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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 22nd, 2018 - 34 comments
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Date published: 12:16 pm, March 22nd, 2018 - 193 comments
Jonathan Coleman has announced his resignation from Parliament.
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Date published: 7:39 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 39 comments
Nick Smith has been caught out by Trevor Mallard telling a porkie in Parliament.
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Date published: 6:28 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 26 comments
“Epic #ShowDontTell action”
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 51 comments
Greenpeace’s press release on the Charities Board decision not to grant the environmental organisation charity status.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 134 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 21st, 2018 - 36 comments
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Date published: 9:10 am, March 21st, 2018 - 68 comments
Two posts from No Right Turn.
“Fundamentally, climate change means it is us or the oil industry. We know whose side the Greens are on. But people are doubting Labour, and they only have themselves to blame for it.”
Also a post on banning fossil-fueled cars.
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Date published: 8:24 am, March 21st, 2018 - 80 comments
A whistleblower, Christopher Wyllie, has explained how Cambridge Analytica managed to secure the data of 50 million Americans and how it was used in the last US Presidential election.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 21st, 2018 - 214 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 20th, 2018 - 37 comments
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Date published: 10:24 am, March 20th, 2018 - 79 comments
The world has changed dramatically since Barak Obama was President of the United States.
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Date published: 8:39 am, March 20th, 2018 - 83 comments
The Government is reconsidering the future of New Zealand’s block offer process which releases exploration permits to the oil industry for exploratory drilling.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 20th, 2018 - 154 comments
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Date published: 5:31 pm, March 19th, 2018 - 45 comments
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Date published: 11:27 am, March 19th, 2018 - 37 comments
Facebook, Putin, poisoning and Ghouta have all given fairly extensive media coverage of late. Nothing much on Afrin. Afrin has just fallen to terrorists backed by Turkey.
Update: the photo used for this post is of the The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA), who are part of the International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces fighting in Syria.
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Date published: 11:03 am, March 19th, 2018 - 49 comments
“As Greens, we’ve always stood for modernising our democracy, making MPs more accountable and giving the public better access to the levers of power.”
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Date published: 9:48 am, March 19th, 2018 - 268 comments
The Greens have offered National their Primary Questions for oral answer in Parliament without conditions.
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Date published: 6:30 am, March 19th, 2018 - 41 comments
Update: Bridges finds his voice. And apologises.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 19th, 2018 - 104 comments
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Date published: 11:50 am, March 18th, 2018 - 53 comments
When elite’s tussle, shouldn’t we look after us and ours?
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Date published: 9:59 am, March 18th, 2018 - 87 comments
Heather Du Plessis-Allan has suggested that there is a power struggle happening in the Labour Party. Without the benefit of things normally considered to be important elements of an argument, those things being facts.
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 18th, 2018 - 10 comments
“The Health Select Committee is about to consider the government’s changes to medicinal cannabis law. This is your chance to tell politicians they have not gone far enough.”
The Greens have a handy online submission form that you can send as is or add your own thoughts. Submissions close on Wednesday.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 18th, 2018 - 254 comments
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Date published: 12:48 pm, March 17th, 2018 - 37 comments
is awarded this week to Lisa Prager who is convinced that construction of cycleways in Auckland is part of a global conspiracy to take away our rights and whose sledge hammering technique is not optimal.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 17th, 2018 - 127 comments
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Date published: 5:55 pm, March 16th, 2018 - 517 comments
The possible poisoning of Sergei Skripal and the consequent hysteria have all the signs of another false flag operation, as we saw before the second American invasion of Iraq. The chain of circumstantial evidence has more holes in it than a swiss cheese, and while attempted murder (if that is what it is) is a criminal act Winston Peters and Jeremy Corbyn are sane voices calling for evidence before any attribution still less action.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 16th, 2018 - 13 comments
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Date published: 1:21 pm, March 16th, 2018 - 27 comments
Hamilton or Kirikiriroa? I don’t even know why this is a question. Well, I do, it’s a question because white people are stupid, but I mean there’s no question in my mind which name I prefer. Kneejerk reactions to this sort of suggested change are a bit odd when you think about it. Everything in […]
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Date published: 10:42 am, March 16th, 2018 - 111 comments
Judith Collins thinks that no one cares that National oversaw the creation of a significant housing crisis.
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Date published: 10:06 am, March 16th, 2018 - 38 comments
This government has not yet developed an economic strategy.
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