Open mike 05/09/2024
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Daily review 04/09/2024
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Shane Jones is obsessed with communists
Shane Jones has been getting into the news recently after his comment that High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn was a communist made at a private meeting was revealed in the media. He has been called out by Judith Collins and Winston Peters but surprisingly not by Christopher Luxon.
Willis’s Bungling of the Kiwirail Interislander Cancellation
Nicola Willis’s bungling of the Kiwirail Interislander project cancellation has so far cost Kiwis $1bn, but that’s not all. Today RNZ’s reporting reveals the government may have also undermined NZ’s relationship with South Korea.
Open mike 04/09/2024
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Daily review 03/09/2024
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National’s eternal road obsession
The year is 2035 and after the McAnaulty-Sepuloni Government is removed from power new National Prime Minister Simeon Brown makes his first new announcement. Guess what it is?
Open mike 03/09/2024
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Daily review 02/09/2024
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Let’s Talk About Tax
Yes, Labour can restore its woeful tax position.
Open mike 02/09/2024
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How can you forget $178,394 in campaign donations?
This is going to take some explaining. The police have decided to take no action against National MP David MacLeod for failing to declare $178,394 in electoral donations. No this is not an Onion headline.
Open mike 01/09/2024
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In memory of Norm Kirk
Today marks the day 50 years ago when former Labour Prime Minister Norm Kirk died.
About David Parker’s and Labour’s debate about taxation
Guest post by Nigel Haworth discussing recent publicity given to the Labour Party’s debate around tax reform.
Open mike 31/08/2024
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Daily review 30/08/2024
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Local Councils Defy Central Government Agenda
94% of councils that have voted vote to retain Maori wards. Many of them are National background Councillors and previously urged Central Government to not push ahead with the legislation. The forced local referendums are now expected to cost ratepayers and take away from Council workloads
What Happened in the House (Videos)
NZ Parliament sitting where Labour’s Kieran McAnulty implores the Coalition government to stop deceiving Kiwis, and Winston Peters and Louise Upton both get fired up. Meanwhile, Casey Costello still doesn’t know who wrote her tobacco Ministerial papers.
Open mike 30/08/2024
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Daily review 29/08/2024
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National’s solution to the housing crisis
Dan Bidois has unwittingly exposed that National has a list of well honed talking points that are used and repeated ad mauseum. Normally within context, sometimes not.
Open mike 29/08/2024
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Daily review 28/08/2024
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King Luxon Isn’t Wearing Any Clothes
While Luxon and Brown hand it to the Councils, a grassroots campaign is taking effect and the power is with the people. Warning: article contains satire.
Open mike 28/08/2024
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Daily review 27/08/2024
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Power and Speed
We are in a power crisis and the government has had to respond, but will their response make any difference?
Simeon Brown peddling porkies about gas shortage
Energy Minister Simeon Brown is peddling lies about a gas shortage. The country exports around 40 percent of its annual gas production as methanol. More is used to make synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, a nasty greenhouse emission source, for our farms. We don’t need expensive LNG distribution facilities while exporting the bulk of our own gas.
Open mike 27/08/2024
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Daily review 26/08/2024
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Is Casey Costello Corrupt?
Casey Costello and the Coalition government have already halved tobacco excise at a cost of up to $216mn. Today RNZ reports there remain more questions on who wrote her Ministerial papers begging for tobacco industry benefits.
Where Does Labour Rebuild?
It won’t come from the working class. But we know where it will come from.
Open mike 26/08/2024
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Government contributes to developing homeless crisis
There is increasing concern that recently introduced policy changes by National have made housing for the most needy amongst us more tenuous.
Roger Douglas Has a Lesson for the Left
Roger Douglas, the most revolutionary minister in the postwar history of Aotearoa, knew how to exert change in three years. Rogernomics transformed the economy with dizzying speed, from protectionist welfare state to a neoliberal free market. Elliot Crossan argues that the left needs to take the same approach to end the era of neoliberalism.