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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 33 comments
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Date published: 3:00 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 44 comments
Junior doctors are speaking out against the misinformation being spread by DHBs.
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Date published: 12:07 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 80 comments
Hekia Parata is to leave Parliament next year. The bad news is that she is probably going to stay on as education minister till then.
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Date published: 12:00 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 9 comments
Vincent O’Malley writes at The Guardian about how we should, or don’t, remember the New Zealand wars.
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Date published: 10:51 am, October 19th, 2016 - 16 comments
Excerpts from a lengthy Bernie Sanders interview published in the ‘New Republic’.
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Date published: 9:34 am, October 19th, 2016 - 7 comments
With the sudden departure of deep sea drilling company Statoil from Northland here’s a timely look the role of community action in that, the state of play in NZ and what is next.
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Date published: 8:32 am, October 19th, 2016 - 8 comments
Herald: “…the Government ought to be banking surpluses, just as Sir Michael Cullen did during the boom of 2000-2007”.
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Date published: 8:00 am, October 19th, 2016 - 163 comments
Deep into its third term and despite its many transgressions National still remains relatively popular. What gives?
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 19th, 2016 - 144 comments
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Date published: 5:55 am, October 19th, 2016 - 158 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
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Date published: 8:04 pm, October 18th, 2016 - 7 comments
Michael Cullen and Margaret Wilson will speak at the Fabian Society Seminar “5th Labour Government – Lessons from a time of Challenges” at Owen Glenn Centre, Auckland University, Grafton Road on Sunday October 30 from 1-5pm. Mike Williams, Dot Kettle and David Parker will be on the panel. Everyone welcome to discuss and debate. Guaranteed to be interesting – details inside.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 18th, 2016 - 11 comments
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Date published: 1:57 pm, October 18th, 2016 - 6 comments
Treasury papers just released show National’s Housing Infrastructure Fund to be everything you expected it to be: a quickly cobbled together headline.
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Date published: 8:16 am, October 18th, 2016 - 135 comments
Health – particularly mental health – is underfunded, resulting in strikes over patient safety and units shutdown due to staff shortages. And unnecessary deaths. So why is the government even thinking about tax-cuts when our services need investment?
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Date published: 8:00 am, October 18th, 2016 - 58 comments
The media last week reported extensively an operating surplus of $1.8 billion dollars. But they missed the not so good news that the value of ACC’s assets took a $5.1 billion hit, the Super Fund lost $2 billion, the Crown’s liability under the ETS increased by $1.5 billion and net Crown debt increased by $1.3 billion.
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Date published: 6:05 am, October 18th, 2016 - 167 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 18th, 2016 - 161 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 22 comments
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Date published: 3:03 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 113 comments
– time for misogynists to feel our anger.
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Date published: 1:35 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 6 comments
In August Hekia Parata announced her new COOL solution, that distinctly isn’t what it says on the tin.
Now’s your chance to submit your feedback on her proposal.
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Date published: 12:16 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 61 comments
National ministers have a habit of not wanting to turn up to the ‘hard’ questions, but Paula Bennett has been severely caught out by RNZ
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Date published: 8:59 am, October 17th, 2016 - 47 comments
Key is out of touch. But not so out of touch that he doesn’t know about the poverty crisis in NZ. The denial and evasions are deliberate.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 17th, 2016 - 223 comments
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Date published: 10:33 am, October 16th, 2016 - 31 comments
Hickey in The Herald on Sunday: “Our household debt to income ratio of 165 per cent is now about 5 per cent above those previous highs of 2008 and rising quickly as debt rises around twice as fast as incomes.”
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Date published: 9:45 am, October 16th, 2016 - 219 comments
Hillary Clinton’s no-fly zone policy for Syria as declared in the second presidential election means air war with Russia.
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Date published: 8:31 am, October 16th, 2016 - 173 comments
Bobby Azarian, an American Neuroscientist offers an interesting perspective on why Trump supporters continue to support him despite his clear weaknesses and failures.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 16th, 2016 - 196 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 14 comments
Congratulations and thanks to the people of Northland!
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Date published: 12:34 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 17 comments
I worked with Helen at the CTU for about seven years from 2008.
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Date published: 12:05 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 20 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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Date published: 12:03 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 13 comments
On Thursday National announced a really big budget cash surplus but it became apparent that Housing Corp has a really big cashflow problem.
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