Open mike 21/04/2020
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Date published: 6:30 am, April 21st, 2020 - 193 comments
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Guest post – is it safe to lower the lockdown level?
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Date published: 10:41 am, April 20th, 2020 - 58 comments
Guest post by Karl Sinclair on what needs to be addressed before the country can be safely lifted out of lockdown.
New electorate boundaries
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Date published: 9:05 am, April 20th, 2020 - 37 comments
I missed it, but we got the new electorate boundaries on Friday. Now electorate boundaries simply don’t matter as much as they used to because of MMP. These days mostly the only people who notice them are electorate MPs, political parties that are too close to the 5% list party boundary, and of course sock-puppet parties like Act and their National party hand. Plus of course political blog sites.
Covid-19 decision day
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Date published: 8:42 am, April 20th, 2020 - 172 comments
Decision day for the Covid-19 lockdown and my personal view is that although the country has done well it is not quite in a position to ease the lockdown.
Open mike 20/04/2020
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Date published: 8:05 am, April 20th, 2020 - 99 comments
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Greens push for large intercity rail infrastructure to ensure sustainable post-COVID-19 rebuild
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Date published: 10:26 am, April 19th, 2020 - 122 comments
“The Greens are highlighting fast intercity rail improvements as the type of climate-friendly, job-creating project that should be prioritised for post-COVID-19 economic stimulus investment.”
Open mike 19/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 19th, 2020 - 262 comments
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Don’t plan on a vaccine or persistent natural immunity.
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Date published: 3:42 pm, April 18th, 2020 - 93 comments
Don’t plan on a vaccine or persistent natural immunity. Unless we’re incredibly lucky, neither are very likely for much of the coming decade. We don’t have the bat immunity systems. Learn to embrace the bets of the future rather than the clinging to the comfy blanket of the past that has now gone.
Time to Pivot?
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Date published: 12:42 pm, April 18th, 2020 - 11 comments
It would appear NZ and much of the rest of the world has made a first rather coincidental step on the AGW front.
The plan for Monday
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Date published: 9:43 am, April 18th, 2020 - 30 comments
Even if New Zealand gets out of the immediate Covid-19 infection better than most other countries, the result is still a wrecked world and a slow recovery. What we face is something like an Australian firefighter with a hose and a tanker facing an onrushing wall of flame: they successfully dampen down a defined circle […]
Open mike 18/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 18th, 2020 - 171 comments
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The Green Party list
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Date published: 7:10 am, April 17th, 2020 - 73 comments
The Green’s initial party list has three new candidates in the top ten.
Open mike 17/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 17th, 2020 - 302 comments
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A little relief.
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Date published: 2:56 pm, April 16th, 2020 - 66 comments
Level 3 restrictions
Open mike 16/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 16th, 2020 - 247 comments
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Matthew’s Magic Numbers
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Date published: 7:15 pm, April 15th, 2020 - 43 comments
Matthew Hooton has tweeted a series of numbers. They add up to good news for the Government.
UPDATE: Curia Polling reckons it’s even better for Labour!
A response from the Rosa Luxemburg wing of the Labour Party
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Date published: 3:55 pm, April 15th, 2020 - 60 comments
According to Stephen Mills on Nine to Noon yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation as Labour leader will only be mourned by “the microscopic Rosa Luxemburg-worshipping far left sect in New Zealand.” His outburst was deliberate, gratuitous and way over the top.
Lockdown 4 – do we stay or do we go?
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Date published: 8:37 am, April 15th, 2020 - 147 comments
Over the next few days there will be an intense public debate about whether the lockdown should be continued or loosened.
No Right Turn: Climate Change – the need for a green recovery
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Date published: 7:05 am, April 15th, 2020 - 7 comments
The Climate Change Commission – the expert panel tasked with getting New Zealand carbon neutral – has written to the government asking it to apply a “climate change lens” to the post-Covid-19 spend-up.
How Not to Engage in Public Debate
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 15th, 2020 - 95 comments
The best way to engage in public debate on the lockdown is to be open, clear, and transparent and show the facts. A press release full of beliefs and reckons is unhelpful and irresponsible.
What we were doing wasn’t working.
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Date published: 6:32 am, April 15th, 2020 - 112 comments
After the lockdown, it is tempting to try and go back to what we had before. To the familiar and comfortable, especially for us that were comfortable. Forgetting that for so many, things were anything but, comfortable. That won’t be happening. “Before” no longer exists.
Open mike 15/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 15th, 2020 - 91 comments
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What Is This Moment Teaching Us?
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Date published: 12:15 pm, April 14th, 2020 - 53 comments
What is Covid-19 telling us about our response as a nation?
Better footpaths and cycleways are a socialist inspired plot?
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Date published: 8:06 am, April 14th, 2020 - 65 comments
National MP Simon O’Connor thinks that making under used streets safer for walkers and cyclers is a Socialist inspired plan for world domination.
Are the Vultures Already Circling Above?
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 14th, 2020 - 116 comments
We cannot go back to business as usual after the lockdown but can we shape the way things will be for the greater good?
Open mike 14/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 14th, 2020 - 183 comments
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Open mike 13/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 13th, 2020 - 205 comments
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Please sort this out MoH
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Date published: 1:18 pm, April 12th, 2020 - 85 comments
Frontline home care workers and their clients still don’t have adequate protection from covid.
Greenpeace’s Green Covid Response
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Date published: 10:34 am, April 12th, 2020 - 77 comments
Oil giant OMV finally leave New Zealand, and Greenpeace releases its Green Covid Response plan to the government.
Open mike 12/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 12th, 2020 - 236 comments
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New Zealand’s poor in this new crisis
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Date published: 9:16 am, April 11th, 2020 - 126 comments
Covid 19 is not some great leveller. To succeed the state has to completely redirect the economy to so that ordinary workers and working families are supported.
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