd, 2019 - 120 comments
The Mueller report has dropped. The next few days are going to be crucial for the Trump presidency.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 23rd, 2019 - 232 comments
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Date published: 3:23 pm, March 22nd, 2019 - 43 comments
Submissions for the final report on the Electricity Price Review closed today at noon. My recent experience with Genesis Energy reveals pricing by power company majors not only rips customers off, but is immoral. The initial report of the EPR is unlikely to address this issue.
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Date published: 8:43 am, March 22nd, 2019 - 128 comments
Now that I’ve had time to look through what has been implemented and what is proposed to happen with changes to gun laws and think about it. I’m almost satisfied. Since that so seldom happens that I suspect a gotcha, I’m now going to keep debugging until I am sure that it is actually as good as it looks.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 22nd, 2019 - 286 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 21st, 2019 - 71 comments
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Date published: 4:39 pm, March 21st, 2019 - 80 comments
Jacinda Ardern has announced an effective ban by an order in council on the current sales of all military-style semi-automatic weapons and all assault rifles. There will be legislation passed to remove them from the hands of the public including a buyback and prison terms for possession. Not quite far enough yet. (Updated as I see other details)
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 21st, 2019 - 251 comments
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Date published: 5:35 am, March 21st, 2019 - 185 comments
Passing stringent gun controls is far from a knee-jerk reaction to the Christchurch massacre – our politicians of all stripes have procrastinated over this ever since the 1990 Aramoana massacre. We already have the 13 recommendations of the 2017 Law & Order committee that were rejected. Let us at the very least now accept those.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 20th, 2019 - 54 comments
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Date published: 12:08 pm, March 20th, 2019 - 30 comments
Westland Dairy has done a deal to sell out to Yili industrial Group of Mongolia. This company is the third largest dairy company in New Zealand.
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Date published: 9:20 am, March 20th, 2019 - 205 comments
Jacinda Ardern has shown over the past week that she is one of the country’s best leaders.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 20th, 2019 - 335 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 19th, 2019 - 33 comments
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Date published: 10:51 am, March 19th, 2019 - 76 comments
National has been caught out in what is euphemistically called a misspeak about when it took its odious anti UN Migration pact petition down from its website. It said it was weeks before the Christchurch murders but it appears the petition was still live after the event.
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Date published: 8:09 am, March 19th, 2019 - 137 comments
Mike Hosking has delivered an analysis of the Mosque murders that omits saying the massacre occurred in a mosque or that all the victims were of the Muslim faith or that the terrorist was a right wing extremist.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 19th, 2019 - 174 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 18th, 2019 - 60 comments
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