Open mike 13/12/2024
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Daily review 12/12/2024
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Clusterfreak
Yesterday’s replacement ferry announcement by Nicola Willis suggests that very little progress has been made in securing replacement Cook Island ferries.
Open mike 12/12/2024
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Daily review 11/12/2024
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Foreign interference Bill ‘repressive tool’ to intimidate public: former minister
New Zealand is set to update sedition and espionage laws, making these as harsh as those of other Western states that are now gearing up for war with Russia and China.
The unusual feature of Taxpayers Union’s latest Curia poll
Unlike two other recent polls the latest Taxpayer’s Union poll reports a surge to Act happening during the time the Treaty Principles Bill was introduced.
Atlas Network in New Zealand
The similarities between the Atlas Network modus operandi and our government’s policies appear strident and unsettling.
Open mike 11/12/2024
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Daily review 10/12/2024
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Open mike 10/12/2024
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Daily review 09/12/2024
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Open mike 09/12/2024
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Open mike 08/12/2024
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Maire Leadbeater “The Enemy Within”
With extensive use of internal documents, Maire Leadbeater’s excellent exposition of the various iterations of the security intelligence services tells a story of constant make-work in search of an adversary defined only by ideology.
Are Lester Levy and Shane Reti “cooking the books?”
See for yourself.
Unacceptable
It appears that the Government’s intent to politicise youth offending by making an elite few dress up in army uniforms and march around in an effort to solve a lifetime of neglect is not working out so well.
Open mike 07/12/2024
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Daily review 06/12/2024
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Open mike 06/12/2024
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Daily review 05/12/2024
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Tax and the Splintering World
The resurgence of the tax debate reflects impacts of neo-liberal economic policy and developments in the global economy over the last half century. As Labour considers further its approach to tax policy, this wider context should be considered
Creative accounting
It has emerged that Health NZ attempted to include hundreds of millions of dollars in redundancies and holiday pay remediation chargeable this year in last year’s Health accounts and this would have made the current deficit smaller but last year’s deficit larger.
Open mike 05/12/2024
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AT is to be gutted
The Government announced reform of AT, effectively conceding that the behemouth National created in 2010 was the wrong structure.
Daily review 04/12/2024
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Luxon Takes A Beating
Five recent polls show that Kiwis are tired of the Coalition government, but will the trendline hold?
Open mike 04/12/2024
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Daily review 03/12/2024
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Open mike 03/12/2024
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Daily review 02/12/2024
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Electric Shock
New Zealand is one of the slowest countries in the developed world to transition from combustion to electric vehicles. The shocks we are seeing in Europe to car makers and car buyers herald more trouble ahead.
Open mike 02/12/2024
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Hipkins’ Conference speech
Text of Chris Hipkins’ speech to the 2024 Labour Party Conference.
Open mike 01/12/2024
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Curia exited RANZ because Family First are unbalanced
David Farrar’s company Curia abruptly exited the Research Association of New Zealand (RANZ) in August. It was triggered by a complaint about the fairness of the wording of a question in a April poll. This was a really bad poll, and this question a particularly egregious breach of any fairness. The question was paid for by Family Fi(r)st.