Open Mike 25/07/25
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Daily review 24/07/2025
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Sport Must Stand Up. Sport Must Lead. Sport Must Include Everyone.
Guest post from Louisa Wall. The government’s decision to scrap Sport New Zealand’s transgender inclusion guidelines for community sport is not leadership. It is exclusion by neglect.
NZ Government is Captured
Winston Peters’ recent “sausage” insults distract From Regulatory Capture in our government. Opinion/analysis by Mountain Tui
So the Government has increased homelessness
For some time now National has been crowing about how they have solved the emergency housing problem in Aotearoa. But a recent report suggests that their policies have cause a surge in the number of homeless kiwis.
Open Mike 24/07/25
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Daily review 23/07/2025
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The Time For The Left To Act Is Now
None of National’s policies are working. But the time of Labour’s policy vacuum needs to be over. It’s time to make their mark and take Luxon front on and win.
Open Mike 23/07/25
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Daily review 22/07/2025
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Hey Federated Farmers climate change is real
The Commerce Commission has dismissed Federated Farmers’ claim that banks offering lower interest rates to clients who meet greenhouse gas emission targets are engaging in cartel type behavior.
Open Mike 22/07/25
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Why is National so desperate for Labour to release policy?
National Party Ministers have been goading Labour to share policies for a while now. Why?
Daily review 21/07/2025
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Do you want to protect NZ’s sensitive land and assets?
You have 2 days more to submit on ACT’s Overseas Investment Act changes
What is the point of taxation?
Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.
Open Mike 21/07/25
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National raided $6,000,000,000 infrastructure & flood fund
Tasman, Top of the South Island patiently waits after National raided $6 billion infrastructure fund
The left should unite on tax, fast
… before the election starts to get real.
Open Mike 20/07/25
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Do humans have to respect the limits to growth?
we don’t have to, but we probably should.
Open Mike 19/07/25
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Daily review 18/07/2025
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“I did my own research”!
“I did my own research”!
“I did my own research”? No. You didn’t. You can’t!
The ultimate Fuck you, to your neighbours, the community and the environment. Private helicopters!
Again, we were woken up by a bunch of hoodrats drifting on the intersection by our house. Great clouds of smoke and lots of noise. As you do at three o clock in the morning, my brain started tying this together with recent articles about private helicopters in urban areas, and other forms of antisocial “Fuck You’s” to the rest of us.
Open Mike 18/07/25
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Daily review 17/07/2025
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GCSB & NZSIS warn ACT Bill risks NZ’s National Security
Judith Collins was briefed in March 2025 that David Seymour and Bryce Wilkinson’s proposal is incompatible with safeguarding the country from espionage, sabotage and terrorism.
You Can’t Kill A Rainbow
The incongruence of transgender fear
Open Mike 17/07/25
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Daily review 16/07/2025
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Everybody is wrong except David Seymour *
* according to Seymour when it comes to International and Domestic condemnation of his Regulatory Standards Bill.
Open Mike 16/07/25
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Daily review 15/07/2025
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China is not a threat to Regional Peace
The real threat to peace in our region does not stem from China, but from a “China threat” narrative—promoted by the United States to rally other nations behind its China containment agenda.
Climate Change and Bumper Sticker Politics
Christopher Luxon has engaged in a classic example of bumper sticker politics by blaming Labour for excessive power prices, not the structure of the power sector. And he has completely ignored the imperitave action that climate change demands the country takes.