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Date published: 2:17 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 69 comments
Members of the National Party in Mount Roskill are trying to make a story out of Michael Wood after he responded directly to public insults made against his wife.
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Date published: 12:40 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 46 comments
“The world is changing, people are angry, and more than ever, we need open minds and compassionate action. I’m joining the @NZGreens”
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Date published: 12:34 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 17 comments
The Pike River families have decided to take a stand and are occupying the road to the mine to ensure it cannot be closed, sealing up the evidence of what happened and the bodies of their loved ones forever.
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Date published: 12:30 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 25 comments
I trust the truth will be reported by all the media that reported the lies.
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Date published: 12:23 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 13 comments
Change happens at the intersection of the edge and the mainstream.
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Date published: 11:25 am, November 12th, 2016 - 76 comments
Walking back the last 5 plus years of escalating military, economic and diplomatic proxy war between Russia and the United States will be difficult. But it has to be done.
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Date published: 9:42 am, November 12th, 2016 - 6 comments
A crop of worthy petitions for you consideration: health funding, public broadcasting, environment, and Paris Agreement.
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Date published: 9:15 am, November 12th, 2016 - 2 comments
Greenpeace on Auckland Council joining others around the country in opposing deep sea oil drilling.
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Date published: 8:05 am, November 12th, 2016 - 116 comments
What can we learn from the election of Donald J Drumpf?
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Date published: 8:00 am, November 12th, 2016 - 90 comments
The reason for the Democrats losing the recent presidential vote is contained in this video.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 12th, 2016 - 52 comments
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Date published: 7:19 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 34 comments
The Pike River families will be protesting tomorrow to get their men out of the mine that killed them.
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Date published: 5:20 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 60 comments
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Date published: 2:42 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 13 comments
In the midst of the cataclysmic big stories, we should not lose sight of the small personal ones.
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Date published: 12:55 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 24 comments
The Nats are determined to keep flogging the TPP horse in Parliament. Someone should buy them a newspaper.
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Date published: 12:05 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 83 comments
Trump laid siege to the Democrat’s “Blue Wall” and they didn’t respond to or recognise his strategem until far too late.
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Date published: 8:20 am, November 11th, 2016 - 113 comments
What all good progressives should be doing in these POTUS Trump days.
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Date published: 7:40 am, November 11th, 2016 - 82 comments
1 in 100 US voters switch and the polls would have been right, and we’d be talking about progressive America, destroyed Republicans and the ‘blue wall’.
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Date published: 7:30 am, November 11th, 2016 - 60 comments
Need a haven from the post-election fall out?
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 11th, 2016 - 102 comments
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Date published: 5:57 am, November 11th, 2016 - 267 comments
The daily general discussion thread about the US election.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 10th, 2016 - 44 comments
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Date published: 2:09 pm, November 10th, 2016 - 24 comments
In trying times, it’s good to have something to do.
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Date published: 10:54 am, November 10th, 2016 - 376 comments
Some thoughts on the US Presidential result.
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Date published: 9:00 am, November 10th, 2016 - 65 comments
How will history judge Barack Obama as president?
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 10th, 2016 - 82 comments
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Date published: 5:55 am, November 10th, 2016 - 269 comments
The Day After.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 9th, 2016 - 53 comments
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Date published: 11:51 am, November 9th, 2016 - 19 comments
A good day to dump bad news. Looks like RMA changes are back on agenda, courtesy of the Maori Party.
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Date published: 11:25 am, November 9th, 2016 - 10 comments
At the Labour Conference over the weekend, Grant Robertson announced the results of the Future of Work Commission. Ideas for policy to cope with a new age of work.
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Date published: 9:15 am, November 9th, 2016 - 126 comments
Andrea Vance has attacked Labour’s Ready to Work policy and claimed that the policy does not add up, despite being told how the figures had been arrived at.
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