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Open Mike 16/01/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, January 16th, 2018 - 106 comments

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Jac-in-da-Box

Written By: Mike Smith
Date published: 6:58 pm, January 15th, 2018 - 48 comments

“Wedger Wayne” Mapp in todays’s Spinoff does his best to stuff Jacinda Ardern into a Tony Blair “Third Way” box. Too glib by far. True in 2002 Blair did promise to eliminate child poverty by 2020; but poverty’s now the highest in 20 years in Britain. I’d back Jacinda to do much better. Besides, instead of Mandy she’s got David Parker.

Open Mike 15/01/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, January 15th, 2018 - 291 comments

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Really buffering climate change

Written By: lprent
Date published: 9:00 pm, January 14th, 2018 - 53 comments

The recent development of accident and disaster insurance over the last century is now having a profound influence on buffering climate change. The Economist had a recent article with an excellent graph. Perhaps this is worth encouraging to give a price signal and a political lobby against that of the polluter lobby.

Racist dog whistling

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 9:24 am, January 14th, 2018 - 64 comments

We may think that we now live in more enlightened times where the scourge of racism is finally being dealt to and is no longer considered acceptable but recent events in Australia and the United States suggests that this is not the case.

Open Mike 14/01/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, January 14th, 2018 - 115 comments

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Two Faced Liberalism.

Written By: Bill
Date published: 3:31 pm, January 13th, 2018 - 89 comments

Caring and heartless.

Is it time to Nationalise Auckland?

Written By: advantage
Date published: 8:51 am, January 13th, 2018 - 52 comments

It has been a decade now since Minister of Local Government Rodney Hide proposed amalgamating all of Auckland’s city councils into one enormous entity by dumping much of the Royal Commission’s proposals. Well it’s time to hold its results to account.

Open Mike 13/01/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, January 13th, 2018 - 107 comments

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Climate Change and the New Zealand Defence Forces

Written By: advantage
Date published: 8:00 am, January 12th, 2018 - 74 comments

It’s always bugged me that our military forces are under-used in New Zealand. It’s time we invited them to protect us from climate change.

Open Mike 12/01/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2018 - 126 comments

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You Cowed?

Written By: Bill
Date published: 3:21 pm, January 11th, 2018 - 94 comments

To bleat and wring hands, or to act? Jeez. It’s a difficult one.

Won’t somebody please think about the RONs?

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:21 am, January 11th, 2018 - 210 comments

National has announced a publicity campaign not about climate change or child poverty or our failing health systems or the housing crisis or anything else but about roads.

Jim Anderton 1938 – 2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:31 am, January 11th, 2018 - 7 comments

Jim Anderton’s funeral is at 2pm today, and will be livestreamed from youtube.

Open Mike 11/01/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, January 11th, 2018 - 67 comments

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Stopping the wage bleed

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 11:40 am, January 10th, 2018 - 46 comments

“You were never going to get rich as a bus driver but you could pay the mortgage or rent, afford a meal out now and then, and make sure your kids had what they needed to do well — hopefully to do better than you.

Competitive contracting has taken that away”