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Date published: 6:46 am, December 13th, 2024 - 14 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, Dirty Politics, infrastructure, nicola willis, winston peters
Tags: Cook Strait ferries, i-Rex, Interislander, Kiwirail
Government sneakily shifts the numbers on the cancelled Kiwirail i-Rex project from $3b to $4b as Luxon and Willis defend their plan for a plan.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 13th, 2024 - 17 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 12th, 2024 - 20 comments
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Date published: 9:57 am, December 12th, 2024 - 46 comments
Yesterday’s replacement ferry announcement by Nicola Willis suggests that very little progress has been made in securing replacement Cook Island ferries.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 12th, 2024 - 28 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 11th, 2024 - 14 comments
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Date published: 2:43 pm, December 11th, 2024 - 4 comments
New Zealand is set to update sedition and espionage laws, making these as harsh as those of other Western states that are now gearing up for war with Russia and China.
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Date published: 10:03 am, December 11th, 2024 - 14 comments
Unlike two other recent polls the latest Taxpayer’s Union poll reports a surge to Act happening during the time the Treaty Principles Bill was introduced.
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Date published: 8:57 am, December 11th, 2024 - 11 comments
The similarities between the Atlas Network modus operandi and our government’s policies appear strident and unsettling.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 11th, 2024 - 50 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 10th, 2024 - 4 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 10th, 2024 - 45 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 9th, 2024 - 12 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 9th, 2024 - 18 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 8th, 2024 - 75 comments
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Date published: 4:13 pm, December 7th, 2024 - 9 comments
With extensive use of internal documents, Maire Leadbeater’s excellent exposition of the various iterations of the security intelligence services tells a story of constant make-work in search of an adversary defined only by ideology.
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Date published: 11:51 am, December 7th, 2024 - 12 comments
See for yourself.
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Date published: 10:28 am, December 7th, 2024 - 29 comments
It appears that the Government’s intent to politicise youth offending by making an elite few dress up in army uniforms and march around in an effort to solve a lifetime of neglect is not working out so well.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 7th, 2024 - 25 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 6th, 2024 - 6 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 6th, 2024 - 26 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 5th, 2024 - 1 comment
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Date published: 3:38 pm, December 5th, 2024 - 30 comments
The resurgence of the tax debate reflects impacts of neo-liberal economic policy and developments in the global economy over the last half century. As Labour considers further its approach to tax policy, this wider context should be considered
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Date published: 10:23 am, December 5th, 2024 - 26 comments
It has emerged that Health NZ attempted to include hundreds of millions of dollars in redundancies and holiday pay remediation chargeable this year in last year’s Health accounts and this would have made the current deficit smaller but last year’s deficit larger.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 5th, 2024 - 30 comments
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Date published: 6:35 pm, December 4th, 2024 - 3 comments
The Government announced reform of AT, effectively conceding that the behemouth National created in 2010 was the wrong structure.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 4th, 2024 - 16 comments
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Date published: 10:14 am, December 4th, 2024 - 20 comments
Five recent polls show that Kiwis are tired of the Coalition government, but will the trendline hold?
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 4th, 2024 - 26 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 3rd, 2024 - 5 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 3rd, 2024 - 62 comments
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