The Hong Kong protest worked
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Date published: 8:22 am, June 16th, 2019 - 10 comments
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Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, has permanently suspended the legislative proposal to enable extradition of Hong Kong people to among other places mainland China.
What have Unions ever done for freeloaders?
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Date published: 8:39 am, June 16th, 2019 - 135 comments
Two teachers who support individual contracts and performance pay are upset that they are not going to immediately get the benefit the Teachers Unions negotiated for their members.
How To Get There 16/6/19
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Date published: 7:00 am, June 16th, 2019 - 61 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 16/06/2019
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The freedom to insult
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Date published: 5:37 pm, June 15th, 2019 - 105 comments
David Seymour is proposing a law change that would protect neo nazis from the effects of their hate speech unless the speech also incited or threatened violence.
Open mike 15/06/2019
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Daily review 14/06/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 14th, 2019 - 28 comments
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Mark Richardson wants to be a Nat MP
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Date published: 8:17 am, June 14th, 2019 - 100 comments
Mark Richardson thinks he may have a future career and will be able to transform from overpaid TV personality to overpaid public representative.
Open mike 14/06/2019
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Daily review 13/06/2019
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Farewell Mr Makhlouf
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Date published: 12:39 pm, June 13th, 2019 - 45 comments
Gabriel Makhlouf will be remembered because of events surrounding the unauthorised access of Treasury information by National. History should result in him being remembered for more positive things, like the creation of a new framework that has restructured how the government spends public money from the ground up.
An October election in the UK?
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Date published: 9:39 am, June 13th, 2019 - 27 comments
Boris Johnson declared his candidacy today. The Guardian’s Tom Kibasi speculates on his strategy – pick a fight with the EU, make Brexit the issue and call an election. Do a deal with Farage and save Britain from Corbyn. Will it work?
Open mike 13/06/2019
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Daily review 12/06/2019
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National keeps digging itself into a hole on budget leaks
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Date published: 9:57 am, June 12th, 2019 - 141 comments
National continues to attack the Government on its handling of the Treasury budget leak. But it still has not properly explained why its behaviour should be considered ethical.
Open mike 12/06/2019
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FiveEyes on our elections
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Date published: 3:56 am, June 12th, 2019 - 94 comments
Andrew Little’s letter to the Select Committee on election interference puzzled me – it seemed to be out of the blue and not particularly relevant to our system. Then I read about a meeting on the Gold Coast last year and it became clear as to why – FiveEyes pressure.
Daily review 11/06/2019
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National refuses to rule out coalition with Destiny
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Date published: 7:31 am, June 11th, 2019 - 124 comments
On the day that Brian Tamaki engaged in some rabid right wing dog whistling and talked about a clash of cultures Simon Bridges has refused to rule out working with Destiny Church’s Coalition New Zealand party.
Open mike 11/06/2019
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Daily review 10/06/2019
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Pollwatch: 9th June 2019
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Date published: 4:00 pm, June 10th, 2019 - 27 comments
We had both major polls out yesterday, as noted in previous stories, and boy were the results a doozy! In addition to twice my usual talk about models, we’re going to get into the assumption some people are no doubt already making- that one of the polls is “wrong,” or more technically, rogue. For those […]
Three disturbingly different views on climate change
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Date published: 2:10 pm, June 10th, 2019 - 63 comments
In the same week that Donald Trump said that the American climate was the cleanest climate, Ian Dunlop, former chairman of the Australian Coal Association, has warned of massive social consequences ranging from increased religious fervour to outright chaos. And UK Chancellor Philip Hammond is questioning if remedial action is affordable.
Deranged Jacinda syndrome
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Date published: 9:14 am, June 10th, 2019 - 90 comments
Mike Hosking has chosen to criticise Jacinda Ardern for touring the country and speaking to communities about the Wellbeing budget rather than flying across the world to take part in a photo opportunity.
Open mike 10/06/2019
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Two polls out tonight
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Date published: 4:50 pm, June 9th, 2019 - 87 comments
The latest Colmar Brunton and Reid Research polls are out tonight and clearly they will be trying to measure what effect the Budget has had on public opinion. What will they show?
Politics is like a Traffic Jam
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Date published: 7:00 am, June 9th, 2019 - 45 comments
Traffic jams are frustrating, waste time and money, have no cause or purpose, and they are all the same.
How To Get There 9/6/19
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Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 09/06/2019
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What is happening in Britain?
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Date published: 10:31 am, June 8th, 2019 - 22 comments
In the United Kingdom politics is becoming very unstable with the surge of the new Brexit Party, a Conservative Party that no longer knows what it stands for and Labour also shedding significant support to other parties with clearer positions on Brexit.
