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Date published: 7:27 am, June 3rd, 2017 - 41 comments
Guess which two NZ broadcasters have disgraced themselves by lining up behind Trump’s lunatic fringe denier posturing.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 3rd, 2017 - 92 comments
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Date published: 5:43 pm, June 2nd, 2017 - 8 comments
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Date published: 11:41 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 11 comments
The Government starts to make cannabidiol more available.
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Date published: 8:01 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 213 comments
Donald Trump has announced that the USA will be withdrawing from the Paris Climate Change Accord.
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Date published: 7:04 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 103 comments
The Ministry of Social Development illegally penalised a woman who refused to name the rapist father of her child. The case shines a spotlight on an issue that needs fixing.
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Date published: 6:37 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 20 comments
Got to hand it to Peter Dunne, he is a master of tragic comedy.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 54 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 1st, 2017 - 18 comments
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Date published: 10:58 am, June 1st, 2017 - 3 comments
Part of an occasional series. It all seems to be going according to plan.
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Date published: 7:06 am, June 1st, 2017 - 131 comments
The Tories’ supposed landslide trickles to a halt.
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Date published: 6:40 am, June 1st, 2017 - 19 comments
There’s the fake image building via painful social media – like spaghetti pizza and walk runs – and then there’s there’s the true character moments that go genuinely viral.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 1st, 2017 - 24 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 31st, 2017 - 20 comments
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Date published: 2:53 pm, May 31st, 2017 - 16 comments
One of the nasty little fishhooks in the budget was the cutting of the home insulation scheme (Warm Up New Zealand). The scheme had a benefit-cost ratio of $6 for every $1 invested. Around 1,600 people die in NZ a year of cold-related factors. Hope the tax cuts are worth it eh?
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Date published: 11:13 am, May 31st, 2017 - 34 comments
Thank you Robert Smellie QC, I’m sure your donation will be put to great use. Smellie said: “I am a practising Anglican and as such I see socialism as being far closer to the Gospel than free enterprise.”
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Date published: 10:00 am, May 31st, 2017 - 66 comments
The pace of change in transportation may mean that some time soon private ownership of petroleum cars may disappear.
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Date published: 9:18 am, May 31st, 2017 - 21 comments
Climate change, human rights, indigenous rights, Māori and Pasifika, and fresh, young faces on the 2017 Green Party List.
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Date published: 8:13 am, May 31st, 2017 - 46 comments
National’s social media have chosen a picture that sums up its policies well.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 31st, 2017 - 64 comments
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Date published: 5:35 pm, May 30th, 2017 - 18 comments
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Date published: 9:38 am, May 30th, 2017 - 40 comments
Bill English knows that our low wage economy is a ticking time-bomb for the government. He must be starting to get worried. The repeated promises of jam tomorrow are well worn out now.
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Date published: 9:00 am, May 30th, 2017 - 16 comments
The history of the Korean peninsular suggests that there is more than a remote chance of nuclear war breaking out some time soon.
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Date published: 8:34 am, May 30th, 2017 - 92 comments
“The Budget is what allows National to govern. If National failed to pass the Budget, all its legal ability to tax and spend would dry up and the Government would fall apart. There is no way we would vote for the Budget, because that would be supporting the National Government and its agenda.” Metiria Turei and James Shaw, Green Party blog.
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Date published: 7:21 am, May 30th, 2017 - 35 comments
In the wake of the accommodation supplement fiasco Joyce has promised that the government will monitor the rental market.
Questions that the media may wish to ask Mr J – Where do tenants send reports of rent gouging? – Exactly what action will the government take when they receive these reports?
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 30th, 2017 - 50 comments
Politics as a compass not a line.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 30th, 2017 - 58 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 29th, 2017 - 21 comments
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Date published: 11:02 am, May 29th, 2017 - 32 comments
Is this an isolated case or is it representative of a change of mood in the non-voting electorate?
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Date published: 8:25 am, May 29th, 2017 - 70 comments
Radio New Zealand has reported that the Government ignored two year old treasury advice to implement the increase in the accommodation supplement.
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