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Date published: 9:58 am, February 16th, 2019 - 26 comments
Matt Blomfield has obtained judgment in his long running defamation case against Cameron Slater.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 16th, 2019 - 192 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 15th, 2019 - 42 comments
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Date published: 12:35 pm, February 15th, 2019 - 127 comments
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Date published: 11:45 am, February 15th, 2019 - 29 comments
Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage has ended the policy of tenure review, under which large tracts of land were privatised and onsold for huge profits and sensitive ecological areas wrecked.
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Date published: 8:15 pm, February 14th, 2019 - 125 comments
Today in distractions: David Carter is covering for Simon Bridges’ polling results by upsetting the whole idea of non-partisan accountability of the Government to Parliament in select comittees, I give some free advice to the National Party comms team knowing they won’t pull it off, and Mallard has lost patience with non-answers
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 14th, 2019 - 35 comments
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Date published: 8:30 am, February 14th, 2019 - 5 comments
There’s trouble on the horizon in Bouganville with its government proposing significant changes to its mining law to allow wide scale mining on the island.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 14th, 2019 - 176 comments
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Date published: 9:26 pm, February 13th, 2019 - 115 comments
National Party in dick pick SHOCKER!!!
Yes, Simple Simon reveals his saucy side as he SHOWS US HIS SAUSAGE.
But is anyone biting?
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 13th, 2019 - 26 comments
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Date published: 1:47 pm, February 13th, 2019 - 66 comments
Spark wants Huawei’s 5G technology because its the best and the cheapest. The GCSB spooks don’t want us to have it because 5Eyes and because the US has yanked their chain. The Prime Minister says no decision has been made – the media and the world think it is a goneburger. We should support New Zealand’s Spark, not US corporate interests.
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Date published: 11:11 am, February 13th, 2019 - 208 comments
National has decided to play politics and sabotaged today’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee meeting.
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Date published: 8:00 am, February 13th, 2019 - 25 comments
Deep in the perpetually joyous realm you inhabit, could you pop over and have a chat to St Francis? I am pretty sure that your spirit of spreading love throughout humanity is so necessary that if you did not exist we would have to invent you. But the speed and volume of the […]
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Date published: 7:39 am, February 13th, 2019 - 44 comments
National’s message discipline on support for Leader Simon Bridges is strangely missing.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 13th, 2019 - 52 comments
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Date published: 10:12 pm, February 12th, 2019 - 18 comments
Kia ora koutou readers, and welcome back to the first Pollwatch of 2019, and as our official Worst News™ will tell you, (okay, maybe that’s my opinion of their recent coverage rather than an official thing) it’s a doozy. Part of the reason I started modelling elections probabilistically myself is that looking at just the […]
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 12th, 2019 - 50 comments
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Date published: 10:34 am, February 12th, 2019 - 130 comments
So, it turns out Simon’s a dud. What do the Tories do about it? And can Judith Collins really make a difference?
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Date published: 10:00 am, February 12th, 2019 - 32 comments
In my youth back in the late 1970s and early 80s, I did a BSc in Earth Sciences. I learned that our human framework of decades and centuries was but a blink of an eye to nature. Our period, that blink in time, is fast fading.
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Date published: 7:38 am, February 12th, 2019 - 44 comments
The final chapter of the Saudi Sheepgate saga has now been written with David Parker pulling the pin on the deal and saving the country $1 million.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 12th, 2019 - 84 comments
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Date published: 6:04 pm, February 11th, 2019 - 248 comments
The latest Reid Research poll is disastrous for National.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 11th, 2019 - 22 comments
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Date published: 2:40 pm, February 11th, 2019 - 27 comments
Simon Bridges’ twitter account has been tweeting about unusual subjects lately.
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Date published: 8:01 am, February 11th, 2019 - 195 comments
No friends National’s sock puppet party has now been announced.
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Date published: 7:29 am, February 11th, 2019 - 182 comments
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Date published: 8:19 am, February 10th, 2019 - 119 comments
Jami-Lee Ross has implied that Simon Bridges is being hypocritical in criticising a Government review into mental health.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 10th, 2019 - 102 comments
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Date published: 6:57 am, February 10th, 2019 - 178 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: 10:57 am, February 9th, 2019 - 15 comments
Actor Albert Finney has died. His break out role as an angry young man railing against stultifying orthodoxy at the start of the sixties may be the greatest debut in film history.
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