Open mike 13/10/2024
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Open mike 12/10/2024
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Latest poll result – National is being cleaned out by NZ First and Act
The latest Curia poll result suggests that National is tanking and NZ First and Act are eating into its support. And Luxon selling off his rental properties and saying that he does not care suggests he may be planning for an exit.
Daily review 11/10/2024
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The best Government that money can buy
Radio New Zealand has reported that $500,000 in donations to National, Act and NZ First were made by entities associated to those who had their projects included in the recently released schedule to the Fast Track Projects Bill.
Open mike 11/10/2024
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Daily review 10/10/2024
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Hurricane Milton: watching the climate train wreck in slow motion
Catastrophe and meaningful response.
Open mike 10/10/2024
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Daily review 09/10/2024
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Open mike 09/10/2024
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Daily review 08/10/2024
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How does the left win the Auckland Mayoralty?
I think the left should find a Mayoral candidate to advance progressive principles and policies. And with a muscular fight on the right there may be the opportunity for a candidate to come through the middle and win.
National is stuffing up health
The adding of extra costs to the Dunedin Hospital project to make it appear to be unaffordable, the reckless allowance for a tax cut for Philip Morris and the fudging of health figures to suggest there is a crisis all point to gross mismanagement of Health at a time when it is under stress. Is the goal privatisation?
Open mike 08/10/2024
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Daily review 07/10/2024
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Open mike 07/10/2024
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Where’s the “Oomph”?
Join us to protest privatisation of health on the 23rd October. But can we have more oomph and co-ordination please?
Open mike 06/10/2024
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Open mike 05/10/2024
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Daily review 04/10/2024
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She did her own research
It has been revealed that Casey Costello bypassed and second guessed official advice by an internet search and reading a collection of articles that do not way what she thought they said.
Inventing a crisis to privatise NZ healthcare
Yesterday a former Health NZ Chair said the government is intentionally manufacturing a crisis to privatise healthcare. However privatisation will not solve anything and will only lead to worse financial and health outcomes for all Kiwis as confirmed by Lancet Medical Journal and case studies around the world.
Open mike 04/10/2024
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Daily review 03/10/2024
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Open mike 03/10/2024
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Daily review 02/10/2024
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He is wealthy and he is sorted
“You just fake it until you make it. I have spent a whole career doing that” – Christopher Luxon.
NZ Right Wing Government Moves to Privatise Health
The National-ACT-NZ First government have signaled they want to privatise our health system. It’s a now or never moment.
Open mike 02/10/2024
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Daily review 01/10/2024
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When will Costello be sacked?
Casey Costello’s decision to give Phillip Morris a $216 million tax cut was based on alternative advice that she has received but which she is not disclosing. And Christopher Luxon is comfortable with this.
Open mike 01/10/2024
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Daily review 30/09/2024
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Submit as if your grandkids’ lives depend on it
The Government plans to smash through the reintroduction of off shore oil and gas drilling under some urgency and has given the people of New Zealand only five days to submit.
Open mike 30/09/2024
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