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Date published: 8:23 pm, June 5th, 2017 - 13 comments
Nicky Hager will talk about his book Hit and Run, and the issues it raises about New Zealand’s values and role in the world at 5:30pm on Wednesday 7th June at Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace, Wellington. The book is about important events and the incoherence of New Zealand fighting it’s longest ever war in Central Asia. This talk is particularly timely in view of this week’s visit of the American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.
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Date published: 11:00 am, June 5th, 2017 - 58 comments
In the United Kingdom the polls continue to narrow and Jeremy Corbyn continues to perform outstandingly well. Is the upset of all upsets possible?
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Date published: 7:24 am, June 5th, 2017 - 261 comments
John Key has been awarded a knighthood. Want to know why?
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Date published: 6:58 am, June 5th, 2017 - 29 comments
Thus endeth the divine right of kings. It’s time to remember where our power is.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 5th, 2017 - 95 comments
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Date published: 11:55 pm, June 4th, 2017 - 12 comments
What a surprise! Not sure how long it was up, but Google cache still has a copy.
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Date published: 8:07 am, June 4th, 2017 - 28 comments
Denis Tegg has discovered details of Ministry for the Environment’s currently unpublished Guidelines for Local Authorities on Climate Change. The data relied on would appear to already be outdated but suggests that towns such as Thames are going to face inundation in coming decades.
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Date published: 7:44 am, June 4th, 2017 - 44 comments
Once upon a time this country stood up to American and said no to nuclear weapons. Now we dare not say yes to saving the planet.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 4th, 2017 - 196 comments
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Date published: 5:01 pm, June 3rd, 2017 - 30 comments
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Date published: 4:48 pm, June 3rd, 2017 - 136 comments
A wee bit of speculation for a long week-end.
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Date published: 9:25 am, June 3rd, 2017 - 36 comments
US Secretary of State and Oil Baron Rex Tillerson is visiting New Zealand next Tuesday. And 350 Aotearoa is planning to provide him with a warm reception.
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Date published: 7:27 am, June 3rd, 2017 - 41 comments
Guess which two NZ broadcasters have disgraced themselves by lining up behind Trump’s lunatic fringe denier posturing.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 3rd, 2017 - 92 comments
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Date published: 5:43 pm, June 2nd, 2017 - 8 comments
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Date published: 3:55 pm, June 2nd, 2017 - 56 comments
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Date published: 11:41 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 11 comments
The Government starts to make cannabidiol more available.
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Date published: 8:01 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 213 comments
Donald Trump has announced that the USA will be withdrawing from the Paris Climate Change Accord.
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Date published: 7:04 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 103 comments
The Ministry of Social Development illegally penalised a woman who refused to name the rapist father of her child. The case shines a spotlight on an issue that needs fixing.
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Date published: 6:37 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 20 comments
Got to hand it to Peter Dunne, he is a master of tragic comedy.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 54 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 1st, 2017 - 18 comments
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Date published: 10:58 am, June 1st, 2017 - 3 comments
Part of an occasional series. It all seems to be going according to plan.
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Date published: 7:06 am, June 1st, 2017 - 131 comments
The Tories’ supposed landslide trickles to a halt.
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Date published: 6:40 am, June 1st, 2017 - 19 comments
There’s the fake image building via painful social media – like spaghetti pizza and walk runs – and then there’s there’s the true character moments that go genuinely viral.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 1st, 2017 - 24 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 31st, 2017 - 20 comments
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Date published: 2:53 pm, May 31st, 2017 - 16 comments
One of the nasty little fishhooks in the budget was the cutting of the home insulation scheme (Warm Up New Zealand). The scheme had a benefit-cost ratio of $6 for every $1 invested. Around 1,600 people die in NZ a year of cold-related factors. Hope the tax cuts are worth it eh?
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Date published: 11:13 am, May 31st, 2017 - 34 comments
Thank you Robert Smellie QC, I’m sure your donation will be put to great use. Smellie said: “I am a practising Anglican and as such I see socialism as being far closer to the Gospel than free enterprise.”
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Date published: 10:00 am, May 31st, 2017 - 66 comments
The pace of change in transportation may mean that some time soon private ownership of petroleum cars may disappear.
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Date published: 9:18 am, May 31st, 2017 - 21 comments
Climate change, human rights, indigenous rights, Māori and Pasifika, and fresh, young faces on the 2017 Green Party List.
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