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Date published: 7:59 am, May 19th, 2017 - 38 comments
On the issues of suicide and mental health, the choice is pretty clear. Bungling and abuse from National, a positive plan for action from Labour.
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Date published: 7:05 am, May 19th, 2017 - 30 comments
The Jonathan Pie guide to voter engagement.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 19th, 2017 - 46 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 18th, 2017 - 60 comments
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Date published: 12:12 pm, May 18th, 2017 - 62 comments
Poor wee chap is obviously desperate for some attention, if this latest incoherent thrashing on the dead TPP is anything to go by – Bill English has saved TPP.
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Date published: 10:13 am, May 18th, 2017 - 28 comments
John Armstrong is not impressed: Government’s handling of housing crisis lurches from chaotic to shambolic
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Date published: 8:24 am, May 18th, 2017 - 22 comments
What can the U.S. security collective do to work with their government and achieve something positive with Donald Trump?
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Date published: 7:05 am, May 18th, 2017 - 26 comments
Richard Harman on the Politik blog: “Overall, to use a favourite Government saying, it was an ‘untidy’ weekend capped by a flat speech from English which saw delegates ignore placards they’d been given to wave when he finished speaking.” The B-team is missing John Key.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 18th, 2017 - 29 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 17th, 2017 - 38 comments
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Date published: 9:06 am, May 17th, 2017 - 40 comments
NZ with its various operations around this end of the Pacific really doesn’t need its own intelligence gathering operations blown by the current incompetent blowhard of the White House. Nor does anyone else who shares information with the US. That is the problem with Trump childishly boasting about the intelligence gathered by others merely to boost his ego.
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Date published: 8:41 am, May 17th, 2017 - 186 comments
It must be election year, because National has admitted that the market has failed, and swallowed the dead rat of state building. A useful graphic summary in The Herald lets you compare National and Labour’s housing plans…
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Date published: 6:28 am, May 17th, 2017 - 29 comments
UK Labour unveils a plan that is both radical and responsible.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 17th, 2017 - 82 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 16th, 2017 - 49 comments
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Date published: 1:16 pm, May 16th, 2017 - 83 comments
Useful but – mostly re-announcing existing developments, far too little, far too late, and open to property speculators…
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Date published: 9:27 am, May 16th, 2017 - 37 comments
It isn’t just third term arrogance. Ngaro is merely the latest example of National’s long history of attacking, intimidating, and trying to silence critical voices and facts. Take a stroll with me down memory lane…
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Date published: 8:31 am, May 16th, 2017 - 20 comments
National’s shifting position on Israel suggests all is not happy within National’s ranks.
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Date published: 6:13 am, May 16th, 2017 - 23 comments
Lloyd Burr has some more quotes from Ngaro before he was forced to apologise, and Stuff writes on the Nats third term arrogance.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 16th, 2017 - 98 comments
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Date published: 9:10 pm, May 15th, 2017 - 15 comments
You know that old saying about not picking a fight with someone who buys printer’s ink by the barrel? If not, Bill, you really should look it up…
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 15th, 2017 - 20 comments
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Date published: 12:26 pm, May 15th, 2017 - 128 comments
Labour has set the cat among the property speculator pigeons, and they don’t like it at all.
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Date published: 9:10 am, May 15th, 2017 - 122 comments
Housing may be the issue that decides this year’s election. And if Labour wins Andrew Little will have a major crisis to deal with, one that he has to solve.
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Date published: 7:54 am, May 15th, 2017 - 53 comments
Alfred Ngaro has apologised to the Prime Minister for threatening the funding of voluntary organisations critical of the Government, not for expressing the views or even thinking them but for being naïve.
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Date published: 7:04 am, May 15th, 2017 - 95 comments
It’s the right target, and the right reason, the left really does not want to end up dependent on Winston Peters for a shot at forming a government.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 15th, 2017 - 55 comments
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Date published: 1:49 pm, May 14th, 2017 - 93 comments
The text of Andrew Little’s speech delivered today to the Labour Party congress.
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Date published: 11:33 am, May 14th, 2017 - 11 comments
Speeches and policies from Congress so far.
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Date published: 9:31 am, May 14th, 2017 - 78 comments
Alfred Ngaro has told a National Conference that critics of the Government can expect to lose Government support for proposed contracts. And that Labour prompted concern about families living in cars.
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