Journalism matters
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Date published: 6:20 am, July 12th, 2017 - 22 comments
Who will tell us the truth in election year?
Open Mike 12/07/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 12th, 2017 - 97 comments
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Daily Review 11/07/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 11th, 2017 - 21 comments
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Labour’s Targeted Families Package
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Date published: 1:54 pm, July 11th, 2017 - 101 comments
As covered by Vernon Small on Stuff: “Labour is promising to scrap National’s Budget tax cut plan. Instead it will funnel the cash into higher Working for Families payments and extra help for those with young children. It’s a package it says will deliver up to $48 a week extra to middle income families.”
Generous donation – why was it necessary to get a hospital built?
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Date published: 12:58 pm, July 11th, 2017 - 28 comments
Thank you Mark Dunajtschik. But why did it take a generous private donation to get a badly needed public hospital off the drawing-board?
Brexgrets
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Date published: 10:13 am, July 11th, 2017 - 123 comments
Seems the tide of sentiment in the UK is turning against Brexit. Do the tories have what it takes to turn back from their self-destructive path?
Narratives out of noise
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Date published: 7:13 am, July 11th, 2017 - 189 comments
Another poll, another round of narratives out of noise.
That’s cold
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Date published: 6:31 am, July 11th, 2017 - 50 comments
What’s wrong with a few mid-winter power cuts down south?
Open Mike 11/07/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 11th, 2017 - 43 comments
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Daily Review 10/07/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 10th, 2017 - 102 comments
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Peters posturing
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Date published: 8:54 am, July 10th, 2017 - 95 comments
As usual in election year, Peters is posturing left and right.
The Rainbow Warrior was sunk 32 years ago today
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Date published: 8:15 am, July 10th, 2017 - 19 comments
Thirty two years ago today the French Government committed an act of Terrorism on New Zealand soil on a peaceful organisation dedicated to protecting our environment.
G20: Trump isolated and friendless
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Date published: 6:17 am, July 10th, 2017 - 27 comments
ABC news political editor Chris Uhlmann’s brutal takedown of Trump goes viral.
Open Mike 10/07/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 10th, 2017 - 255 comments
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Green Party announcement: charging on water bottling and a moratorium on new plants
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Date published: 3:26 pm, July 9th, 2017 - 117 comments
As part of their water policy the Greens intend to charge bottling companies for water take, and to put a moratorium on new bottling plants until NZ decides what is the best way to protect our water. They also want to improve regulations across the board to make drinking water safe.
The Game
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Date published: 9:00 am, July 9th, 2017 - 80 comments
If a Rugby series was an election campaign.
“Ongoing cover-up” on Operation Burnham
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Date published: 8:11 am, July 9th, 2017 - 14 comments
David Fisher in The Herald exposes yet another NZDF “error” on Operation Burnham. Intelligence analyst Dr Paul Buchanan: “I’m absolutely certain that what we’re seeing is part of the ongoing cover-up.”
The Government is misrepresenting the effect of the Ruataniwha Dam decision
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Date published: 8:00 am, July 9th, 2017 - 21 comments
The Government has responded to the Supreme Court decision which puts a halt on the Ruataniwha Dam by claiming wrongly that the protected land was of low quality and by stating that a law change, possibly retrospective, will occur.
No Right Turn: Climate change: Ending oil
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Date published: 6:51 am, July 9th, 2017 - 53 comments
I/S at No Right Turn writes: “Fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change. A significant chunk of those fossil fuels are burned in cars, so if we want to beat climate change, we need to stop doing that. And today, the French government signalled that it would do just that, announcing that it would ban the sale of petrol and diesel-fuelled cars by 2040″
Open Mike 09/07/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 9th, 2017 - 82 comments
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What happened to the Newshub article about Nick Smith and the Pike River film?
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Date published: 9:56 am, July 8th, 2017 - 41 comments
A Newshub article where Nick Smith contradicts the Police and Solid Energy about the existence of video showing a body in Pike River has disappeared …
Barclay goes to ground as police investigation widens to include Nat board member
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Date published: 8:18 am, July 8th, 2017 - 34 comments
Updates from the #debarclay – Under-investigation MP Todd Barclay has dropped off the public radar and Police to investigate board member over Todd Barclay saga.
Skepticism cynicism lies and hypocrisy
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Date published: 7:30 am, July 8th, 2017 - 17 comments
There’s a very good / depressing long read in The Guardian on the dangerous “weaponising” of cynicism by climate change deniers. One of the most interesting sections was a discussion of the way that voters are more forgiving of lies than hypocrisy.
Open Mike 08/07/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 8th, 2017 - 209 comments
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Daily Review 07/07/2017
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Date published: 5:26 pm, July 7th, 2017 - 17 comments
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This Bloody Vote.
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Date published: 11:53 am, July 7th, 2017 - 212 comments
Disentangling the veritable plate of spaghetti that’s been set before us this election.
Does the left do more of the same or does it get radical this election?
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Date published: 11:12 am, July 7th, 2017 - 252 comments
Andrew Dean has written an opinion piece for Stuff where he suggests that to win this election Labour and the Greens have to become more radical.
Why no inquiry into abuse in state care?
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Date published: 7:03 am, July 7th, 2017 - 14 comments
As we celebrate Parliament’s apology for historical convictions for homosexuality, it surely raises the question of why the government is so hardheartedly against an inquiry into historical abuse.
Open Mike 07/07/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 7th, 2017 - 48 comments
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Politics in the Age of Populism
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Date published: 9:28 pm, July 6th, 2017 - 3 comments
Bryce Edwards, Stephanie Rodgers and Rob Egan. Connolly Hall, Guildford Street, Wellington, 5:30 pm Friday 7th July.Fabian society, all welcome.
Daily Review 06/07/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 6th, 2017 - 33 comments
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