IT doESN’t aDD up
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Date published: 7:49 am, August 10th, 2020 - 57 comments
For a few days now Gerry Brownlee has been peddling this dog whistle conspiracy campaign that the Government is hiding bad news about Covid and we should all be really concerned.
Covid recovery and bouncing forward
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Date published: 6:05 am, August 10th, 2020 - 21 comments
Central to the Transition movement from the outset has been the idea of resilience. Usually framed as the ability to ‘bounce back’, it is seen in the Transition movement as being better imagined as the capacity to ‘bounce forward’, i.e. to use it as the opportunity to move forward to something better. How then to ‘bounce forward’ from COVID-19 in such a way that we also move to a way of doing things consistent with the scale of the climate crisis?
Open mike 10/08/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 10th, 2020 - 82 comments
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National’s list
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Date published: 12:50 pm, August 9th, 2020 - 23 comments
National’s list has now been released and highlights selection problems that it has had this year.
NZ First is in trouble in Northland
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Date published: 11:19 am, August 9th, 2020 - 70 comments
More bad news for NZ First. It looks like their hope that Northland could provide a get out of jail free card is misplaced.
Open mike 09/08/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2020 - 200 comments
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July 2020 Roy Morgan Poll
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Date published: 7:11 pm, August 8th, 2020 - 45 comments
The latest Roy Morgan poll is out.
Crusher?
Crushed!
Jacinda’s speech to the Labour campaign launch
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Date published: 5:09 pm, August 8th, 2020 - 94 comments
Jacinda Ardern’s speech to the Labour 2020 campaign launch.
Open mike 08/08/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2020 - 209 comments
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Daily review 07/08/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 7th, 2020 - 31 comments
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The return of John Key
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Date published: 11:10 am, August 7th, 2020 - 110 comments
In a sign of desperation National has trotted out John Key to campaign that the country’s success in containing Covid should be put to risk because of a misguided perception that it would be good for the economy.
James Shaw, comedian
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Date published: 10:35 am, August 7th, 2020 - 21 comments
A bit of shade, some Dad jokes, and the serious business of what the Greens have done.
Open mike 07/08/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 7th, 2020 - 239 comments
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Daily review 06/08/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 6th, 2020 - 47 comments
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The fragility of our food supply
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Date published: 11:11 am, August 6th, 2020 - 98 comments
As climate, ecological, pandemic and neoliberal pressures put our food security at risk, we can take heart from the many people who have been developing and practicing sustainable and resilient food growing.
The Covid election
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Date published: 7:40 am, August 6th, 2020 - 73 comments
I normally do not do this, tempting fate and all that. But the forces behind this election are so strong that it would take a really dramatic event to change current momentum.
Open mike 06/08/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2020 - 212 comments
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Daily review 05/08/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 5th, 2020 - 38 comments
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The test of MMP
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Date published: 12:20 pm, August 5th, 2020 - 123 comments
With the left’s political fortunes having changed greatly in the past three years, and with more change on the way, does the left still want MMP?
Who are you going to trust with your job, Jacinda or Judith?
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Date published: 12:17 pm, August 5th, 2020 - 16 comments
Defying expectations official labour force data from Stats NZ released today shows that the unemployment rate dropped to 4 per cent from 4.2 per cent in the June quarter.
National’s policy platform
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Date published: 8:35 am, August 5th, 2020 - 45 comments
For a party that promised to be a policy factory National’s policy offerings are severely deficient.
Go Well Ruth Dyson
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Date published: 7:44 am, August 5th, 2020 - 10 comments
Ruth Dyson has given a very funny very incisive valedictory speech in Parliament and will bow out of politics at this election. She deserves our thanks.
Open mike 05/08/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 5th, 2020 - 108 comments
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Daily review 04/08/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 4th, 2020 - 34 comments
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Falling into a coma
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Date published: 7:20 am, August 4th, 2020 - 92 comments
Why have we fallen into the most boring and predictable election we’ve had since Bolger’s second term?
Taxpayers’ Union promoting Green Party policy
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Date published: 6:10 am, August 4th, 2020 - 26 comments
Learning to love the tax.
Open mike 04/08/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 4th, 2020 - 70 comments
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Daily review 03/08/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 3rd, 2020 - 36 comments
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National seats at risk in Auckland
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Date published: 1:54 pm, August 3rd, 2020 - 33 comments
National has a crop of new candidates in Auckland all wanting to be in Parliament. But judging by what has happened so far you have to wonder if there are further allegations that may emerge which may ankle tap carefully stage managed campaigns.
National’s Auckland Central problem
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Date published: 8:27 am, August 3rd, 2020 - 45 comments
National is facing another PR disaster with reports of an increasingly hostile Auckland Central candidate selection process and with allegations that National’s head office has misapplied the party’s constitution.
Open mike 03/08/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 3rd, 2020 - 88 comments
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