The Nats’ new ‘swimmable’ rivers aren’t
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Date published: 3:08 pm, February 28th, 2017 - 15 comments
Under the new standards we have up to a 1 in 6 risk of serious infection at the times that we actually swim in rivers, and Smith is trying to hide this fact by fudging around with year-long averages. David Parker’s analysis yesterday was bang on.
Off the track
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Date published: 11:26 am, February 28th, 2017 - 7 comments
Off the Track is the 10th State of the Nation report from The Salvation Army’s Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit. Many of the markers routinely analysed for the report currently suggest we are not heading in the best direction for New Zealand as a whole. The Auckland Fabians have a lecture by Alan Johnson on the report on Thursday in Auckland.
National bolster their moribund blue-greens
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Date published: 8:28 am, February 28th, 2017 - 74 comments
I read this morning in Politik that Vernon Tava has left the Greens and appears to be leaning towards National. It doesn’t seem to me to much of a problem to lose a conservationist to National. It just means that the Greens can concentrate more effectively on the work of getting everyone trying to build a cleaner sustainable future.
Homeless crisis hidden in plain sight
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Date published: 8:11 am, February 28th, 2017 - 10 comments
Bill blames the blowout in emergency housing grants on the “hidden homeless”. Hidden only from those who will not see. Hidden only from a government that deliberately chooses for political reasons not to collect the relevant data.
Bill’s bigoted drug reckons vs the evidence
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Date published: 6:50 am, February 28th, 2017 - 176 comments
Some folks Bill knows are telling him stuff and he’s basing immigration policy on it. The facts say otherwise. Bill English is full of shit and it’s time that more media called him on it.
Open Mike 28/02/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 28th, 2017 - 45 comments
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Daily Review 27/02/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 27th, 2017 - 25 comments
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Two more Labour candidate selections
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Date published: 1:43 pm, February 27th, 2017 - 11 comments
Angela Warren-Clark (Tauranga Women’s Refuge manager) for Bay of Plenty and Jan Tinetti (Principal) for Tauranga. These are the kinds of grounded, real-world perspectives that we need in Parliament.
Housing crisis what housing crisis
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Date published: 8:02 am, February 27th, 2017 - 52 comments
The Government’s estimate of the extent of the housing crisis has recently been shown to be totally out of touch and to add further pathos it is counting kiwi families urgently housed in motels in tourism statistics.
Green Party Member’s Bill to protect freshwater
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Date published: 7:35 am, February 27th, 2017 - 16 comments
You can’t afford a house because of – plants!
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Date published: 7:03 am, February 27th, 2017 - 58 comments
I’m used to hearing some pretty pathetic excuses out of the National government. But this will really take some beating.
Open Mike 27/02/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 27th, 2017 - 89 comments
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Green Party candidates and vision speech (updated)
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Date published: 12:55 pm, February 26th, 2017 - 14 comments
James Shaw addresses Green Party candidates and shares their vision for Aotearoa New Zealand
Pike River facts laid out
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Date published: 11:27 am, February 26th, 2017 - 10 comments
An excellent piece by Pike River mum, Sonya Rockhouse, in today’s Sunday Star-Times. The full article is here, but here are some of the most important points…
Where to now for the left?
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Date published: 10:43 am, February 26th, 2017 - 115 comments
With the right in ascendancy throughout the Western World what does the left do to change this?
A fan grieves Key’s popularity bubble
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Date published: 10:08 am, February 26th, 2017 - 24 comments
Today’s news, tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapper. Tracy Watkins grieves. Max Rashbrooke explains.
Media response to the Mt Albert By election result
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Date published: 8:24 am, February 26th, 2017 - 99 comments
The media have responded to the Mt Albert by election result by raising the prospect of Jacinda Ardern becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party.
Open Mike 26/02/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 26th, 2017 - 54 comments
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Trump Whitehouse bans critical media from briefing
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Date published: 2:19 pm, February 25th, 2017 - 54 comments
It is day 37 of Donald Trump’s reign as POTUS. Today he decided to attack elements of the press that have been critical of him by banning them from a press conference.
Australia’s war
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Date published: 12:52 pm, February 25th, 2017 - 5 comments
Surprising no one: “A newly declassified report obtained by Fairfax Media reveals Australia’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was undertaken solely to enhance our alliance with the US.”
Can we even afford to be tenants in our own country?
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Date published: 9:29 am, February 25th, 2017 - 93 comments
Being tenants in our own country is starting to look like the good old days.
The Mt Albert By election
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Date published: 8:00 am, February 25th, 2017 - 80 comments
It is election day today in Mt Albert for the successor to David Shearer.
Comments are open.
It’s past time to be bold about water
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 25th, 2017 - 147 comments
Water is both the front line and the rallying cry.
Open Mike 25/02/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 25th, 2017 - 60 comments
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Daily Review 24/02/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 24th, 2017 - 10 comments
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Mt Albert – the left and the right
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Date published: 11:29 am, February 24th, 2017 - 80 comments
All the best to all candidates, and thank you to Julie Anne Genter and Jacinda Ardern for showing us all such a model of cooperation.
Two big policy fails
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Date published: 10:24 am, February 24th, 2017 - 10 comments
This is what you get with a hasty, reactive, “top down” policy process.
Nick Smith becomes Minister of Government Information
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Date published: 9:05 am, February 24th, 2017 - 62 comments
The Government intends to change the definitions of various indicators in an effort to solve some of the country’s most serious problems.
Forest and Bird takes it the Government in the Supreme Court
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Date published: 8:10 am, February 24th, 2017 - 25 comments
The Crown is seeking to overturn the Court of Appeal decision obtained by Forest and Bird which is preventing Conservation land in the Hawkes Bay from being used for the controversial Ruataniwha dam.
Open Mike 24/02/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 24th, 2017 - 108 comments
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Daily Review 23/02/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 23rd, 2017 - 5 comments
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