Open mike 14/06/2025
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Daily review 13/06/2025
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Open mike 13/06/2025
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Daily review 12/06/2025
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Cecilia Robinson’s Tend Health Win
For-profit healthcare continues its acceleration under National as second largest private healthcare provider in Australia shuts down
The other Jacinda Book
Shortly after the release of Jacinda Ardern’s autobiography comes news of the release of a new biography for which the funding of and motivation for are not clear.
Open mike 12/06/2025
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Daily review 11/06/2025
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Open mike 11/06/2025
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Daily review 10/06/2025
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The Thunberg dilemma
If the Madleen activism was largely symbolic, did it work?
Open mike 10/06/2025
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Daily review 09/06/2025
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Open mike 09/06/2025
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The Auckland Mayoralty
With National aligned Desley Simpson ruling herself out of the Mayoralty race and pledging support for Wayne Brown Auckland’s mayoral contest looks like it will be a two way battle between Brown and Kerrin Leoni.
Open mike 08/06/2025
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Trump and Musk: One Big Beautiful Break-up
The world’s richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: does this mark the beginning of the […]
Homelessness up by 58% in Auckland
$250mn in emergency housing “savings” a year under National, while government increases corrections budget to ~$2b a year, and will surpass NZ’s ”moral and fiscal prison failure prison rate” by 2026
Trump vs Musk
Two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, or a man using his power to speak edifying and crystal clear truth.
Open mike 07/06/2025
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Daily review 06/06/2025
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Meta Ardern
This is about what’s good and what works and why.
Open mike 06/06/2025
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Daily review 05/06/2025
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The trouble with using AI bots
After David Seymour’s claim that 99.5% of submissions against his Regulatory Standards Bill were generated by AI bots it is relevant to review the time that he was implicated in the purchase of Russian sex bots to bolster his Instagram following.
The Three Wakas of the Coalition of Coxes
Once viewed through the right lens, the politics of the Coalition makes a lot more sense.
Open mike 05/06/2025
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Daily review 04/06/2025
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Louisa Wall – Project 2025 Is Silencing Māori Dissent — and It Didn’t Even Start Here
The attempt to punish Te Pāti Māori MPs for a haka protest is not just an internal matter—it reflects a broader, global effort to suppress dissent, erase cultural expression, and centralise power under the guise of order.
Work will not be so safe
Brooke Van Velden has announced changes to Workplace safety laws that will see prosecutions of Employers decrease but prosecutions of workers start.
Open mike 04/06/2025
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Daily review 03/06/2025
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Open mike 03/06/2025
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Writing in the time of Genocide
I want to share a writer’s journey – of living and writing through the Genocide. Because my country provides support to Israel and the US, I feel compelled to support Palestine by doing the one thing I know best: writing.
The existential moment we are in
As the world re-entangles and pushes our interdependence to the foreground, we need a new thesis on freedom.
Open mike 02/06/2025
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