Open mike 26/04/2024
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New Zealand Needs a Security Alliance Fast
Who will defend us when the military chaos now expanding in the world finally hits hard in our region, because that is what is really happening.
Open mike 25/04/2024
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Daily review 24/04/2024
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Goneburger
As predicted 10 days ago the first Ministerial goneburger has occurred and it is Melissa Lee.
What does this Government have against the environment
It is almost as if the environment was really cruel to senior members of the Government when they were kids. But whatever the reason this Government appears to be intent on wrecking the local environment with a degree of vengeance and stupidity not seen before.
It’s not a culture war, it’s a class war, and the left should be naming it as such
The culture wars exist, and they are a tool weaponised in the class war.
Open mike 24/04/2024
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Daily review 23/04/2024
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Open mike 23/04/2024
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Daily review 22/04/2024
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Open mike 22/04/2024
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Joining US military alliance not in our national interest
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark – the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory – gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held in Parliament’s old Legislative Chambers on April 18.
The list
Making a major infrastructure deal happen takes years of planning, exceptionally qualified people on all sides, and in New Zealand it takes about ten years of your life. Until now.
The Liz Truss of the South Seas
Liz Truss’s short reign as UK Prime Minister foundered after her budget requiring borrowing to fund tax cuts was released. The budget tanked the UK economy and caused Truss’s resignation. This week amongst announcements of massive cuts it has emerged that the Government is also planning borrowing for tax cuts.
Open mike 21/04/2024
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Open mike 20/04/2024
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Daily review 19/04/2024
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How to slow down the Fast Track Bill
UPDATE: government forced to release the list of companies it wrote to about the Fast-Track application process.
Yesterday was the last day for submissions on the nature and society destroying Fast Track bill.
Open mike 19/04/2024
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Daily review 18/04/2024
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Open mike 18/04/2024
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Daily review 17/04/2024
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Towards Banana Republic Status
There is a bill before Parliament right now that has the potential of blowing a rather big hole in our reputation as an open and transparent democracy.
At least Chris Bishop sleeps in a well made bed
Having a decent home is a human right
Open mike 17/04/2024
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Daily review 16/04/2024
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Forget this Trump trial
In the Trump felony trial now underway, there’s a yawning gap between media attention paid to this and the actual scale of the […]
Stuff rescues Newshub
Hub.Stuff
Open mike 16/04/2024
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Daily review 15/04/2024
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The Cass Review reader: investigations into the treatment of gender dysphoric children and youth
The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.
It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.
Open mike 15/04/2024
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Iran launches missiles at Israel in retaliation for consulate strike in Damascus
Israel should not have bombed the Iranian consulate buildings in Damascus. Iran should not have fired 300 missiles at Israel in response. Neither of these actions should have happened, but they now have. The world now watches to see if there is further retaliation and escalation of violence, or if calmer and wiser heads prevail.
On Newshub and economic voice
Nigel Haworth writes on some of the historic implications and strategy of the worker plans for companies in the context of the worker initiated initiatives for allowing Newshub to survive.
The first Ministerial scalp?
Already we have what looks like an odds on favourite for the first Ministerial scalp.