Waimea a good dam?
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Date published: 9:00 am, July 14th, 2017 - 54 comments
The proposed Waimea Dam in Nelson is attracting opposition from the Green Party but support from the Labour Party. Is there such a thing as a good dam project?
Open Mike 14/07/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 14th, 2017 - 98 comments
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Daily Review 13/07/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 13th, 2017 - 58 comments
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Non-news News and News Non-news
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Date published: 12:22 pm, July 13th, 2017 - 100 comments
A politician said their party would insist on being a part of government depending on the vote falls in September, while another gets called out for his habitual stirring at the pot of ethnic division. In a place like the South Africa of old, we all know which one would be the story. But this is New Zealand and this is now.
Labour coming in from the cold
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Date published: 12:18 pm, July 13th, 2017 - 63 comments
Amongst all the hooha of the political week, Labour did something pretty cool with its winter heating announcement. They made a policy for all beneficiaries. We should be paying attention to what underpins that because there is potential here.
NRT: National’s new Muldoonism
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Date published: 9:44 am, July 13th, 2017 - 7 comments
I/S at No Right Turn: “at its core, the National Party is an anti-environment party, dedicated to destroying our natural heritage and impoverishing future generations for the profit of their cronies”.
Nat / ACT don’t think poor people should have kids
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Date published: 7:01 am, July 13th, 2017 - 129 comments
ACT’s David Seymour thinks that poor people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. If that sounds familiar it should – the Nats have said more or less the same thing over the years.
Open Mike 13/07/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 13th, 2017 - 82 comments
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Daily Review 12/07/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 12th, 2017 - 57 comments
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Trump’s Russia smoking gun
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Date published: 12:02 pm, July 12th, 2017 - 39 comments
Some of the best tweets on the latest chapter of the Trump tragedy. We never expected the smoking gun to be friendly fire. Will Republicans meekly swallow this too?
Nats’ poll fall 2014 2017
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Date published: 7:26 am, July 12th, 2017 - 141 comments
Toby Manhire on The Spinoff has an interesting analysis of the recent Colmar Brunton poll. Comapred to the same poll in 2014 National are 5% down, with the Labour/Green alliance unchanged. The fall in the preferred PM rating from Key to English is huge. The Nats are highly vulnerable.
National’s plans for mining and development of conservation land
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Date published: 6:30 am, July 12th, 2017 - 52 comments
Forest and Bird: ““The Government is seeking to give themselves the powers to push through controversial and damaging projects that would otherwise fail because they breach environmental limits.”
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.
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