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Date published: 6:00 am, February 6th, 2017 - 68 comments
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Date published: 6:01 pm, February 5th, 2017 - 7 comments
We just hit 1.2 million comments published. I noticed by accident!. Typically it was on politics
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Date published: 3:07 pm, February 5th, 2017 - 311 comments
“As the Labour Party Spokesperson for Family and Sexual Violence, I am concerned that Willie Jackson is becoming a Labour Party candidate with a prominent ranking on the list.”
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Date published: 9:14 am, February 5th, 2017 - 45 comments
What to do when your erstwhile ally loses the plot?
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Date published: 9:09 am, February 5th, 2017 - 189 comments
How does the left discuss the immigration debate so that it can counter the anti immigration sentiments fostered by the likes of Donald Trump, Theresa May and Malcolm Turnbull?
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 5th, 2017 - 71 comments
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Date published: 1:43 pm, February 4th, 2017 - 93 comments
The Government signed a deal with Peter Thiel that socialised the losses and allowed him to privatise the gains of the joint venture fund that the parties entered into.
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Date published: 12:27 pm, February 4th, 2017 - 25 comments
Following on from their joint “state of the nation” it’s been a good week for the political left in NZ. Here’s a roundup.
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Date published: 7:57 am, February 4th, 2017 - 43 comments
Socioeconomic status is a major health risk factor. Not exactly a surprise is it.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 4th, 2017 - 138 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 3rd, 2017 - 39 comments
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Date published: 9:19 am, February 3rd, 2017 - 31 comments
Compassionate conservatism in action. No wonder English was so tame in his criticism of Trump’s Muslim ban.
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Date published: 8:11 am, February 3rd, 2017 - 70 comments
Diplomacy in the age of Trump is going to be a real blast. Just ask Australia.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 3rd, 2017 - 96 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 2nd, 2017 - 36 comments
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Date published: 4:38 pm, February 2nd, 2017 - 26 comments
Fair to say that Bill English’s “big” policy announcement today was a total flop.
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Date published: 12:38 pm, February 2nd, 2017 - 51 comments
(Photo – Peter McIntosh the Otago Daily Times)
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Date published: 11:08 am, February 2nd, 2017 - 86 comments
From a Business Insider article in the OIA papers: Thiel is a long-term thinker, so what’s the big picture? What could the contrarian investor see in a country of 4 million people whose economy is based on agriculture and tourism? Maybe Peter Thiel wants to turn New Zealand into the next Silicon Valley. Or maybe even the libertarian utopia of his dreams.”
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Date published: 10:35 am, February 2nd, 2017 - 71 comments
Like many, I have mixed feelings about these developments, but on balance I am in favour of the “broad church” approach
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Date published: 8:16 am, February 2nd, 2017 - 78 comments
The Peter Thiel paper dump raise more questions than they answer and hints at ongoing communication with National ministers and that John Key approached Thiel to make the donation subsequently made to Key’s earthquake fund.
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Date published: 8:15 am, February 2nd, 2017 - 12 comments
Despite National’s fiddling the figures on the way unemployment is counted, the unemployment rate is on the rise again.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 2nd, 2017 - 131 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 1st, 2017 - 42 comments
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Date published: 1:46 pm, February 1st, 2017 - 46 comments
Labour is serious about regional development. It is proposing a 10 year $200m package of regional initiatives. The first of these was just announced in Dunedin.
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Date published: 10:00 am, February 1st, 2017 - 24 comments
Donald Trump’s attack on human rights is nothing new. American history has many examples of attacks on basic rights.
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Date published: 9:09 am, February 1st, 2017 - 58 comments
Via NewsHub: Gareth Morgan and his party to contest Mt Albert by-election?
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Date published: 8:58 am, February 1st, 2017 - 25 comments
Interim PM Bill English is getting a hammering for his “weak and indecisive” response to Trump’s Muslim ban.
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Date published: 8:21 am, February 1st, 2017 - 6 comments
A touching cartoon message to Bill English on why he should increase New Zealand’s refugee intake.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 1st, 2017 - 222 comments
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Date published: 6:44 pm, January 31st, 2017 - 16 comments
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