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Date published: 9:50 am, July 4th, 2017 - 25 comments
Nick Smith is attempting to rewrite history by claiming that the Government never thought the special housing area affordable housing provisions would work and that the housing crisis is improving.
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Date published: 9:41 am, July 4th, 2017 - 122 comments
An open letter has accused Paula Bennett of serious historical crimes. Bennett has denied the allegations and threatened legal action. Facebook has removed the source documents.
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Date published: 8:00 am, July 4th, 2017 - 9 comments
Ad asks is the world more secure than a year ago? Is the danger of serious economic crisis higher or lower? Are the institutional arrangements and norms that resolve conflicts and enhance the prospects for international cooperation more or less robust than they were in July 2016.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 4th, 2017 - 62 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 3rd, 2017 - 99 comments
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Date published: 10:49 am, July 3rd, 2017 - 28 comments
With so much evidence available, why was the first police investigation into the Todd Barclay scandal dropped so quickly? This is now the subject of a complaint to the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
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Date published: 9:01 am, July 3rd, 2017 - 185 comments
As other citizenship cases are compared to Peter Thiel, it starkly highlights our “one law for the rich” approach.
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Date published: 6:35 am, July 3rd, 2017 - 18 comments
The scientific data clearly shows that the New Zealand Government needs to be doing a lot more than it’s doing at the moment. It is dragging the chain as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
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Date published: 6:14 am, July 3rd, 2017 - 17 comments
We stand for an Aotearoa that stands up to racism and scapegoating and xenophobia.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 3rd, 2017 - 48 comments
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Date published: 1:03 pm, July 2nd, 2017 - 148 comments
This time last year, there was a smattering of posts put up about average global ocean and land surface temperatures. They didn’t make for comfortable reading.
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Date published: 10:04 am, July 2nd, 2017 - 31 comments
Bill English has an active social media strategy, likely well funded and professional. While most commentators are cringing at it, plenty of people are probably buying the counterfeit Bill.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 2nd, 2017 - 70 comments
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Date published: 11:14 am, July 1st, 2017 - 18 comments
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Date published: 10:26 am, July 1st, 2017 - 15 comments
More excellent reporting from Newsroom: “Long overdue pay rate increases affecting 55,000 New Zealand care and support workers kick in on July 1. But the Government’s failure to fully fund the changes is threatening to derail service providers”
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Date published: 9:49 am, July 1st, 2017 - 20 comments
Not just because it’s winter, and the weather is lousy, but also because of this…
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 1st, 2017 - 97 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 30th, 2017 - 29 comments
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Date published: 1:28 pm, June 30th, 2017 - 153 comments
Shane Jones will seek to reenter Parliament and has been selected as the candidate for the Whangarei seat. But for New Zealand First.
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Date published: 11:45 am, June 30th, 2017 - 43 comments
In shocking news, it turns out that employers don’t like Labour’s new employment relations package. They (and the usual suspects) are running lines about a return to the 1970s. A time when workers’ share of the wealth was higher, poverty was lower, inequality was lower, and workers had more rights. Sounds awful.
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Date published: 9:01 am, June 30th, 2017 - 39 comments
The National Rifle Association in America has released a video which essentially advocates for violence against liberal resistance to conservatism.
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Date published: 7:04 am, June 30th, 2017 - 33 comments
The debarclay rumbles on. The Nat’s deploy the Game of Hats gambit. The vultures circle over the remains of Todd B in Clutha-Southland while his zombie vote is exploited to squeak through legislation. It could all have been so very different if the electorate had chosen the best candidate in 2014. Their loss is Invercargill’s gain – Liz Craig in 2017!
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 30th, 2017 - 83 comments
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Date published: 5:35 pm, June 29th, 2017 - 10 comments
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Date published: 4:05 pm, June 29th, 2017 - 107 comments
Labour: “After nine years of National, working people’s share of the economy is falling. Less than 40 per cent of economic growth under National has gone into working people’s wages. If working people’s slice of the economy hadn’t shrunk under National, workers’ pay packets would have been $23 billion larger.”
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Date published: 12:52 pm, June 29th, 2017 - 49 comments
Following an intervention by the Ombudsman the Government has been obliged to disclose the number of days that Peter Thiel spent in New Zealand in the five years leading up to his grant of citizenship. The answer is very few.
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Date published: 9:23 am, June 29th, 2017 - 41 comments
A Southland Times editorial has a pretty blunt assessment of the PM: English wasn’t there for us. “In what he has done and in what he has failed to do, English has himself become a party to the deception of the public.”
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Date published: 8:31 am, June 29th, 2017 - 27 comments
The Government is seeking to sell 2,500 Christchurch Housing Corporation homes. The shortlist of potential purchasers includes an Australian company recently successfully sued for human rights breaches of refugees on Manus Island.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 29th, 2017 - 105 comments
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Date published: 8:12 pm, June 28th, 2017 - 43 comments
On 20 June after Melanie Read’s Newsroom interview Andrew Geddis blogged about possible obstruction of justice by a National Party Board member. That was based on new information in the Barclay case, and may be why the Police have since re-interviewed Glenys Dickson.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 28th, 2017 - 47 comments
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