Open Mike 30/06/2026
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The cut to Total Mobility doesn’t add up
7 days after petitioning parliament seeking proper funding for Total Mobility, the government instead cut the funds.
Daily review 29/06/2026
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Chris Hipkins: Vote for hope and optimism over fear and division
Chris Hipkins’ speech at the Labour Party conference yesterday
Open Mike 29/06/2026
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Open Mike 28/06/2026
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With friends like NZ First …
This week Tama Potaka announced the Government will backtrack on a proposal that would have allowed for the sale of up to 60% of the country’s conservation land. But Shane Jones then completely undermined the announcement by talking about using Conservation land for mining.
The simple case for Universalism.
Yeah. Why don’t we means test education, health, sickness benefit, the military, disaster help, police…..?
Open Mike 27/06/2026
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Daily review 26/06/2026
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Talking to the “enemy”: an interview with Russian Ambassador Stanislav Krans
The reason I chose to interview the ambassador is because I accept as self-evident the truism that all wars end with diplomacy and the sooner we return to diplomacy the better.
Open Mike 26/06/2026
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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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