Open mike 08/06/2019
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- New Kiwi research questions Government’s loan shark decisionThe Government's decision to not cap the interest rate loan sharks can charge is under further scrutiny following the release of a new report. ...3 days ago
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- Plastics campaigners welcome announcement on refund schemesPlastic campaigners welcome action on waste today, following an announcement by the Ministry for Environment that it intends to “look into” establishing a bottle deposit scheme. ...3 days ago
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- Growing risk of nitrate contamination private water suppliesMany thousands of people could be at risk from drinking water with high levels of nitrates. ...3 days ago
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- Call for the government to ‘stop stealing Māori children’Māori lawyers, midwives, social workers and academics unite to call on the government to ‘stop stealing Māori children’ ...3 days ago
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- Housing Providers Launch KiwiBuy PetitionAdopting KiwiBuy, a range of programmes enabling Kiwis to own their own home progressively, is being urged on the Government, in a petition launched by Community Housing Providers. The Salvation Army, Housing Foundation, Habitat for Humanity and Community Housing ...3 days ago
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- Seabed oil drilling imminent as giant rig arrivesWednesday, June 12: Drilling in our seabed is about to start for the overseas oil giant OMV, despite the Government ban on new oil and gas permits. ...4 days ago
- How NZ’s well-being budget delivers for the environmentInternationally, the Ardern government is seen as a progressive beacon , and its recent budget was watched closely as a milestone in the “year of delivery” for Ardern’s well-being agenda. ...4 days ago
- Secondary teachers call off next week’s strikesSecondary teachers have cancelled the regional rolling strike action that had been planned for the week beginning 17 June 2019. ...4 days ago
- Establishing fitness to stand trial for Chch shooterEstablishing fitness to stand trial as the first step in Christchurch attack court process ...4 days ago
- WTF? There’s a giant oil rig on the horizonThursday, June 13: A drill rig commissioned by oil giant OMV has arrived in New Zealand, a little over a year after the Government issued a ban on new oil and gas exploration permits. ...4 days ago
- Hate Speech? Or Speech they Hate!It is not hate speech that is being banned, but speech that the Left hate. ...4 days ago
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- Feds applauds Budget’s farming investmentsMoves to improve the accuracy of Overseer, and on-the-ground support for farmers working to lift their environmental sustainability, are positive steps, Federated Farmers says. ...4 days ago
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- Dancing with the Stars finale: And the winner is…
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From the debating chamber, to estimates hearings, to question time, to a first reading debate, Budget 2019 is all over Parliament at the moment despite being unveiled last month. Here's the financial scrutiny process. ...3 hours ago - The Spinoff Reviews New Zealand #85: Taking a dog on an Auckland train
We review the entire country and culture of New Zealand, one thing at a time. Today, Alex Casey borrows a dog and goes on a magical journey. Look, I had extremely high hopes for the day that pets were finally allowed ...4 hours ago - Family justice review urges integrated approach to servicesThe Independent Panel considering family justice reforms is calling for an integrated family justice service - called Te Korowai Ture ā Whānau. ...5 hours ago
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Auckland is great – but, argues Catherine McGregor, Melbourne’s restaurants, cafes and bars still have the edge.Long before ‘cool’ even existed, Melbourne was cooler than wherever you lived. Take it from me: if you’d stopped a 19th century dandy flaneur-ing ...10 hours ago - How to read the most unreadable (and greatest) novel ever published
Auckland musician Joshua Hetherington used to tremble at the thought of reading Ulysses. But in this personal essay published on Bloomsday – the annual celebration of James Joyce – he discovers a kind of spirit guide. ...11 hours ago - The best of The Spinoff this week
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What was New Zealand’s role in the interception of the Andika, and is the $25 million allocated to preventing asylum-seeker vessels like it really a humanitarian act?In the 2019 “Wellbeing” budget, $25 million was allocated to maritime mass arrival prevention, ...15 hours ago - We need a new OT complaints agency
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OPEN LETTER: By Keith Jackson I joined the Australian Journalists Association (now the MEAA – Media Alliance) in, I think, 1971, when I still lived and worked in Papua New Guinea. When I formally retired from paid work a ...1 day ago - Patrick Gower: Our justice system helped kill Nicole Tuxford
Nicole Tuxford’s death is up there with the worst failures of the justice system in New Zealand history, writes Newshub’s Patrick Gower. Our justice system helped kill Nicole Tuxford. These are extreme and hurtful words to put next to Nicole’s name, ...1 day ago - Science Writing and Climate Change – a new environmental journalism book
David Robie ISBN/code: 9781927184578 Price: $20.00 Publication date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Publisher: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in association with SciDev.Net and the Pacific Media Centre: Manila and Auckland. “Disaster reporting, ...1 day ago - ACT Party members’ bill would repeal parts of Human Rights ActThe Act Party has announced a new members' bill that would repeal parts of the Human Rights Act, and it says it wants to abolish the Human Rights Commission. ...1 day ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Wiseman, Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there’s something out there in ...2 days ago - Two greats of Auckland theatre meet in A Fine Balance
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Being a big brand, corporate, or government department means restraining yourself on social media, no matter how grievously you feel you’ve been wronged, writes Anna ConnellI used to manage social media for a bank. We had good days and bad ...2 days ago - Climate change and the rural way of life
The government’s environmental policy is creating major tensions in farming communities. Alex Braae went to a meeting in Taumarunui to see it play out. “We’ve got the get the government’s attention somehow. Okay, we’re not all going to jump on our ...2 days ago - Lesley Max: Big questions beyond baby uplift video
Dame Lesley Max watched Melanie Reid's baby uplift documentary with a knot in her stomach but urges New Zealanders to move beyond gut-level responses to really seeking solutions. ...2 days ago - How The Salvation Army are taking on dodgy truck shops
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Governments and unions need to learn from the protracted and conflict-driven teacher negotiations. ...2 days ago - A biblical plague of rats is terrorising Titirangi
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The Chinese New Zealand Herald is in the spotlight for publishing and then retracting an article about the Hong Kong protests. ...2 days ago - Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
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