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Date published: 6:00 am, March 12th, 2017 - 38 comments
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Date published: 1:16 pm, March 11th, 2017 - 84 comments
A good interview with Andrew Little on The Nation. Among the many topics covered, Little stated that all pledges can be funded without raising taxes.
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Date published: 9:32 am, March 11th, 2017 - 48 comments
Christchurch Councillor Raf Manji has announced that he will be standing as an independent against Gerry Brownlee for the Ilam seat in Christchurch.
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Date published: 8:37 am, March 11th, 2017 - 14 comments
Will Nick Smith get the message and set in place a realistic consultation process and safe standards, or will he persist with a plan so bad that no one wants to be associated with it?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 11th, 2017 - 151 comments
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Date published: 5:45 pm, March 10th, 2017 - 52 comments
The Māori King’s comments reveal a much bigger crisis within Māori politics.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 10th, 2017 - 44 comments
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Date published: 1:18 pm, March 10th, 2017 - 19 comments
Remember how the move of Nick Leggett to National was supposed to be some big disaster for Labour?
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Date published: 9:32 am, March 10th, 2017 - 21 comments
Morgan’s TOP climate change policy is out, and it commits to “net zero carbon emissions by 2050”. There’s lots to like…
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Date published: 7:03 am, March 10th, 2017 - 32 comments
A couple of racist groups seem to be hawking their wares recently. Unfortunately this may herald the start of a dirty election, dragged down by well funded and unaccountable pressure groups.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 10th, 2017 - 108 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 9th, 2017 - 72 comments
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Date published: 9:38 am, March 9th, 2017 - 98 comments
A new coalition protests health under-funding, while the cost of the holiday highway blows out. Our government has its priorities all screwed up.
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Date published: 8:22 am, March 9th, 2017 - 38 comments
Fresh from insulting voters, English has now taken to insulting political parties. Perhaps he doesn’t want to be in government any more? Or is he just losing it completely?
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Date published: 7:15 am, March 9th, 2017 - 71 comments
Yesterday, on International Women’s day David Seymour chose to attack Metiria Turei for what she was wearing.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 9th, 2017 - 64 comments
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Date published: 7:22 pm, March 8th, 2017 - 50 comments
Test of a speech given by feminist icon Sandra Coney on the state of the feminist movement in 2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 8th, 2017 - 11 comments
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Date published: 11:47 am, March 8th, 2017 - 93 comments
The IMF warns that our household debt is far too high, as desperate tenants start raiding the Kiwisaver accounts to pay the rent.
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Date published: 10:00 am, March 8th, 2017 - 99 comments
Some very quick initial thoughts on expected reactions.
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Date published: 8:59 am, March 8th, 2017 - 53 comments
Bill English’s new super plan falls between 2 stools. The super cost crisis that he’s trying to summon up, is before 2040 if it exists. The solution was the Cullen Fund. By 2040 you’re just adding yet another Baby Boomer cost onto GenX and the millenials, and there’s going to be a shortage of jobs anyway, without adding 65 & 66 year-olds to our dole queues.
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Date published: 7:10 am, March 8th, 2017 - 73 comments
A new report has some really interesting findings on the gender pay gap. Paula Bennett engaged in a bit of grandstanding, but it rings completely hollow given National’s history on the issue.
Happy International Women’s Day.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 8th, 2017 - 48 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 7th, 2017 - 50 comments
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Date published: 9:52 am, March 7th, 2017 - 40 comments
The crisis around English’s amateur-hour handling of the super announcement is an opportunity for Judith Collins.
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Date published: 7:52 am, March 7th, 2017 - 43 comments
English isn’t going to be very happy when he opens the papers this morning.
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Date published: 7:37 am, March 7th, 2017 - 20 comments
Donald Trump’s recently announced replacement policy in immigration is wrong. And this is why.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 7th, 2017 - 52 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 6th, 2017 - 1 comment
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Date published: 4:08 pm, March 6th, 2017 - 123 comments
In what seems to have been a panicked reaction to a disastrous series of interviews, English has just announced that the age of eligibility for super will rise from 65 to 67, phased in from 2037.
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