Daily review 12/02/2024
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Who are the four lobbyists with Parliamentary swipe cards?
National has trashed its comment last terms that lobbyists should not have special access rights by handing out four swipe cards to lobbyists and refusing to say who they are.
Open mike 12/02/2024
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The apparatus behind the curtain – Part 2: The mainline
In a guest post Seddonville Miner explores links between the Atlas Network and the Taxpayer’s Union.
The Subs and the Next War
In March 2023, former Australian prime minister Paul Keating attracted significant media attention when he described AUKUS as a manifestation of the United States’s campaign to encircle China with hostile military allies and partners.
Should America elect a well intentioned but hapless President or an evil and dangerous President?
Robert Hur, the Republican prosecutor investigating President Biden’s retention of classified documents has concluded he should not face trial because he was “well-intentioned, but sometimes hapless and forgetful”.
Alex Foulkes To Stand For Green Party Co-Leader
Faulkes describes himself as a staunch Eco-Socialist and trade unionist
Open mike 11/02/2024
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Simeon Brown works to make transport system less sustainable
This week we have seen National confirm it will cancel the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax and this will cause the cancellation or suspension of many projects designed to address congestion. And it has been confirmed that axing the clean car discount has seen sales of electric vehicles plummet. And that electric vehicles will shortly pay more to use the road than petrol vehicles.
Open mike 10/02/2024
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Daily review 09/02/2024
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Open mike 09/02/2024
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Daily review 08/02/2024
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Laura Norda strikes again
National has announced the cancellation of funding for Cultural Reports because of the cost and the abandonment of Labour’s plan to decrease the muster despite the cost.
Open mike 08/02/2024
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Daily review 07/02/2024
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Toitu te Tiriti
Recent events have shown overwhelming support for the treaty among Iwi, the willingness for David Seymour to create chaos for political advantage, and that Christopher Luxton is not in control of the Government.
Open mike 07/02/2024
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Daily review 06/02/2024
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Ratana and The Treaty of Waitangi
“My understanding is a guy came out as a prophet of his own religious movement in the 1870s. And politicians feel a strange obligation to be there every year. I’ve never felt that.” David Seymour is shallow as a birdbath.
Open mike 06/02/2024
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Daily review 05/02/2024
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A modest proposal on Waitangi day
While the Treaty of Waitangi continues to be battered back and forth, the clear reality is that Maori, after signing the infuriating Treaty, were systematically dispossessed of their land. Any reading of the history of colonial treaties shows that treaties were the primary method of dispossession and were designed to be broken. And invariably they were.
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog Many question the value of the performing arts and drama. At the start of 2024, the ITV […]
Open mike 05/02/2024
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The “New Zealand model” for prostitution liberalisation doesn’t work
The Women’s Rights Party New Zealand and the Women’s Declaration International – New Zealand recently made a joint submission to Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
Open mike 04/02/2024
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes is an in-depth study of the human condition by Jim Jarmusch.
Open mike 03/02/2024
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Daily review 02/02/2024
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Which party are “we” bringing food to, Judith?
War with China? Or cocktails with the Colonels? I haven’t got the invitations, but I’m a no for both.
The Apparatus behind the Curtain
The release from the Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa around tobacco industry interference was a glimpse behind the curtain into a troubling reality.
It has been a long week for Casey Costello
Recent disclosure of the actions of associate Minister of Health Casey Costello raises the extraordinary possibility that British American Tobacco may be having an undue influence on the setting of the Government’s smoking policies.
Open mike 02/02/2024
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Daily review 01/02/2024
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ACT’s performative FedFoke virtual signalling
Take your dirty boots off at the door ya numpties.