The hidden infrastructure fiscal crisis gets real
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Date published: 8:19 am, April 10th, 2018 - 245 comments
Steven Joyce’s $11.7 billion fiscal hole is becoming more and more of a reality although it is in hidden infrastructure costs that National had suppressed in search of the elusive surplus.
immigration profiling
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Date published: 8:00 am, April 10th, 2018 - 43 comments
A data modelling programme that includes race and ethnicity as factors for consideration is a bad idea.
Open Mike 10/04/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 10th, 2018 - 167 comments
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Daily Review 09/04/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 9th, 2018 - 28 comments
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Mike Hosking reckons: Minimum wage increase will be terrible for everyone
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Date published: 9:55 am, April 9th, 2018 - 159 comments
Mike Hosking reckons that an increase in the minimum wage will increase housing unaffordability and cause job losses and business closures.
free-to-air sports
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Date published: 8:30 am, April 9th, 2018 - 45 comments
The comprehensive Commonwealth Games coverage on free-to-air TV is refreshing and something we need to see a lot more of.
Explaining is losing (but only in politics)
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Date published: 6:24 am, April 9th, 2018 - 48 comments
Politics is war by other means and nobody likes losing.
Open Mike 09/04/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 9th, 2018 - 152 comments
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Green Party female co-leader announcement: Marama Davidson (updated)
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Date published: 10:47 am, April 8th, 2018 - 208 comments
Marama Davidson is the new female co-leader. Speech and transcript, with a bit of analysis of what this means for the party and NZ politics.
Labour speaks up.
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Date published: 9:50 am, April 8th, 2018 - 5 comments
Partial transcript of a speech as reported in “The Independent”
Doofus of the week – April 7, 2018
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Date published: 8:00 am, April 8th, 2018 - 17 comments
Another easy decision. Gerry Brownlee wins for overseeing a $210 million blow out in EWC’s liability for Christchurch earthquake re-repair work and for being upset when Megan Woods called him on it.
Open Mike 08/04/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 8th, 2018 - 170 comments
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Ardern was right to hold back on Russia
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Date published: 9:30 am, April 7th, 2018 - 88 comments
Remember two weeks ago when Jacinda Ardern’s handling of the Russian poisoning scandal was considered to be a major misstep? Well with the benefit of hindsight it appears to have been a very balanced nuanced response to an incident that is not as clear cut as it was presented.
North Korea redux
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Date published: 8:30 am, April 7th, 2018 - 14 comments
Does being incoherent work sometimes? With the President of North Korea visiting China for the first time, meeting with the South Korean President for the first time, and preparing to meet with the Japanese President and with the President of the United States, was Trump’s approach actually right for the circumstances?
Open Mike 07/04/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 7th, 2018 - 342 comments
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Daily Review 06/04/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 6th, 2018 - 21 comments
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Gaza
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Date published: 10:46 am, April 6th, 2018 - 69 comments
Is it the new by-word for silence?
Regrets, John Key’s had a few *
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Date published: 8:00 am, April 6th, 2018 - 43 comments
or more accurately one. A failed vanity flag referendum.
National’s strong economic management …
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 6th, 2018 - 47 comments
Between the crisis facing Middlemore Hospital’s buildings and the farce surrounding the cost of repairs of repairs of the Canterbury rebuild, National’s claim that it is a party of strong economic management looks at least misguided.
Open Mike 06/04/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 6th, 2018 - 188 comments
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Daily Review 05/04/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 5th, 2018 - 50 comments
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Tax is violence
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Date published: 1:24 pm, April 5th, 2018 - 56 comments
Can we please now save David Seymour from his violent oppression and relieve him of his tax-funded salary?
Northland politicians want to drop more trucks into Auckland
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Date published: 6:24 am, April 5th, 2018 - 75 comments
Politik reports that some mayors from Northalnd are upset that they aren’t going to get a four lane boondoggle to feed more heavy trucks into traffic chaos that is the Auckland isthmus. They can stick their trucks up their body cavity of choice and learn to love rail. We don’t need more traffic in Auckland until we fix the disaster that National have left us.
Open Mike 05/04/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 5th, 2018 - 197 comments
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Daily Review 04/04/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 4th, 2018 - 53 comments
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Labour aims to make transport system more sustainable
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Date published: 1:03 pm, April 4th, 2018 - 89 comments
The Government has released a draft Government Policy Statement on Transport for consultation. A radical shake up of the Transport system is being proposed.
Still in Denial.
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Date published: 9:12 am, April 4th, 2018 - 46 comments
General Tim Keating’s resignation.
Open Mike 04/04/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 4th, 2018 - 155 comments
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Daily Review 03/04/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 3rd, 2018 - 73 comments
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This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
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Date published: 9:00 am, April 3rd, 2018 - 29 comments
Make of this what you will.
The Largesse
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 3rd, 2018 - 51 comments
April the first and second mark the days when those receiving entitlements receive a yearly increase in line with the CPI and the governments increase to Accommodation Supplement also comes into effect. So what does it all mean for those receiving entitlements?
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