Open mike 08/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 8th, 2020 - 184 comments
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Clusterfuck
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Date published: 6:31 pm, July 7th, 2020 - 210 comments
Hamish Walker and Michelle Boag have admitted leaking private information about covid sufferers for political gain.
Daily review 07/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 7th, 2020 - 137 comments
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Open mike 07/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 7th, 2020 - 132 comments
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Daily review 06/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 6th, 2020 - 65 comments
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National’s dilemma – business as usual is failing them.
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Date published: 9:52 am, July 6th, 2020 - 99 comments
Audrey Young’s take in Granny Herald was interesting. “No ordinary Labour speech by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern”. That is because the political ‘business as usual’ approach by the business orientation of National campaigning using the politics of fear and envy doesn’t work well in times of crisis. Business simply has too short a viewpoint to be acceptable in government at present – or increasingly in our uncertain future.
Does National actually have any policy?
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Date published: 9:00 am, July 6th, 2020 - 66 comments
National has recently been upping the campaign rhetoric but there is a disturbing lack of policy detail.
Wellington buses now: how a local authority harmed public transport
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Date published: 7:27 am, July 6th, 2020 - 15 comments
Sure to form, Paul Swain along with Regional Council Chair and another former Labour MP Fran Wilde proposed tearing down the trolleybus wire and increasing the city’s carbon emission. This was to then promptly followed by re-tendering all the bus routes having redesigned all the bus network so that bus companies could then compete over routes and undercut each other. At one council meeting in mid-2016 Swain was questioned about the possibility of protecting drivers jobs and employment conditions. After a few questions, he lost patience, slammed in hand on the table and ended the meeting. This was the extent to which Swain and the Greater Wellington Regional Council considered supporting bus drivers during this process.
Open mike 06/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 6th, 2020 - 180 comments
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White Riot
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Date published: 2:43 pm, July 5th, 2020 - 11 comments
Love Music, Hate Racism? Here’s the film for you!
Jacinda’s address to the Labour Congress
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Date published: 1:57 pm, July 5th, 2020 - 40 comments
The text of Jacinda’s address delivered to the Labour Congress this afternoon.
National’s “intelligence unit” kicks into gear
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Date published: 9:01 am, July 5th, 2020 - 120 comments
A month ago a leak from National’s caucus said that they had set up an intelligence unit designed to dig up dirt on opponents. Yesterday Newshub ran a story based on a candidate’s seven year old tweets. It looks like the intelligence unit has been busy.
Open mike 05/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 5th, 2020 - 190 comments
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Open mike 04/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 4th, 2020 - 194 comments
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Daily review 03/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 3rd, 2020 - 41 comments
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Re-open New Zealand
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Date published: 10:23 am, July 3rd, 2020 - 82 comments
It is great to see former Prime Minister Helen Clark join the debate about re-opening New Zealand’s borders. We need it. There is no better time for New Zealand to re-launch itself to the world.
National wants to open up our borders, unless you are Indian, Pakistani or Korean
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Date published: 8:08 am, July 3rd, 2020 - 55 comments
National Backbench MP Hamish Walker has claimed that Queenstown is to be invaded by people from India, Pakistan and Korea when the reality is the Government is considering using empty Hotels for quarantining returning kiwis.
Green Party and No Right Turn on the RMA fast-track bill
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Date published: 7:05 am, July 3rd, 2020 - 8 comments
No Right turn on the undemocratic and Muldoonist nature of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020, and the Greens on why they opposed it and what they managed to get changed.
Open mike 03/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 3rd, 2020 - 145 comments
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The 2008 Go Wellington Bus Lockout
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Date published: 5:44 am, July 3rd, 2020 - 6 comments
20 days after being elected President of the Wellington Tramways and Public Passenger Transport Employees Union (we just called it Tramways), drivers at Go Wellington were locked out. The City nearly ground to a halt with thousands unable to get to work and traffic congestion a nightmare. Certain journalists were quick to call this a communist conspiracy.
Daily review 02/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 2nd, 2020 - 59 comments
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Minister Clark resigns
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Date published: 11:45 am, July 2nd, 2020 - 32 comments
David Clark has announced his resignation as Health Minister.
David Clark Resigns
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Date published: 11:28 am, July 2nd, 2020 - 146 comments
Health Minister David Clark has resigned.
Open mike 02/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 2nd, 2020 - 149 comments
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Looking the wrong way? The SIS in New Zealand
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Date published: 8:19 pm, July 1st, 2020 - 12 comments
Richard Northey and Nicky Hager will discuss their experiences with the SIS over the past thirty-five years, what they reveal about the agency’s values and culture, and what we might want to see in the forthcoming review of the intelligence and security agencies post the Christchurch mosque massacre. St Andrews Church, The Terrace, Wellington, Friday 3 July 5:30pm. All welcome, register here.
Daily review 01/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 1st, 2020 - 61 comments
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Open mike 01/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 1st, 2020 - 148 comments
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Muller is floundering
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Date published: 9:39 pm, June 30th, 2020 - 47 comments
Todd Muller had a bad day yesterday with adverse confidential National polling leaked to the media and with Grant Robertson and Winston Peters showing in the house that Muller’s denial that he had proposed opening up the border with China was simply not correct.
National’s Internal Polling Leaked
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Date published: 7:21 pm, June 30th, 2020 - 45 comments
The good ship Muller has sprung a leak. NewsHub are reporting that the National caucus has been told today that they are polling worse than under Simon Bridges.
Daily review 30/06/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 30th, 2020 - 59 comments
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