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Date published: 9:19 am, June 19th, 2017 - 39 comments
RNZ: The Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment ignored advice from the Reserve Bank over its new housing affordability measure, and made houses appear to be more affordable than they actually were.
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Date published: 6:30 am, June 19th, 2017 - 14 comments
How not to be a twit.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 19th, 2017 - 184 comments
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Date published: 6:44 pm, June 18th, 2017 - 21 comments
Tonight Newshub had new footage from deep inside Pike River mine. It showed no fire damage.
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Date published: 4:12 pm, June 18th, 2017 - 19 comments
The Wellington Regional Council has contracted its bus services but not protected its drivers’ incomes. They stand to lose an average of $200 a week.
And Wellington risks losing the great public transport system it is so proud of.
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Date published: 3:09 pm, June 18th, 2017 - 1 comment
A little bit of UK political parody grime…
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Date published: 12:44 pm, June 18th, 2017 - 14 comments
For almost two decades there have been a number of perfectly acceptable domestic fire sprinkler solutions available in the NZ market. When building new I always wear the modest extra cost of installing them; our first ones during 2002. For most units it amounts to something under $4,000 which frankly is peanuts in the wider […]
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Date published: 11:19 am, June 18th, 2017 - 51 comments
The Minister for Disability Issues would rather be sailing.
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Date published: 7:03 am, June 18th, 2017 - 57 comments
The Nation did good work on the housing crisis yesterday. This is the Brighter Future that Bill English warned of in 2010.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 18th, 2017 - 149 comments
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Date published: 7:03 am, June 17th, 2017 - 18 comments
Simon Bridges tried to block the release of a report on a Kiwirail proposal. The Ombudsman warns against flouting the Official Information Act. But it’s a well established pattern of behaviour with this government.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 17th, 2017 - 120 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 16th, 2017 - 46 comments
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Date published: 3:19 pm, June 16th, 2017 - 24 comments
Did Jeremy Corbyn just cut through a whole pile of smash?
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Date published: 2:56 pm, June 16th, 2017 - 9 comments
I guess English can’t be too angry at Coleman – just last year he stuffed up his own numbers to the tune of $160m per year when “explaining” why he was vetoing an extension to paid parental leave.
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Date published: 10:49 am, June 16th, 2017 - 51 comments
We need new thinking on the economy – zero emissions, sustainable, a big redistribution from rich to poor. But the list of current economic woe shows that even on their own old conventional terms the Nats are useless economic managers.
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Date published: 8:22 am, June 16th, 2017 - 199 comments
UNICEF has another major report ranking the wellbeing of NZ kids 34th out of 41 developed countries. This is not new news, and apparently a lot of voters just don’t give a damn.
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Date published: 7:00 am, June 16th, 2017 - 124 comments
The politics of the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 16th, 2017 - 44 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 15th, 2017 - 82 comments
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Date published: 3:24 pm, June 15th, 2017 - 5 comments
One week after the UK election, how did we miss this one?…
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Date published: 10:23 am, June 15th, 2017 - 36 comments
It’s 100 days to the election!
Young voters have the power…
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Date published: 7:56 am, June 15th, 2017 - 116 comments
The possible introduction of debt to income lending ratios will potentially have an enormous effect on New Zealand’s housing market.
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Date published: 7:03 am, June 15th, 2017 - 37 comments
Those arguing for unrestricted immigration are – wittingly or unwittingly – fueling higher levels of exploitation in NZ.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 15th, 2017 - 83 comments
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Date published: 5:40 pm, June 14th, 2017 - 54 comments
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Date published: 12:23 pm, June 14th, 2017 - 5 comments
Something to check out if you are in Auckland tonight, the CTU’s Bill Rosenberg discusses the budget. He will “examine the Government’s priorities and look at what needs to be done”.
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Date published: 10:34 am, June 14th, 2017 - 81 comments
New Zealand has completely backed down from its original position of opposing the illegal occupation by Israel of Palestinian land and apologised to Israel for damaging the relationship.
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Date published: 8:16 am, June 14th, 2017 - 54 comments
English’s scaremongering about Labour’s immigration policy does nothing but highlight the fundamental weakness of our economy. Just how anemic are we after 9 long years?
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Date published: 7:05 am, June 14th, 2017 - 20 comments
The numbers aren’t looking good for The Sun or Breitbart. It would be great to see these hate mongers slip further into irrelevance.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 14th, 2017 - 93 comments
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