Kiwi Treason
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Date published: 8:08 am, August 4th, 2016 - 181 comments
Vegemite and marmite taste the same, rugby is naff, John Clarke’s an Australian. What?
Government puts 15% tax on foreign house buyers
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Date published: 7:11 am, August 4th, 2016 - 32 comments
No, not our government. Though as the average NZ house price just hit $600,000, and Auckland just short of $1m, they really should.
Open mike 04/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 4th, 2016 - 27 comments
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Guest post: Eva Hartshorn-Sanders for Senior Vice President
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Date published: 7:00 pm, August 3rd, 2016 - 67 comments
The Standard’s authors have offered candidates for the upcoming Labour Party internal elections the chance to guest post about why they’re running. Eva Hartshorn-Sanders has been nominated for the position of Senior Vice President. Here’s her vision for the role and the party.
Daily Review 03/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 3rd, 2016 - 15 comments
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Trade retaliation
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Date published: 1:21 pm, August 3rd, 2016 - 50 comments
The Nats are in a difficult spot here, no doubt about it. The weak steel is a serious issue and it should be investigated. But their usual tactics of deny and lie have been caught out yet again.
Meth Fries Housing NZ’s Brains
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Date published: 8:55 am, August 3rd, 2016 - 129 comments
Housing NZ has admitted that it is evicting tenants when only tiny trace amounts of meth are found on the property. It further admits that the testing regime is not fit for purpose. But, hey, they have the power to make people homeless and they’re not going to let fairness or common sense get in the way of their moral panic.
When did the War on Drugs become the War on the Poor?
Team Trump pretty much calls for civil war
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Date published: 8:02 am, August 3rd, 2016 - 168 comments
Team Trump is pretty much calling for civil war if they don’t get their way. We are through the looking glass.
Open mike 03/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 3rd, 2016 - 79 comments
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Free money from climate change deniers
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Date published: 8:29 pm, August 2nd, 2016 - 5 comments
Double or nothing?
Daily Review 02/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 2nd, 2016 - 6 comments
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Breaking: Compensation for Bain for Government’s mishandling of compensation process
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Date published: 11:10 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 139 comments
The Government has agreed to pay $925,000 compensation to David Bain, not for wrongful conviction but as an ex gratia payment for the flaws in the compensation process.
Listen to Nick Smith trying to defend fudged foreign ownership data
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Date published: 10:30 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 22 comments
Anyone who believes the Nats’ figures needs to listen to yesterday’s interview – Why won’t Nick Smith answer this one simple question? Excellent work from Garner.
The EU thinks that our tax system’s clean bill of health is not so clean
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Date published: 8:08 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 43 comments
The European Union is considering sanctions against New Zealand for operating as a tax haven and the proposed reforms by John Sherwin may not be enough.
NZ being used as international example of a bad welfare system
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 104 comments
NZ under National is being used internationally as an example of a bad welfare system.
Do we care? Are we going to fix it?
Open mike 02/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 187 comments
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Free Petrol Pt II
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Date published: 6:38 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 11 comments
Part II of IV. How to achieve zero carbon from the shipping and aviation sectors by the 2030s.
Daily Review 01/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 35 comments
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Free Petrol Pt I
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Date published: 1:42 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 3 comments
Part I of a IV part series of posts on what we can do to hold global warming below 2 degrees C.
The Unitary Plan will not solve the Housing Crisis
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Date published: 11:30 am, August 1st, 2016 - 9 comments
The Unitary Plan has been described as a panacea for the housing crisis by the Government. But will it actually address this most acute of issues?
Who will be to blame if a bridge collapses?
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Date published: 10:15 am, August 1st, 2016 - 93 comments
Who will be to blame if untested, undetected, weak steel causes the collapse of a structure?
We can’t say we weren’t warned
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Date published: 7:12 am, August 1st, 2016 - 190 comments
When the Auckland housing bubble bursts a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money. They won’t be able to say they weren’t warned.
Open mike 01/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 1st, 2016 - 80 comments
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Climate change pedal to the metal
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Date published: 8:53 am, July 31st, 2016 - 116 comments
Avoiding 2 deg C warming is a ship that’s sailed. Global warming is now happening at about 4.3x the previous long-run rate. And it might go up to 18x the previous rate over the next few years. That’s what the pundits call “abrupt climate change.”
Open mike 31/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 31st, 2016 - 116 comments
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NZ in the international news again
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Date published: 3:35 pm, July 30th, 2016 - 59 comments
Hollywood should try a different model
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Date published: 10:11 am, July 30th, 2016 - 17 comments
Piracy is shifting from peer-to-peer to streaming. Big Entertainment isn’t shifting it’s attitudes at all – still stuck in the dark ages.
Chris de Freitas now is the time to be afraid
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Date published: 7:53 am, July 30th, 2016 - 161 comments
As the temperatures increase and the sea rises Chris de Freitas still claims that anthropogenic climate change is not a happening thing. And shows his inability to analyze by misinterpreting a Jarrod Gilbert article which describes climate change deniers as charlatans.
The Ray White – China deal
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Date published: 7:32 am, July 30th, 2016 - 87 comments
Real Estate agent Ray White has formed a partnership with China’s Lianjia to market NZ houses to about 260 million Chinese buyers. They say it’s the government’s problem – and they’re right.
Open mike 30/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 30th, 2016 - 64 comments
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