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Date published: 6:00 am, December 24th, 2015 - 59 comments
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Date published: 3:57 pm, December 23rd, 2015 - 184 comments
The District Court has ruled in favour of Kim Dotcom being extradicted.
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Date published: 7:41 am, December 23rd, 2015 - 61 comments
There’s still a few MPs “on duty”. Their function is to maintain the semblance of active government and to roll out a bunch of announcements they hope will escape full scrutiny.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 23rd, 2015 - 133 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 22nd, 2015 - 116 comments
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Date published: 2:31 pm, December 21st, 2015 - 71 comments
“On 2 October last year the police raided our home and I had the hugely encouraging experience of watching hundreds of you coming to my aid on Givealittle: giving money and, just as important, sending kind messages and giving moral support. The financial support made it easy for us to decide to launch legal action…”
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Date published: 8:36 am, December 21st, 2015 - 177 comments
Video of John Key’s recent interview with The Rock.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 21st, 2015 - 76 comments
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Date published: 11:51 am, December 20th, 2015 - 211 comments
Rachel Stewart has penned an opinion piece highlighting John Key’s avoidance of serious media in preference to engaging in rude, crude and highly unattractive stunts on commercial radio.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 20th, 2015 - 157 comments
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Date published: 8:30 am, December 19th, 2015 - 35 comments
Ad discusses a phenomenon where Local Government is having a greater and greater effect on New Zealand’s development. But local politicians are having less and less effect.
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Date published: 7:00 am, December 19th, 2015 - 46 comments
Standardista authors are on summer break! There will be an Open Mike each day, but little or no other posting (unless an author feels particularly inspired). Here’s some summer reading suggestions – by all means add your own…
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 19th, 2015 - 75 comments
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Date published: 6:09 pm, December 18th, 2015 - 8 comments
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Date published: 8:35 am, December 18th, 2015 - 130 comments
Justice Clifford’s decision that the police raid of Nicky Hager’s home was illegal raises serious questions about what political pressure was applied on the police.
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Date published: 7:05 am, December 18th, 2015 - 104 comments
A guest post from McFlock on what we might do about poverty when the talking’s done.
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Date published: 7:02 am, December 18th, 2015 - 11 comments
I/S at No Right Turn did some excellent work yesterday on the scams that underly New Zealand’s claims to be meeting its emissions targets.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 18th, 2015 - 53 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 17th, 2015 - 20 comments
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Date published: 4:41 pm, December 17th, 2015 - 264 comments
“Wellington High Court judge Justice Clifford issued his judgement today on the legality of the police search of Nicky Hager’s home on 2 October 2014.
The judge found that the search was illegal.”…
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Date published: 12:36 pm, December 17th, 2015 - 11 comments
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Date published: 10:47 am, December 17th, 2015 - 154 comments
While there is a certain amusement value in having a performing monkey for a PM, his participation in the great rape jape yesterday was too far even for his fans.
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Date published: 8:07 am, December 17th, 2015 - 35 comments
Part two of Ad’s series where he asks if Christianity is actually a liberation theology and maybe Jesus was a leftie after all.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 17th, 2015 - 92 comments
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Date published: 8:57 pm, December 16th, 2015 - 32 comments
Crikey! My Little Ponytail meets the Parnell mind meld. Cancel Xmas, I’ve already got my pressie!
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 16th, 2015 - 22 comments
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Date published: 12:30 pm, December 16th, 2015 - 206 comments
John Key has tried to deflect from his government’s appalling record on child poverty with some throw-away nonsense about drugs. There are just three teeny tiny problems with that line…
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Date published: 9:20 am, December 16th, 2015 - 59 comments
Structural problems need structural solutions. Progress on this major public health issue has been set back by a decade because we elected a useless National government.
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Date published: 8:31 am, December 16th, 2015 - 74 comments
Ad proposes the theory that Jesus was actually a right winger.
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Date published: 7:46 am, December 16th, 2015 - 59 comments
Elected representatives in Woodland North Carolina were persuaded by arguments that solar panels were sucking up all of the sun’s energy, were preventing plants from photosynthesising and were causing cancer to ban a proposed solar panel farm.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 16th, 2015 - 63 comments
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