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Date published: 6:00 am, December 27th, 2016 - 93 comments
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Date published: 9:33 am, December 26th, 2016 - 72 comments
Donald Trump’s success in the recent Presidential Election may have had a lot to do with very judicious use of targeted Facebook advertising and the proliferation of fake news stories.
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Date published: 7:03 am, December 26th, 2016 - 63 comments
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Date published: 9:48 am, December 25th, 2016 - 32 comments
Robert Guyton concludes his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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Date published: 8:30 am, December 25th, 2016 - 12 comments
Advantage muses on the meaning of Christmas and how our response to it says a lot about who we are.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 25th, 2016 - 23 comments
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Date published: 7:48 pm, December 24th, 2016 - 287 comments
Murray McCully has had New Zealand co sponsor a successful Security Council resolution condemning Israel for violating International Law through its resettlement policy.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 24th, 2016 - 112 comments
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Date published: 12:00 pm, December 23rd, 2016 - 44 comments
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Date published: 8:09 am, December 23rd, 2016 - 26 comments
President Donald Trump reckons that the US must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability to make the world come to its senses regarding nukes.
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Date published: 6:10 am, December 23rd, 2016 - 107 comments
Alicia Sudden reflects on Christmas at The Briefing Papers: “Yet this brief annual window excludes the elephant in the room: that this poverty is a consequence of our welfare system failing to provide the support it was intended to.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 23rd, 2016 - 73 comments
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Date published: 8:00 am, December 22nd, 2016 - 51 comments
In the last days of the Obama presidency the current President is taking steps to protect the Arctic from oil drilling.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 22nd, 2016 - 146 comments
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Date published: 4:27 pm, December 21st, 2016 - 128 comments
The erratic Roy Morgan poll has swung around again, Nats down 4.5% to 45% and Labour/ Greens up up 5.5% to 43%. Worryingly for the B-team, government confidence fell a “whopping” 10 points.
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Date published: 10:24 am, December 21st, 2016 - 196 comments
Rudman: “The Prime Minister, in his role in charge of Housing New Zealand, and Smith have spectacularly failed to solve Auckland’s housing crisis over several years.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 21st, 2016 - 125 comments
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Date published: 3:23 pm, December 20th, 2016 - 24 comments
Maybe the Russians weren’t coming. Or we must believe that “KGB chief Vladimir Putin put Inspector Clouseau in charge of Russian security and left him to get on with it.” George Washington discusses the evidence. Fodder for the net-savvy
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Date published: 8:53 am, December 20th, 2016 - 62 comments
Steven Joyce believes that doing something is the same as not doing something.
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Date published: 6:55 am, December 20th, 2016 - 6 comments
Auckland City Mission is calling for donations to meet Christmas demand. You can donate here.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 20th, 2016 - 137 comments
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Date published: 5:37 pm, December 19th, 2016 - 43 comments
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Date published: 2:47 pm, December 19th, 2016 - 120 comments
Bill’s National is out of steam already.
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Date published: 2:10 pm, December 19th, 2016 - 22 comments
A Turkish journalist writes about the “post-truth” collapse of human rights in Turkey, and warns “western” readers that the same thing is happening to them.
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Date published: 7:23 am, December 19th, 2016 - 53 comments
What next for Collins? Burning ambition, a significant personal following, no future in National. Time jump to ACT? She must fancy her chances of taking over that pretend party and building it up to a “kingmaker” role.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 19th, 2016 - 170 comments
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Date published: 3:12 pm, December 18th, 2016 - 94 comments
Bill English has announced his cabinet reshuffle.
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Date published: 11:22 am, December 18th, 2016 - 85 comments
Stuff this morning: “Lord of the Rings actor says NZ tourists shocked by polluted ‘sewer’ Middle-earth”
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Date published: 7:21 am, December 18th, 2016 - 22 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 18th, 2016 - 154 comments
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