Open mike 19/02/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 19th, 2019 - 160 comments
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Colmar Brunton Feb 2019
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Date published: 8:24 pm, February 18th, 2019 - 84 comments
Another poll, another sizzling result for Jacinda Ardern and the Coalition team. Mansplain that, Simon.
Daily review 18/02/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 18th, 2019 - 62 comments
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What China crisis?
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Date published: 12:58 pm, February 18th, 2019 - 52 comments
Claims that New Zealand is at a crisis point in terms of its relationship with China appear to be somewhat overegged.
Lock ’em Up!?
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Date published: 12:33 pm, February 18th, 2019 - 15 comments
Unionist and former MP Darien Fenton takes issue with a major weakness in our law. That’s the ability of guilty bosses to just ignore the rulings of the Employment Court. Can’t pay? Won’t pay!
Pike River mine evidence went missing
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Date published: 7:52 am, February 18th, 2019 - 74 comments
It has been alleged that a potentially vital piece of evidence in the Pike River mine fatality that may show the cause of the explosion may have gone missing.
Open mike 18/02/2019
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Date published: 7:13 am, February 18th, 2019 - 200 comments
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Open mike 17/02/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 17th, 2019 - 182 comments
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How To Get There 17/2/19
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Date published: 6:57 am, February 17th, 2019 - 145 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.
The NZ National Party is the Wizard of Oz
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Date published: 2:57 pm, February 16th, 2019 - 32 comments
The National Party is a sad, confused, slightly dazed white old man behind the curtain.
Walls and Bridges
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Date published: 11:56 am, February 16th, 2019 - 54 comments
It’s been a horror week for two leaders and a leader who will never be leader.
TRP casts a wary and weary eye over three political zombies whose time appears up.
And, oh, Jeremy Corbyn.
Blomfield beats Slater
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Date published: 9:58 am, February 16th, 2019 - 26 comments
Matt Blomfield has obtained judgment in his long running defamation case against Cameron Slater.
Open mike 16/02/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 16th, 2019 - 192 comments
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Daily review 15/02/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 15th, 2019 - 42 comments
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Open mike 15/02/2019
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Date published: 12:35 pm, February 15th, 2019 - 127 comments
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The end of tenure review
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Date published: 11:45 am, February 15th, 2019 - 29 comments
Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage has ended the policy of tenure review, under which large tracts of land were privatised and onsold for huge profits and sensitive ecological areas wrecked.
Dead cats and silly sausages
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Date published: 8:15 pm, February 14th, 2019 - 125 comments
Today in distractions: David Carter is covering for Simon Bridges’ polling results by upsetting the whole idea of non-partisan accountability of the Government to Parliament in select comittees, I give some free advice to the National Party comms team knowing they won’t pull it off, and Mallard has lost patience with non-answers
Daily review 14/02/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 14th, 2019 - 35 comments
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$58 billion verses democracy: Bouganville
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Date published: 8:30 am, February 14th, 2019 - 5 comments
There’s trouble on the horizon in Bouganville with its government proposing significant changes to its mining law to allow wide scale mining on the island.
Open Mike 14/02/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 14th, 2019 - 176 comments
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Can Sexism Save Simon’s Bacon?
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Date published: 9:26 pm, February 13th, 2019 - 115 comments
National Party in dick pick SHOCKER!!!
Yes, Simple Simon reveals his saucy side as he SHOWS US HIS SAUSAGE.
But is anyone biting?
Daily Review 13/02/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 13th, 2019 - 26 comments
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Spark vs Spooks
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Date published: 1:47 pm, February 13th, 2019 - 66 comments
Spark wants Huawei’s 5G technology because its the best and the cheapest. The GCSB spooks don’t want us to have it because 5Eyes and because the US has yanked their chain. The Prime Minister says no decision has been made – the media and the world think it is a goneburger. We should support New Zealand’s Spark, not US corporate interests.
National crashes select committee meeting
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Date published: 11:11 am, February 13th, 2019 - 208 comments
National has decided to play politics and sabotaged today’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee meeting.
Dear St Valentine
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Date published: 8:00 am, February 13th, 2019 - 25 comments
Deep in the perpetually joyous realm you inhabit, could you pop over and have a chat to St Francis? I am pretty sure that your spirit of spreading love throughout humanity is so necessary that if you did not exist we would have to invent you. But the speed and volume of the […]
The leader has my full support
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Date published: 7:39 am, February 13th, 2019 - 44 comments
National’s message discipline on support for Leader Simon Bridges is strangely missing.
Open Mike 13/02/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 13th, 2019 - 52 comments
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Pollwatch: 11/02/2019
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Date published: 10:12 pm, February 12th, 2019 - 18 comments
Kia ora koutou readers, and welcome back to the first Pollwatch of 2019, and as our official Worst News™ will tell you, (okay, maybe that’s my opinion of their recent coverage rather than an official thing) it’s a doozy. Part of the reason I started modelling elections probabilistically myself is that looking at just the […]
Daily review 12/02/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 12th, 2019 - 50 comments
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Should We Fear Judith Collins?
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Date published: 10:34 am, February 12th, 2019 - 130 comments
So, it turns out Simon’s a dud. What do the Tories do about it? And can Judith Collins really make a difference?
Climate change – the ongoing disaster
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Date published: 10:00 am, February 12th, 2019 - 32 comments
In my youth back in the late 1970s and early 80s, I did a BSc in Earth Sciences. I learned that our human framework of decades and centuries was but a blink of an eye to nature. Our period, that blink in time, is fast fading.
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