The Medicinal Marijuana Bill
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Date published: 8:00 am, December 21st, 2017 - 40 comments
Will the Medical Marijuana Bill just introduced into Parliament be as effective as proponents wish?
The End of Life Choice Bill
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Date published: 7:30 am, December 21st, 2017 - 155 comments
We recently got the first reading on the End of Life Choice Bill, which aims to create a controlled regime for euthanasia. What are the pros and cons of the Bill?
Open Mike 21/12/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 21st, 2017 - 216 comments
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National brings its B game to social media
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Date published: 8:30 am, December 20th, 2017 - 52 comments
A couple of recent examples suggests that National’s social media game is well below standard. And Judith Collins is no longer the Parliamentary Queen of twitter.
Germany and New Zealand Redux
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Date published: 8:00 am, December 20th, 2017 - 10 comments
New Zealand and Germany are both successful societies, with proportional democracies, strong economies, underpinned by strong public institutions and legal frameworks, and consistently believe that we are going in the right direction. But both countries rely on MMP and coalition governments. What will happen to the support parties?
Gareth Hughes: Passing a motion and other Parliamentary jargon
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Date published: 6:33 am, December 20th, 2017 - 10 comments
Democracy misunderstood is democracy denied.
Broadcasting Standards Authority finds Mike Hosking’s election comments about the Māori Party inaccurate and misleading
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Date published: 6:15 am, December 20th, 2017 - 56 comments
“Further, his comments the following evening were confusing and insufficient to correct the inaccurate information for viewers.”
Open Mike 20/12/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 20th, 2017 - 107 comments
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The new government’s approach to climate change
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Date published: 1:34 pm, December 19th, 2017 - 119 comments
The Government has announced the phasing out of the granting of permits for oil gas and coal extraction. Greenpeace thinks there should be a ban on new permits being granted.
The future of the USA
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Date published: 8:00 am, December 19th, 2017 - 78 comments
Left and right are used to predicting the accelerated decline of America, but are we now seeing it before our eyes and in our lifetimes?
Open Mike 19/12/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 19th, 2017 - 342 comments
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Let’s stop kidding ourselves.
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Date published: 7:01 am, December 18th, 2017 - 131 comments
The “Adapting to Climate Change in NZ” report.
Open Mike 18/12/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 18th, 2017 - 101 comments
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The Herald is obsessed with the latest Colmar Brunton poll
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Date published: 10:17 am, December 17th, 2017 - 47 comments
The Herald’s weekend political comment includes detailed analysis of the Colmar Brunton poll, now a week old, but ignored the details of the mini budget.
Tory Translation Service
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Date published: 9:39 am, December 17th, 2017 - 211 comments
I don’t often admit that there is anything that the right do better than the left, but, credit where it’s due, there are a few things. Chief amongst them are dog whistling and wedge politics. These are calculated political silencing tactics that use language to belittle the left and make us appear alienated from […]
Open Mike 17/12/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 17th, 2017 - 145 comments
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NRT on submitting on the End of Life Choice Bill
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Date published: 1:05 pm, December 16th, 2017 - 259 comments
“If you care about the bill, I encourage you to speak up about it.”
Doofus of the week – Jami Lee-Ross
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Date published: 7:30 am, December 16th, 2017 - 69 comments
Jami Lee-Ross wins the award this week for trying to hold up the passage of a law designed to make sure kids get enough to eat just so he could eat his lunch and then throwing the most amazing of temper tantrums when he did not get his way.
Open Mike 16/12/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 16th, 2017 - 108 comments
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Daily Review 15/12/2017
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Date published: 5:29 pm, December 15th, 2017 - 53 comments
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James Shaw: a stocktake on climate change action in Aotearoa – livestream announcement 11am
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Date published: 10:39 am, December 15th, 2017 - 33 comments
Spoiler alert: We need to do better.
Media response to Labour’s budget
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Date published: 8:42 am, December 15th, 2017 - 115 comments
Media response to the new Government’s mini budget has been overwhelmingly positive.
Open Mike 15/12/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 15th, 2017 - 131 comments
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Daily Review 14/12/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 14th, 2017 - 115 comments
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The Minister of Finance’s Mini-Budget
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Date published: 8:59 am, December 14th, 2017 - 88 comments
Big day today as Labour’s mini budget is announced.
World Bank to stop funding oil and gas exploration
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Date published: 6:15 am, December 14th, 2017 - 29 comments
It is time for all of the institutions, countries, investors and individuals who are still in the Paris Agreement to stop funding fossils – once and for all.
– Stephen Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International
Take abortion out of the Crimes Act
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Date published: 6:10 am, December 14th, 2017 - 68 comments
Abortion is still a crime in NZ. It’s time to change the law so that women don’t have to lie about their mental health to get the health care they need.
Open Mike 14/12/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 14th, 2017 - 120 comments
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Daily Review 13/12/2017
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Date published: 5:38 pm, December 13th, 2017 - 47 comments
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National’s Standards
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Date published: 2:59 pm, December 13th, 2017 - 74 comments
[getty src=”493189993″ width=”496″ height=”345″] It’s great to see Chris Hipkins abolishing ‘National Standards’ as a matter of priority. This policy was nothing but an unfortunate bit of populism from the previous government, and a Prime Minister in John Key who specialised in band-aid solutions to problems that required stitches. While it may have made some people […]
The Alabama senate race
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Date published: 2:44 pm, December 13th, 2017 - 45 comments
The Alabama Senate election results are starting to feed through with Democrat Doug Jones slightly ahead of Republican Roy Moore in the Republican stronghold after very early results.
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