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Daily review 24/07/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 24th, 2025 - 17 comments

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Sport Must Stand Up. Sport Must Lead. Sport Must Include Everyone.

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Date published: 4:48 pm, July 24th, 2025 - 67 comments

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

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Date published: 12:01 pm, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments

Winston Peters’ recent “sausage” insults distract From Regulatory Capture in our government. Opinion/analysis by Mountain Tui

So the Government has increased homelessness

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Date published: 11:20 am, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, July 24th, 2025 - 27 comments

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Daily review 23/07/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 23rd, 2025 - 2 comments

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The Time For The Left To Act Is Now

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Date published: 8:57 am, July 23rd, 2025 - 50 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, July 23rd, 2025 - 50 comments

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Daily review 22/07/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 22nd, 2025 - 2 comments

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Hey Federated Farmers climate change is real

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Date published: 10:22 am, July 22nd, 2025 - 9 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, July 22nd, 2025 - 58 comments

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Why is National so desperate for Labour to release policy?

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Date published: 7:09 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 23 comments

National Party Ministers have been goading Labour to share policies for a while now. Why?

Daily review 21/07/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 3 comments

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Do you want to protect NZ’s sensitive land and assets?

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Date published: 1:15 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 9 comments

You have 2 days more to submit on ACT’s Overseas Investment Act changes

What is the point of taxation?

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Date published: 6:05 am, July 21st, 2025 - 43 comments

Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.

Open Mike 21/07/25

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 21st, 2025 - 8 comments

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National raided $6,000,000,000 infrastructure & flood fund

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Date published: 7:47 pm, July 20th, 2025 - 25 comments

Tasman, Top of the South Island patiently waits after National raided $6 billion infrastructure fund

The left should unite on tax, fast

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Date published: 9:41 am, July 20th, 2025 - 39 comments

… before the election starts to get real.

Open Mike 20/07/25

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 20th, 2025 - 57 comments

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Do humans have to respect the limits to growth?

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Date published: 1:23 pm, July 19th, 2025 - 11 comments

we don’t have to, but we probably should.

Open Mike 19/07/25

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 19th, 2025 - 41 comments

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Daily review 18/07/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 18th, 2025 - 2 comments

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“I did my own research”!

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Date published: 8:08 am, July 18th, 2025 - 69 comments

“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!

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Date published: 7:18 am, July 18th, 2025 - 12 comments

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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Date published: 6:00 am, July 18th, 2025 - 74 comments

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Daily review 17/07/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 17th, 2025 - 2 comments

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GCSB & NZSIS warn ACT Bill risks NZ’s National Security

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Date published: 11:59 am, July 17th, 2025 - 5 comments

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

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Date published: 11:51 am, July 17th, 2025 - 19 comments

The incongruence of transgender fear

Open Mike 17/07/25

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 17th, 2025 - 31 comments

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Daily review 16/07/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 16th, 2025 - 10 comments

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Everybody is wrong except David Seymour *

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Date published: 12:25 pm, July 16th, 2025 - 23 comments

* according to Seymour when it comes to International and Domestic condemnation of his Regulatory Standards Bill.