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Date published: 8:00 am, February 20th, 2017 - 43 comments
John Key’s support as preferred Prime Minister has plunged in the latest Colmar Brunton poll. And he has been seen playing sponsored golf for a Japanese businessman with unusual characteristics.
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Date published: 7:04 am, February 20th, 2017 - 46 comments
As Finance Minister Bill English effectively ruled out tax cuts, but it’s election year, and so of course the Nats can’t help but trot out their one-trick election pony again.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 20th, 2017 - 75 comments
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Date published: 6:20 pm, February 19th, 2017 - 111 comments
1 News: “The gap between National and the centre left block of Labour and the Greens has tightened in the wake of John Key’s departure as leader, according to the first major poll since his shock resignation.”
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Date published: 9:30 am, February 19th, 2017 - 27 comments
This week’s Economist looks at the resurgence in the business of the more effective mainstream media in the US. But the effect reaches all the way over here. Even I’m reading more on a the ongoing debacle that is the incompetent Trump White House. Good reporting and perfect reading for the summer season and I suspect that it is impacting all of the blogs at present.
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Date published: 8:00 am, February 19th, 2017 - 16 comments
The Standard’s inaugural book club looks at E. F. Schumacher’s sustainability classic.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 19th, 2017 - 113 comments
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Date published: 11:00 pm, February 18th, 2017 - 86 comments
In a guest post, Labour’s Ōhāriu candidate Greg O’Connor responds to some of the topics of comments in the post “Greg O’Connor selected for Ōhāriu” and elsewhere on the blogs.
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Date published: 12:00 pm, February 18th, 2017 - 60 comments
With former adversaries USA and Russia now the best of friends and with China now emerging again as the preeminent economy in the world the question is will the transition of power be handled smoothly?
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Date published: 8:23 am, February 18th, 2017 - 34 comments
Gerry Brownlee is a walking disaster. Such is the depth of National’s talent pool that he is ranked number 4 in their lineup.
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Date published: 7:28 am, February 18th, 2017 - 33 comments
Looks like a strong candidate – all the best in Auckland Central!
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 18th, 2017 - 56 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 17th, 2017 - 6 comments
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Date published: 1:28 pm, February 17th, 2017 - 97 comments
Andrew Little’s announcement yesterday in Gisborne of Labour’s pledge of up to $20million to build a prefabricated timber plant there is a much-needed boost to the area and a sign that Labour’s 100,000 new house pledge first made by David Shearer in 2012 has legs.
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Date published: 10:58 am, February 17th, 2017 - 4 comments
Any sign of progress is welcome, but let’s hope English is not deliberately stringing along the Pike River families with false hope.
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Date published: 7:17 am, February 17th, 2017 - 132 comments
What are the Greens up to then?
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Date published: 7:03 am, February 17th, 2017 - 65 comments
Hey Bill English, it’s not the case that “no one could have anticipated the large-scale fire on the Port Hills”. Just about every relevant organisation could and did predict it. Most of the other predictions relating to climate change will come true too.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 17th, 2017 - 47 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 16th, 2017 - 14 comments
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Date published: 1:22 pm, February 16th, 2017 - 6 comments
We need one – and an apology. Bill may wonder aloud whether we’ll learn much, but I wonder if he’s more concerned we’ll learn too much…
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Date published: 11:15 am, February 16th, 2017 - 34 comments
The Equal Pay Act was passed in 1972. It’s now 2017 and it’s never been enforced. It’s time to ‘Treat Her Right’.
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Date published: 10:49 am, February 16th, 2017 - 121 comments
Another blow to Dunedin.
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Date published: 8:00 am, February 16th, 2017 - 35 comments
It seems almost inevitable that the recent fires in Canterbury and the Hawkes Bay are the result of climate change and the harbingers of things to come.
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Date published: 7:30 am, February 16th, 2017 - 9 comments
Kia kaha Christchurch.
(photo credit: Michael Hodgson).
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 16th, 2017 - 86 comments
“The obligation of a journalist is to serve the public”
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Date published: 6:49 am, February 16th, 2017 - 167 comments
Marama Fox and Bill English have painted themselves into a bit of a corner, and Fox is threatening to “walk away from the Government”. Key would have handled this better.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 16th, 2017 - 49 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 15th, 2017 - 62 comments
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Date published: 2:32 pm, February 15th, 2017 - 11 comments
Our long Oliver-less nightmare is over.
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Date published: 11:23 am, February 15th, 2017 - 20 comments
Who can even keep up with it all?
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Date published: 9:35 am, February 15th, 2017 - 35 comments
Over in the United States of Trumpsville National Security Advisor to the Trump White House Mike Flynn, who famously said that Hillary Clinton should be locked up for threatening national security by having a private email server, has been sacked for threatening national security and for lying to the vice president.
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