Open mike 26/02/2024
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What’s Left?
From Election 2023’s result through to February 2024 there has been massive loss and damage to the Parliamentary capacity of Labour and Greens. Who still has the capacity to lead? What’s left?
About the promoters electoral returns
The Electoral Commission has released the major promoters’ electoral returns. These show significant amounts of money being spent on getting Labour unelected but give no detail about how the campaigns were funded.
Open mike 25/02/2024
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The problem with corporate money in electorate campaigns
The 2023 candidate election returns have released and it has emerged that Bathurst Resources Ltd contributed $32,600 to Patrick Phelps, who ran a spoiler campaign against Damian O’Connor in West Coast Tasman.
Open mike 24/02/2024
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Daily review 23/02/2024
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Open mike 23/02/2024
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Daily review 22/02/2024
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Open mike 22/02/2024
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Daily review 21/02/2024
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RIP Efeso Collins
Very sad news today with news of Fa’anana Efeso Collins’ untimely death.
Go well Grant Robertson
Yesterday it was announced that Grant Robertson was leaving politics.
Open mike 21/02/2024
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Daily review 20/02/2024
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Bene bashing 6.0
So what does National do when its minor support party tries to steal media attention with dog whistling racism? It reverts to some good old beneficiary bashing.
Open mike 20/02/2024
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About the One News Poll
The latest One News Verian poll suggests that there has been absolutely no honeymoon for the Government.
Daily review 19/02/2024
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Open mike 19/02/2024
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Open mike 18/02/2024
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Where Oz goes, we go? To war with China?
Testifying to the Defence Select Committee last week, Air Marshal Short said Australia was “reshaping” its Defence Force for “a singular threat from a singular direction.” This was described as being an obvious reference to China.
Get ready for your water to be privatised
The National Government’s repeal of the Three Waters Legislation and its pursuit of “new forms of infrastructure funding and financing” suggests that privatisation of water is on the drawing board.
Open mike 17/02/2024
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Daily review 16/02/2024
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Open mike 16/02/2024
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Daily review 15/02/2024
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Open mike 15/02/2024
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Daily review 14/02/2024
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Open mike 14/02/2024
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A sad lament from the serial left
Attacking leftists attempts to expose the Atlas Network of right-wing think tanks, Chris Trotter offers this gem “Morally speaking, is taking money from oil companies really all that distinguishable from giving money to oil companies every time we fill up our petrol tank?”
National and the Gutting of Local Democracy
We have remarkably little democracy left in New Zealand.
Daily review 13/02/2024
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A Trump-led Withdrawal from NATO
Just as he did in 2017, Trump is clear in 2023 that the United States should withdraw from NATO.
Open mike 13/02/2024
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Daily review 12/02/2024
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