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Date published: 6:00 am, April 7th, 2021 - 116 comments
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Date published: 7:57 pm, April 6th, 2021 - 10 comments
Kiri Allen has announced that she is receiving treatment for stage three cervical cancer.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 6th, 2021 - 19 comments
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Date published: 8:43 am, April 6th, 2021 - 42 comments
An announcement on the Trans Tasman bubble is expected this afternoon.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 6th, 2021 - 93 comments
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Date published: 12:21 pm, April 5th, 2021 - 17 comments
The New York Times is reporting that the Trump Campaign sucked in a whole lot of republican voters by asking for urgent donations but then treating them as regular rather than one off donations unless donors discovered and clicked on a well hidden check box.
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Date published: 9:09 am, April 5th, 2021 - 163 comments
Merchant Banker Troy Bowker has accused the Government of engaging in Socialist wealth redistribution ideology by not extending to landlords a state supported loan guarantee scheme and by implementing relatively modest wealth redistribution measures.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 5th, 2021 - 31 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 4th, 2021 - 33 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 3rd, 2021 - 83 comments
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Date published: 9:06 am, April 2nd, 2021 - 59 comments
Greta Thunberg is now aged 18. And her activism is still strong.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 2nd, 2021 - 80 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 1st, 2021 - 16 comments
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Date published: 7:16 am, April 1st, 2021 - 17 comments
Credible sources indicate that a Chris Penk-Simeon Brown ticket have the numbers for a National Party leadership spill and have started the process. Stand by for developments.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 1st, 2021 - 112 comments
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Date published: 9:28 pm, March 31st, 2021 - 26 comments
The SIS can’t help itself – it keeps getting involved in our politics, but stays resolutely one-eyed. As Sam Sachdeva of Newsroom reports, it has just released advice for politicians on how to avoid political interference. Maintaining ‘transparent’ secrecy, it uses its favourite journalists and academics to drop the necessary hints – look over here. […]
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 31st, 2021 - 26 comments
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Date published: 3:24 pm, March 31st, 2021 - 50 comments
Chris Trotter recently asked the question about why there isn’t more resistance to the degree of inequality that we face in New Zealand. He’s partially right, we do spend an awfully amount of time arguing with each other about matters of smaller and smaller moment while inequality slides downhill from glacier to avalanche. But intersectionalism isn’t the primary cause of activist cooling.
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Date published: 8:47 am, March 31st, 2021 - 5 comments
Auckland Council has released the Ports of Auckland Independent Health and Safety Report and the recommendations are damning.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 31st, 2021 - 100 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 30th, 2021 - 17 comments
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Date published: 7:48 am, March 30th, 2021 - 42 comments
Chris Luxon’s maiden speech last week and another example of multiple leaks of details of a caucus meeting highlight how precarious Judith Collins’ tenure as National Party leader is. But does someone have the numbers to replace her?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 30th, 2021 - 133 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 29th, 2021 - 46 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 29th, 2021 - 29 comments
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Date published: 10:39 am, March 28th, 2021 - 217 comments
Media has been abuzz with comment about how last election Grant Robertson has backtracked on a promise on not extending the bright line test. Should politicians stick to their pronouncements no matter what? Or should they change their minds if circumstances demand a change in course?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 28th, 2021 - 42 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 27th, 2021 - 130 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 26th, 2021 - 18 comments
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Date published: 7:49 am, March 26th, 2021 - 12 comments
Private member’s bills are an important feature of Parliament. They give all MPs the chance to change the law to address real or perceived issues and problems. So what does National MP Matt Doocey think is the country’s most pressing problem?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 26th, 2021 - 51 comments
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