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Date published: 12:42 pm, November 17th, 2016 - 63 comments
A couple of dirty politics related stories that slipped under the radar in the last hectic week.
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Date published: 8:54 am, November 17th, 2016 - 40 comments
As 2016 lines up for its place in the record books – what if every year from now is the hottest year ever?
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Date published: 7:29 am, November 17th, 2016 - 56 comments
Details of a celebrity debate happening this Friday in Auckland on the benefit of a Universal Transaction Tax or Robin Hood tax. The affirmative side will feature Peter Nielson, Jane Kelsey and Rod Oram and the negative side will include Deborah Russell, Nigel Haworth and Shamubeel Eaqub.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 17th, 2016 - 101 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 16th, 2016 - 80 comments
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Date published: 9:16 am, November 16th, 2016 - 16 comments
Ngai Tahu should be congratulated for opening up Takahanga Marae to the victims of the Kaikoura earthquake and for providing for and looking after them.
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Date published: 7:26 am, November 16th, 2016 - 21 comments
The bright orange trigger for a sharp rise in mortgage interest rates may have just arrived. Our over-indebted home owners are highly vulnerable.
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Date published: 6:34 am, November 16th, 2016 - 75 comments
For discussing the quakes and the aftermath. Current updates. Includes comments from Geonet Director Dr Ken Gledhill.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 16th, 2016 - 114 comments
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Date published: 5:55 am, November 16th, 2016 - 68 comments
A post-US election space for engendering solidarity and resistance.
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Date published: 9:46 pm, November 15th, 2016 - 64 comments
“Seismic blasting, every 10 seconds, 24hrs a day from now until next May” Time to step up again and protect our environment.
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Date published: 5:32 pm, November 15th, 2016 - 61 comments
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Date published: 10:45 am, November 15th, 2016 - 193 comments
Andrew Little on the Kaikoura Earthquakes.
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Date published: 10:10 am, November 15th, 2016 - 23 comments
Update: Chaos in Wellington – check the news…
It’s times like this you appreciate our emergency response systems. Huge thanks to everyone who has worked / is working to keep others safe, supplied, informed.
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Date published: 9:30 am, November 15th, 2016 - 34 comments
Investigative journalist Nicky Hager has been awarded interim legal costs towards $475,082 spent suing police.
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Date published: 8:30 am, November 15th, 2016 - 22 comments
“Now six years later, the Government is moving to seal the mine. They are literally putting hundreds of tonnes of concrete between us and our boys. Between the whole world and whatever evidence of what happened is down there.”
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Date published: 8:00 am, November 15th, 2016 - 125 comments
Democracy is difficult. Government is far too complex and ordinary people have neither the time nor the inclination to spend time to understand it properly. So what are the alternatives?
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 15th, 2016 - 129 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 14th, 2016 - 14 comments
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Date published: 3:00 pm, November 14th, 2016 - 13 comments
Anna Osborne on the earthquake and day three of the Pike River occupation.
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Date published: 12:54 pm, November 14th, 2016 - 234 comments
Take a deep breath and transcend your fear.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 14th, 2016 - 91 comments
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Date published: 12:30 am, November 14th, 2016 - 115 comments
A night of quakes.
Beach and shore warning (original major Tsunami warning is over).
Wellington recommends avoid CBD today (all trains cancelled).
Scholarship exams today are postponed, NCEA exams proceeding where possible – official link.
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Date published: 12:42 pm, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments
A challenging and provocative piece on Trump’s election victory from an Arab perspective.
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Date published: 12:00 pm, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments
Bollocks. It was never going to be.
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Date published: 10:00 am, November 13th, 2016 - 23 comments
What exactly happened at Pike River? The families of the 29 men who died don’t know, and as Solid Energy moves to seal the mine forever, they demand justice.
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Date published: 9:01 am, November 13th, 2016 - 97 comments
On the same day that the pollsters in the world’s most advanced democracy were shown to have got things terribly wrong a Professor in New Zealand says that National will win next year because of polling data.
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Date published: 8:08 am, November 13th, 2016 - 55 comments
Trump is going to be a figurehead, not a president, leaving governance to an unfettered Republican machine. That machine is no friend of the disenfranchised, never was, never will be. How will Trump’s base react to being betrayed?
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Date published: 7:22 am, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 13th, 2016 - 54 comments
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Date published: 4:52 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 10 comments
“New Zealand now has a unique opportunity to revise its foreign policy and military spending,” says Dr Caldicott, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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