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Date published: 11:32 am, October 15th, 2018 - 53 comments
New Zealand is now getting truckie protests about fuel prices reminiscent of the first term of the Helen Clark government. This is no doubt the start of many protests to come from truckie and consumer alike.
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Date published: 8:53 am, October 15th, 2018 - 107 comments
Duncan Garner has this morning revealed further leaked information from within National concerning Simon Bridges’ disastrous polling and indicating that he received a donation from a company with links to the Exclusive Brethren.
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Date published: 8:05 am, October 15th, 2018 - 44 comments
A new political party has emerged with what could be loosely described as a stunning website.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 15th, 2018 - 138 comments
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Date published: 12:58 pm, October 14th, 2018 - 11 comments
An odd detail or change was buried within the IPCC report that came out last week.
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Date published: 9:56 am, October 14th, 2018 - 96 comments
There has been some push back against the Government’s light rail proposal for Dominion Road from some unlikely sources. But they are concentrating on what is best for airport users, not what is best for the city as a whole.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 14th, 2018 - 266 comments
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Date published: 1:05 pm, October 13th, 2018 - 80 comments
“Kavanaugh” – the name lends itself to being enunciated with a certain pluminess, don’t you think?
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Date published: 9:11 am, October 13th, 2018 - 26 comments
After spending over a hundred thousand dollars on the inquiry into who leaked his travel information Simon Bridges now claims that he is no longer worried about who leaked his travel expense information.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 13th, 2018 - 185 comments
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Date published: 5:46 pm, October 12th, 2018 - 36 comments
Compensation for not getting to see someone in concert? $12 000. Compensation for being imprisoned in a big bloody compound and shot at by snipers if you go anywhere near the perimeter fence? Nothing. But…
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 12th, 2018 - 23 comments
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Date published: 9:07 am, October 12th, 2018 - 63 comments
Hurricane Michael is exactly the sort of weather event that climate change scientists predicted would occur because of climate change.
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Date published: 8:47 am, October 12th, 2018 - 32 comments
Voting papers are being delivered to parts of Auckland relating to the Entrust elections, to elect trustees to oversee the management of Vector. City Vision is standing a progressive group of candidates hoping to take power away from the current right wing dominated board.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 12th, 2018 - 111 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 11th, 2018 - 44 comments
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Date published: 5:10 pm, October 11th, 2018 - 7 comments
Information concerning a hui scheduled for October 19 and 20 at Auckland University to set out what an alternative and progressive trade strategy should look like.
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Date published: 8:11 am, October 11th, 2018 - 37 comments
Trevor Mallard has shut down one possible conclusion of National’s leak inquiry by conducting his own inquiry into his office which has concluded that the leak of Bridges’ travel information did not come from there.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 11th, 2018 - 294 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 10th, 2018 - 71 comments
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Date published: 7:56 am, October 10th, 2018 - 125 comments
National has launched a series of public meetings to discuss a major issue. Not child poverty or climate change or how badly wrong Steven Joyce’s $11.5 billion hole claim was, but guns.
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Date published: 7:29 am, October 10th, 2018 - 36 comments
There is a long a proud history of musicians adding their weight to the Democratic cause in the United States, but Taylor Swift’s recent action is about as on-message as you can get.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 10th, 2018 - 381 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 9th, 2018 - 37 comments
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Date published: 1:22 pm, October 9th, 2018 - 80 comments
Remember the $11.5 billion hole that Stephen Joyce and National said Labour was going to leave the country with? Well the 2017/18 financial books have been completed and released and the Government’s surplus was $2.4 billion greater than forecast.
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Date published: 12:57 pm, October 9th, 2018 - 185 comments
We know the real names of the Russian spies who bungled the Salisbury novichok poisoning. Will it make a difference to the Kremlin’s plans?
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Date published: 12:24 pm, October 9th, 2018 - 17 comments
An antidote to half truths, misleading statements and outright lies.
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Date published: 10:41 am, October 9th, 2018 - 64 comments
On the day that the IPCC has confirmed that the world is running out of time to do something to try and preserve what we have National and associated entities have complained that fuel prices are too high.
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Date published: 7:21 am, October 9th, 2018 - 139 comments
Get ready, according to the AA, for petrol at $3 a liter for Christmas.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 9th, 2018 - 141 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 8th, 2018 - 37 comments
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