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Date published: 7:56 am, November 19th, 2017 - 8 comments
Robert Peston in the Spectator has analysed the social media performance of the two big parties in the United Kingdom and has concluded that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour had a significant advantage over Theresa May’s conservatives.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 19th, 2017 - 56 comments
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Date published: 7:36 am, November 18th, 2017 - 298 comments
The Australian Government has this week been attempting to undermine Jacinda Ardern’s humanitarian request that the refugees on Nauru Island should be treated humanely.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 18th, 2017 - 134 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 17th, 2017 - 29 comments
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Date published: 1:23 pm, November 17th, 2017 - 44 comments
RadioNZ seems to be diversifying its pool of political commentators.
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Date published: 8:47 am, November 17th, 2017 - 1 comment
Writer Sarah Wilson blogged about her experience of the recent Nethui event, looking at Nethui itself, corporate control and the internet, safety for kids, sex worker access to the net, disability access, the importance of digital inclusion and literacy, and the social/cultural consequences of the internet.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 17th, 2017 - 107 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 16th, 2017 - 45 comments
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Date published: 9:34 am, November 16th, 2017 - 223 comments
“two multinational companies are demanding the removal of long-standing terms and conditions in the collective agreement.”
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Date published: 7:30 am, November 16th, 2017 - 41 comments
There are major similarities between Helen Clark’s decision to accept into New Zealand refugees from the Tampa boat and Jacinda Ardern’s pushing for New Zealand to accept refugees based on Manus Island.
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Date published: 7:20 am, November 16th, 2017 - 17 comments
Green backbenchers Chlöe Swarbrick and Golriz Ghahraman just gave their maiden speeches recently.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 16th, 2017 - 179 comments
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Date published: 10:30 pm, November 15th, 2017 - 338 comments
What’s with the academic panic epidemic about China? Two in our media in the same week, referencing each other with vague warnings about the Chinese bogey. It’s not quite Lionel Terry in Haining Street again; more likely in my view a case of singing to someones else’s geopolitical tune. No prizes for guessing whose.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 15th, 2017 - 72 comments
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Date published: 12:18 pm, November 15th, 2017 - 21 comments
Australian electors have voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing same sex marriages.
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Date published: 7:45 am, November 15th, 2017 - 33 comments
A guest post by Christine Rose on Fishing Minister Stuart Nash’s strange decision to delay the implementation of video surveillance on fishing ships and the implications for endangered Maui’s dolphins.
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Date published: 6:33 am, November 15th, 2017 - 69 comments
What does it mean to look beyond capitalism? We do not yet know what it will look like because we have not yet ventured out from our caves.
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Date published: 6:06 am, November 15th, 2017 - 7 comments
Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn looks at the Paid Parental Leave Bill and how National are trying to wreck it.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 15th, 2017 - 133 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 14th, 2017 - 86 comments
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Date published: 8:56 am, November 14th, 2017 - 54 comments
United Future has announced that it will be wound up.
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Date published: 8:27 am, November 14th, 2017 - 34 comments
One of the things that I like about the Horizon poll is that it is unashamedly qualitative and highlights data beyond what is required for idiot talking heads needing a soundbite. Horizon breaks down some of the demographics to look at who is giving the government their honeymoon.
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Date published: 7:39 am, November 14th, 2017 - 40 comments
TVNZ’s board has decided to respond to a massive plunge in profitability by paying it chief executive a bigger salary package and a large bonus.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 14th, 2017 - 284 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 13th, 2017 - 22 comments
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Date published: 4:37 pm, November 13th, 2017 - 22 comments
Greg O’Connor talks about how his time with police led him to Labour.
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Date published: 12:33 pm, November 13th, 2017 - 150 comments
The Green Party will vote against the TPPA.
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Date published: 12:31 pm, November 13th, 2017 - 29 comments
US democratic activists have conducted a number of reviews on what went wrong at the last election. The conclusions they have reached could helpfully inform New Zealand political activists on what to do in 2020.
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Date published: 9:23 am, November 13th, 2017 - 124 comments
Fortunately the TPP is still the dead walking. Now that the immediate rush for ‘momentum’ is over (a scam phrase), it is time to do some real analysis of the project. This government, if it wants to convince its own supporters to support it, needs to discard that hucksterism fostered by the John Key government. Because to me TPP is a still a crock.
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Date published: 8:16 am, November 13th, 2017 - 67 comments
Jacinda Ardern has publicly criticised Donald Trump for idiot treating and Malcolm Turnbull for unacceptable handling of the Manus crisis.
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