National is pinning 2020 success on someone who is not in Parliament

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Date published: 10:24 am, June 22nd, 2019 - 135 comments

An expensive advertising campaign suggesting that Christopher Luxon could be the next Prime Minister after the 2020 election has appeared.

Open mike 22/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 22nd, 2019 - 226 comments

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Daily review 21/06/2019

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Date published: 5:50 pm, June 21st, 2019 - 61 comments

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Results matter

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Date published: 9:34 am, June 21st, 2019 - 29 comments

Everyone knows that getting employers to increase rates of pay and improve conditions of work takes real pressure and the only real way working people can exert pressure, in the unbalanced relationship that exists between individual employees and employers, is by acting together; collectively. And that’s what we’ve been doing week in, week out and getting real results.

National is really worried that people may vote

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Date published: 8:33 am, June 21st, 2019 - 95 comments

Nick Smith has complained that making it easier for people to vote by allowing them to enrol on election day will disadvantage the National Party.

Open mike 21/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 21st, 2019 - 182 comments

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Daily review 20/06/2019

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 20th, 2019 - 36 comments

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The desert that is the NZ Herald in the morning

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Date published: 8:48 am, June 20th, 2019 - 19 comments

This morning read at 0645 it was the New York Times with a subscription, BBC World which doesn’t need one, Sydney Morning Herald without one, NZ Herald without a subscription, Stuff doesn’t need one, Huff Post which also doesn’t need one, and the Guardian which I toss change to on a periodic basis. The NZ Herald absolutely sucks and doesn’t deserve a premium.

National’s next leader?

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Date published: 7:53 am, June 20th, 2019 - 112 comments

Retiring Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon has indicated that he is interested in a political career and is being talked about as National’s next leader.

Open mike 20/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 20th, 2019 - 86 comments

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Daily review 19/06/2019

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 19th, 2019 - 51 comments

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Facebook is planning crypto currency service – what could possibly go wrong?

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Date published: 9:38 am, June 19th, 2019 - 15 comments

The corporation that has become renowned as the purveyor of fake news and the underminer of elections is planning to roll out a crypto currency service.

Greenland is melting – faster

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Date published: 9:17 am, June 19th, 2019 - 82 comments

Greenland holds a large store of fresh water. If fully melted, it will raise sea levels by roughly 7 metres. It is melting – fast. Last week, temperatures across Greenland about 22 degrees Celsius warmer than the normal for that time of year. It produced an extraordinary visual effect of dogs walking on water through surface melt over sea ice.

Open mike 19/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 19th, 2019 - 98 comments

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Daily review 18/06/2019

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 18th, 2019 - 17 comments

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Bankers gonna bank

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Date published: 8:09 am, June 18th, 2019 - 117 comments

The former head of ANZ and the current owner of John Key’s Omaha property, David Hisco, has left the employment of the Bank in somewhat newsworthy circumstances.

Open mike 18/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 18th, 2019 - 226 comments

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Daily review 17/06/2019

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Date published: 5:34 pm, June 17th, 2019 - 52 comments

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Flact Tax

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Date published: 7:54 am, June 17th, 2019 - 175 comments

Act has proposed a tax increase for the bottom 64% of all tax payers.

Open mike 17/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 17th, 2019 - 73 comments

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What have Unions ever done for freeloaders?

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Date published: 8:39 am, June 16th, 2019 - 198 comments

Two teachers who support individual contracts and performance pay are upset that they are not going to immediately get the benefit the Teachers Unions negotiated for their members.

The Hong Kong protest worked

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Date published: 8:22 am, June 16th, 2019 - 20 comments

Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, has permanently suspended the legislative proposal to enable extradition of Hong Kong people to among other places mainland China.

How To Get There 16/6/19

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 16th, 2019 - 68 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 16/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 16th, 2019 - 79 comments

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The freedom to insult

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Date published: 5:37 pm, June 15th, 2019 - 149 comments

David Seymour is proposing a law change that would protect neo nazis from the effects of their hate speech unless the speech also incited or threatened violence.

Open mike 15/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 15th, 2019 - 280 comments

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Daily review 14/06/2019

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 14th, 2019 - 28 comments

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Mark Richardson wants to be a Nat MP

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Date published: 8:17 am, June 14th, 2019 - 102 comments

Mark Richardson thinks he may have a future career and will be able to transform from overpaid TV personality to overpaid public representative.

Open mike 14/06/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, June 14th, 2019 - 199 comments

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Daily review 13/06/2019

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Date published: 5:57 pm, June 13th, 2019 - 20 comments

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Farewell Mr Makhlouf

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Date published: 12:39 pm, June 13th, 2019 - 46 comments

Gabriel Makhlouf will be remembered because of events surrounding the unauthorised access of Treasury information by National. History should result in him being remembered for more positive things, like the creation of a new framework that has restructured how the government spends public money from the ground up.

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