Daily review 25/06/2026
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Open Mike 25/06/2026
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Daily review 24/06/2026
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National panics with Kiwisaver announcement as polling crashes
National’s recent Kiwisaver announcement, expected to cost $110 million a year, only pays back some of the savings from its erlier Kiwisaver cuts expected to save $610 million a year, and appears to be signs ofincreasing panic.
Open Mike 24/06/2026
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No tears for Starmer
An MI6 plant in my opinion. A hollow man, deeply duplicitous, a Zionist warmonger whose only job was to expunge the Labour left. He will not be missed or regretted.
Daily review 23/06/2026
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Open Mike 23/06/2026
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Daily review 22/06/2026
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The Greens’ new tax policy: A tax system for all of us
“Enough is enough. No more tinkering around the edges. It’s time for the super-rich to pay their damn taxes”
Open Mike 22/06/2026
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The trouble with AI
Is AI the great savoiur for our civilisation? Or a fast track to environmental, social and economic devasation?
Open Mike 21/06/2026
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On Trump’s Temporary Fix In Iran
Trump has finally said what New Zealand has been too afraid to say about Israel’s bombing of residential areas in Lebanon, and in Gaza.
Open Mike 20/06/2026
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Daily review 19/06/2026
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Open Mike 19/06/2026
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Daily review 18/06/2026
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New Zealand pushes ahead with selling / exchanging 60% of its precious conservation estate
New Zealand pushes ahead to privatise conservation land, opening up almost 5 million hectares for sale and/or exchange
Open Mike 18/06/2026
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Daily review 17/06/2026
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The Alarming Echos between Trump and Luxon on elections
In the United States and in New Zealand the current administrations wish to speed up the finalisation of election results by supressing the right to vote.
Open Mike 17/06/2026
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Daily review 16/06/2026
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Open Mike 16/06/2026
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Daily review 15/06/2026
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National panics
It is strange for a party in power finishing its first term to call a media event on a Sunday just so it can attack the opposition. But this is what happened yesterday.
Open Mike 15/06/2026
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Which side is TOP on?
The Opportunity Party which has a suite of progressive policies thinks that it can work with National, even though National’s priorities should be an anathema to it.
Local Bodies: The myth of New Zealand’s economic backbone
If the farming sector is the ‘backbone of the economy’ then why is it that we are struggling to stand upright economically at the moment? Is it because agriculture is a economic drain on the rest of NZ. It provides 85% of our export revenue. But contributes just 5% of GDP, 5% of the workforce, and 1-3% of tax revenue – which effectively measures the profit to NZ.
Open Mike 14/06/2026
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Strike back against the Empire rally today
Notice about an anti war protest this afternoon at Aotea Square in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland.
Open Mike 13/06/2026
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Daily review 12/06/2026
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National intends to proceed with the LNG terminal and welch on the country’s Kyoto Protocol obligations
National, a party of supposed economic geniuses, will spend billions on an LNG terminal that is not needed, billions on roads of National significance whose business cases are appalling, and attack Labour for a policy that is cheap, will help ordinary people, reduce fuel dependancy and greenhouse gas emissions.
Open Mike 12/06/2026
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