Luxon & Willis Double Down on Ferries Debacle

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Date published: 6:46 am, December 13th, 2024 - 14 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, Dirty Politics, infrastructure, nicola willis, winston peters
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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.

Open mike 13/12/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 13th, 2024 - 17 comments

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Daily review 12/12/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 12th, 2024 - 20 comments

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Clusterfreak

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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.

Open mike 12/12/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 12th, 2024 - 28 comments

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Daily review 11/12/2024

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Foreign interference Bill ‘repressive tool’ to intimidate public: former minister

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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.

The unusual feature of Taxpayers Union’s latest Curia poll

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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.

Atlas Network in New Zealand

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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.

Open mike 11/12/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 11th, 2024 - 50 comments

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Daily review 10/12/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 10th, 2024 - 4 comments

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Open mike 10/12/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 10th, 2024 - 45 comments

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Daily review 09/12/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 9th, 2024 - 12 comments

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Open mike 09/12/2024

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Open mike 08/12/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 8th, 2024 - 75 comments

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Maire Leadbeater “The Enemy Within”

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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.

Are Lester Levy and Shane Reti “cooking the books?”

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Date published: 11:51 am, December 7th, 2024 - 12 comments

See for yourself.

Unacceptable

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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.

Open mike 07/12/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 7th, 2024 - 25 comments

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Daily review 06/12/2024

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Open mike 06/12/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 6th, 2024 - 26 comments

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Daily review 05/12/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 5th, 2024 - 1 comment

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Tax and the Splintering World

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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

Creative accounting

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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.

Open mike 05/12/2024

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AT is to be gutted

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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.

Daily review 04/12/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 4th, 2024 - 16 comments

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Luxon Takes A Beating

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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?

Open mike 04/12/2024

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Daily review 03/12/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 3rd, 2024 - 5 comments

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Open mike 03/12/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 3rd, 2024 - 62 comments

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