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Date published: 8:23 am, April 5th, 2017 - 15 comments
Because of our our central government’s refusal to build social housing and both NZTA and AT rigorously avoiding urban development integration, the default control of housing supply lies with Australian regulation of New Zealand’s retail banks and their lending.
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Date published: 7:01 am, April 5th, 2017 - 50 comments
You could vote for three more years of “brighter future”. Or you could listen to the nurses.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 5th, 2017 - 108 comments
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Date published: 9:01 pm, April 4th, 2017 - 28 comments
Further very heavy rain is expected over the North Island in the next 12 hours. Civil Emergencies have been declared in several places.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 4th, 2017 - 45 comments
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Date published: 3:48 pm, April 4th, 2017 - 76 comments
The typhoid outbreak in Auckland is very bad news. Now would also be a good time to reflect on NZ’s generally poor record on child poverty and disease.
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Date published: 11:15 am, April 4th, 2017 - 36 comments
Right wing agendas seize control in England and America. Talk of war from England and America. Probably just a coincidence.
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Date published: 8:30 am, April 4th, 2017 - 27 comments
To win the 2017 election Labour does not need a broad suite of policies, rather it needs to make sure that it is asking the right questions.
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Date published: 7:03 am, April 4th, 2017 - 89 comments
In ruling out an inquiry Bill English insults both our intelligence and our integrity. Next stop the International Criminal Court? (Alas the title is not mine, take a bow Finlay MacDonald.)
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 4th, 2017 - 54 comments
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Date published: 6:04 pm, April 3rd, 2017 - 60 comments
If you are one of the right wing nut jobs that read this site, then Horizon puts out some truly scary polls. But if you aren’t an idiot and actually take the time to read material before criticizing it (unlike Hooton on ‘Hit and Run’) then this points to a tight election as is usual under MMP. But with all of the swing in the direction of a Labour led coalition. But I am sure the simpleton spinners will have another explanation.
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Date published: 5:32 pm, April 3rd, 2017 - 27 comments
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Date published: 10:15 am, April 3rd, 2017 - 58 comments
“A poisonous and destructive cancer” – that’s not something you say to your allies.
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Date published: 9:53 am, April 3rd, 2017 - 36 comments
The Standard has on your behalf read the Herald’s latest article on how young people in Auckland can own their home and worked out the most important thing a young person can do to buy a home in Auckland.
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Date published: 9:00 am, April 3rd, 2017 - 22 comments
The lobbying body for fishing industry and Nathan Guy who is the responsible minister think there is no conflict of interest in the lobbying body inheriting huge powers previously held by the Ministry for Primary Industries.
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Date published: 7:03 am, April 3rd, 2017 - 154 comments
It’s likely that some time this week Bill English will announce that there will be no inquiry into operation Burnham. The NZDF will lose any opportunity to clear its name. Fronting up to the truth, whatever it may be, is better than the perception of a shabby coverup.
Update: And there it is – no inquiry.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 3rd, 2017 - 66 comments
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Date published: 12:16 pm, April 2nd, 2017 - 91 comments
The Green Party has released its indicative party list for consideration by the party membership.
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Date published: 11:36 am, April 2nd, 2017 - 23 comments
Some impressions from the Auckland Labour list conference.
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Date published: 8:26 am, April 2nd, 2017 - 166 comments
This old chestnut is getting another outing on Stuff today.
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 2nd, 2017 - 59 comments
“Yours is an honourable mission with the power to bring alive the conscience of the world”
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 2nd, 2017 - 25 comments
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Date published: 1:31 pm, April 1st, 2017 - 31 comments
Thirty years old today – the longest April Fool’s joke in history?
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Date published: 7:59 am, April 1st, 2017 - 46 comments
People who do not agree or who wise-up to what’s going on are, as per the instructions of Scientology founder, L Ron Hubbard, to be “disposed of quietly and without sorrow”.
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 1st, 2017 - 28 comments
Trip trop trip trop…
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 1st, 2017 - 33 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 31st, 2017 - 7 comments
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Date published: 12:30 pm, March 31st, 2017 - 41 comments
Ok. Round 2. Still no more relevant information from Netsafe.
I’m getting somewhat irritated with them. When exactly are they going to get off their arses and provide the information that we need to make a decision?
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Date published: 10:46 am, March 31st, 2017 - 22 comments
RNZ: “Labour and the Green Party have closed the gap slightly on National in the latest Poll of Polls”.
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Date published: 7:44 am, March 31st, 2017 - 57 comments
Worst piece of “journalism” on Hit and Run so far.
Update: To their credit, as of 11am this piece of nonsense seems to have vanished from The Herald website.
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Date published: 7:03 am, March 31st, 2017 - 60 comments
Warnings on the state of the Auckland housing market are coming thick and fast now. People who bought recently (at the peak of prices and low interest rates) are likely to get burned.
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