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Date published: 11:59 am, January 25th, 2017 - 20 comments
The problems we have identified many times, with privatisation of essential services, continue.
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Date published: 11:14 am, January 25th, 2017 - 100 comments
How do we feel about NZ becoming a lifeboat for the super-rich to run out on the problems that they created?
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Date published: 7:02 am, January 25th, 2017 - 53 comments
Any increase in the minimum wage is better than nothing, but National’s increases have not kept pace with the real cost increases (notably housing) faced by low income earners. That is why we are seeing the rise of the working poor, and increases in homelessness and poverty.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 25th, 2017 - 147 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 24th, 2017 - 33 comments
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Date published: 1:11 pm, January 24th, 2017 - 135 comments
All this housing malarkey…are we over it yet?
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Date published: 12:37 pm, January 24th, 2017 - 52 comments
“Donald Trump signs anti-abortion executive order surrounded by men”
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Date published: 11:00 am, January 24th, 2017 - 15 comments
Jonathan Pie gets angry at Trump’s treatment of the media.
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Date published: 8:42 am, January 24th, 2017 - 81 comments
Totally unexpected in an election year, but Te Ururoa Flavell is making a play for the Māori seats. Morgan Godfery has some thoughts on the hype.
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Date published: 8:39 am, January 24th, 2017 - 70 comments
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and leaving the agreement effectively dead in its tracks.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 24th, 2017 - 86 comments
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Date published: 8:33 pm, January 23rd, 2017 - 138 comments
“These are the people’s assets” – Ioela ‘Niki’ Rauti.
State houses are being given to developers, and people are being evicted from their homes.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 23rd, 2017 - 10 comments
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Date published: 12:30 pm, January 23rd, 2017 - 12 comments
So what’s important? Millions on the streets and what might become of that, or how many more or fewer people attended a given President’s big day? Just asking…
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Date published: 11:10 am, January 23rd, 2017 - 31 comments
Not meant as a general criticism. Auckland has lovely beaches. When they aren’t drowning in shit that is.
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Date published: 8:56 am, January 23rd, 2017 - 61 comments
Campaigning is underway in Mt Albert. Looks like it will be a very different kind of by election.
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Date published: 7:02 am, January 23rd, 2017 - 195 comments
The Trump / Spicer claim that the inauguration crowds were “the largest audience ever to witness and inauguration, period” are such an obvious lie that it seems unhinged. But there could be method to the madness.
(Update: Apparently in Trump speak these are “alternative facts”.)
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 23rd, 2017 - 93 comments
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Date published: 10:10 am, January 22nd, 2017 - 60 comments
The Sister Marches have been a huge success worldwide.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 22nd, 2017 - 79 comments
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Date published: 8:30 am, January 21st, 2017 - 105 comments
I want justice for the families of the worst workplace tragedy in decades. If New Zealanders choose to change the Government this year, Pike will be a priority in my first hundred days as Prime Minister.
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Date published: 6:16 am, January 21st, 2017 - 124 comments
Donald Trump has now been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. And we are in unchartered territory.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 21st, 2017 - 120 comments
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Date published: 10:10 pm, January 20th, 2017 - 10 comments
, Back in the US, back in the US…R
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Date published: 12:00 pm, January 20th, 2017 - 30 comments
It has been 6 months since the announcement that New Zealand would be predator free by 2050. But is sounds like nothing concrete has happened yet.
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Date published: 8:51 am, January 20th, 2017 - 102 comments
Bill English says that he was probably for the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand although has hinted that he has since changed his mind.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 20th, 2017 - 100 comments
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Date published: 10:51 pm, January 19th, 2017 - 41 comments
Some moment in time will be that moment in time when reality’s faced; when both actions and words accord with it. That moment might as well be this moment as opposed to any other.
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Date published: 9:43 am, January 19th, 2017 - 24 comments
Matt Nippert continued his excellent work on foreign trusts yesterday in The Herald. Will Bill English clean up the mess that John Key was determined to ignore?
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Date published: 8:23 am, January 19th, 2017 - 26 comments
The release online of a trove of declassified CIA documents includes several pertaining to NZ. The Herald’s David Fisher has given us a fine summary.
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