Dear America Antifa is not the problem
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Date published: 12:19 pm, August 5th, 2019 - 52 comments
America has suffered two mass shootings of civilians in the past couple of days with at least one being committed by a white supremacist. But the Republican Party is fixated on Antifa, a loose organisation that has been implicated in no mass shootigns.
Arnhem Land and Ihumātao
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Date published: 8:28 am, August 5th, 2019 - 44 comments
A Recent High Court decision in Australia suggests that protection of indigenous land rights may be better than we think.
Open mike 05/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 5th, 2019 - 77 comments
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Can the Greens rise like the liberal democrats?
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Date published: 9:56 am, August 4th, 2019 - 71 comments
Only 6 months ago the UK Liberal Democrat party was at a real low, with their leader resigning and the polls about 7%: same as the last five years. Fast forward five months from that and they are ready to become a major opposition party of opposition. Can the Greens do the same?
How To Get There 4/8/19
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 4th, 2019 - 42 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 04/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 4th, 2019 - 114 comments
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Truth-telling and The New Climate Denial
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Date published: 2:03 am, August 4th, 2019 - 170 comments
James Shaw lays it out in his AGM speech: the new climate denial sounds reasonable and is the gravest danger we currently face.
Institutional poverty
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Date published: 12:34 pm, August 3rd, 2019 - 32 comments
Christchurch City Council have provided hundreds of social housing tenants with bubble wrap and a mop instead of insulating their houses.
Boris Johnson’s majority is disappearing
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Date published: 8:57 am, August 3rd, 2019 - 30 comments
in England the Conservatives have lost a safe seat in a by election to the SDP. And from Ireland comes a cunning plan that would obliterate Johnson’s majority.
Open mike 03/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 3rd, 2019 - 64 comments
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Memo from Crosby Textor – fake news
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Date published: 9:06 am, August 2nd, 2019 - 19 comments
The Standard has obtained an internal memo from CTF Partners (formerly Crosby Textor) where it responds to allegations that it is a kindergarden for the rich children of Conservative Party donors, has engaged in misogynist behavior and ran anti and pro cycle astroturf campaigns to get a cycleway moved from near a client’s business premises to near an opponent’s premises.
Open mike 02/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 2nd, 2019 - 144 comments
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Daily review 01/08/2019
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Date published: 5:52 pm, August 1st, 2019 - 68 comments
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Later Whaleoil
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Date published: 11:07 am, August 1st, 2019 - 66 comments
The Whaleoil blog has announced that there will be no new blog posts on the site.
Dutton engages in weaponised brutality
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Date published: 9:52 am, August 1st, 2019 - 63 comments
Australia is responding to New Zealand’s concern at the forced repatriation of New Zealand citizens from Australia who fall foul of the law by dramatically increasing the potential for this to occur.
Open mike 01/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 1st, 2019 - 98 comments
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Daily review 31/07/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 31st, 2019 - 40 comments
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The unbelievable lightness of Simon Bridges
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Date published: 11:49 am, July 31st, 2019 - 31 comments
Simon Bridges has insulted women and Tokelauans at the same time with a thinly veiled attack on Jacinda Ardern.
Simon – only good at the bottom of a cliff
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Date published: 8:03 am, July 31st, 2019 - 78 comments
The interview between Jack Tame and Simon Bridges was revealing. Circumlocutions and the wheedling of a conniving prosecutor around the National party hypocrisy over cancer drugs. Making a token amount towards funding super-expensive cancer drugs – but don’t want to deal with root causes or prevention of cancer? It beggars belief that this fool is a politician.
Ihumātao
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Date published: 7:32 am, July 31st, 2019 - 119 comments
The background to the Ihumatao dispute is complex and problematic and resolving it may require the Government to review issues relating to privately held land and treaty claims.
Open mike 31/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 31st, 2019 - 58 comments
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Daily review 30/07/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 30th, 2019 - 46 comments
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National’s cynical cancer policy announcement
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Date published: 10:59 am, July 30th, 2019 - 104 comments
National has announced a new Cancer Agency to replace the agency it closed four years ago to be funded from within already overstretched Health budgets.
Open mike 30/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 30th, 2019 - 128 comments
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Daily review 29/07/2019
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Date published: 5:48 pm, July 29th, 2019 - 78 comments
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Embark 2019
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Date published: 8:05 am, July 29th, 2019 - 99 comments
Last week the Embark 2019 conference involved corporations discussing what they can do to address climate change.
Open mike 29/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 29th, 2019 - 249 comments
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Jacindamania
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Date published: 8:01 am, July 28th, 2019 - 138 comments
Despite the babies and the engagements, maybe it’s time to ditch the default Jacindamania.
How To Get There 28/7/19
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 28th, 2019 - 72 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 28/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 28th, 2019 - 90 comments
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Open mike 27/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 27th, 2019 - 152 comments
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