Archive for 2020

Open mike 20/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:05 am, April 20th, 2020 - 99 comments

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Greens push for large intercity rail infrastructure to ensure sustainable post-COVID-19 rebuild

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:26 am, April 19th, 2020 - 122 comments

“The Greens are highlighting fast intercity rail improvements as the type of climate-friendly, job-creating project that should be prioritised for post-COVID-19 economic stimulus investment.”

Open mike 19/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 19th, 2020 - 262 comments

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Don’t plan on a vaccine or persistent natural immunity.

Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:42 pm, April 18th, 2020 - 93 comments

Don’t plan on a vaccine or persistent natural immunity. Unless we’re incredibly lucky, neither are very likely for much of the coming decade. We don’t have the bat immunity systems. Learn to embrace the bets of the future rather than the clinging to the comfy blanket of the past that has now gone.

Time to Pivot?

Written By: Bill - Date published: 12:42 pm, April 18th, 2020 - 11 comments

It would appear NZ and much of the rest of the world has made a first rather coincidental step on the AGW front.

The plan for Monday

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:43 am, April 18th, 2020 - 30 comments

Even if New Zealand gets out of the immediate Covid-19 infection better than most other countries, the result is still a wrecked world and a slow recovery. What we face is something like an Australian firefighter with a hose and a tanker facing an onrushing wall of flame: they successfully dampen down a defined circle […]

Open mike 18/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 18th, 2020 - 171 comments

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The Green Party list

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:10 am, April 17th, 2020 - 73 comments

The Green’s initial party list has three new candidates in the top ten.

Open mike 17/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 17th, 2020 - 302 comments

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A little relief.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 2:56 pm, April 16th, 2020 - 66 comments

Level 3 restrictions

Open mike 16/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 16th, 2020 - 247 comments

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Matthew’s Magic Numbers

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 7:15 pm, April 15th, 2020 - 43 comments

Matthew Hooton has tweeted a series of numbers. They add up to good news for the Government.

UPDATE: Curia Polling reckons it’s even better for Labour!

A response from the Rosa Luxemburg wing of the Labour Party

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 3:55 pm, April 15th, 2020 - 60 comments

According to Stephen Mills on Nine to Noon yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation as Labour leader will only be mourned by “the microscopic Rosa Luxemburg-worshipping far left sect in New Zealand.” His outburst was deliberate, gratuitous and way over the top.

Lockdown 4 – do we stay or do we go?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:37 am, April 15th, 2020 - 147 comments

Over the next few days there will be an intense public debate about whether the lockdown should be continued or loosened.

No Right Turn: Climate Change – the need for a green recovery

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:05 am, April 15th, 2020 - 7 comments

The Climate Change Commission – the expert panel tasked with getting New Zealand carbon neutral – has written to the government asking it to apply a “climate change lens” to the post-Covid-19 spend-up.

How Not to Engage in Public Debate

Written By: Incognito - Date published: 7:00 am, April 15th, 2020 - 95 comments

The best way to engage in public debate on the lockdown is to be open, clear, and transparent and show the facts. A press release full of beliefs and reckons is unhelpful and irresponsible.

What we were doing wasn’t working.

Written By: KJT - Date published: 6:32 am, April 15th, 2020 - 112 comments

After the lockdown, it is tempting to try and go back to what we had before. To the familiar and comfortable, especially for us that were comfortable. Forgetting that for so many, things were anything but, comfortable. That won’t be happening. “Before” no longer exists.

Open mike 15/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 15th, 2020 - 91 comments

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What Is This Moment Teaching Us?

Written By: advantage - Date published: 12:15 pm, April 14th, 2020 - 53 comments

What is Covid-19 telling us about our response as a nation?

Better footpaths and cycleways are a socialist inspired plot?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:06 am, April 14th, 2020 - 65 comments

National MP Simon O’Connor thinks that making under used streets safer for walkers and cyclers is a Socialist inspired plan for world domination.

Are the Vultures Already Circling Above?

Written By: Incognito - Date published: 7:00 am, April 14th, 2020 - 116 comments

We cannot go back to business as usual after the lockdown but can we shape the way things will be for the greater good?

Open mike 14/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 14th, 2020 - 183 comments

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Open mike 13/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 13th, 2020 - 205 comments

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Please sort this out MoH

Written By: weka - Date published: 1:18 pm, April 12th, 2020 - 85 comments

Frontline home care workers and their clients still don’t have adequate protection from covid.

Greenpeace’s Green Covid Response

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:34 am, April 12th, 2020 - 77 comments

Oil giant OMV finally leave New Zealand, and Greenpeace releases its Green Covid Response plan to the government.

Open mike 12/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 12th, 2020 - 236 comments

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New Zealand’s poor in this new crisis

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:16 am, April 11th, 2020 - 126 comments

Covid 19 is not some great leveller. To succeed the state has to completely redirect the economy to so that ordinary workers and working families are supported.

Open mike 11/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 11th, 2020 - 193 comments

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We are all socialists now II

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:21 pm, April 10th, 2020 - 18 comments

The Taxpayer’s Union has applied for government support to pay wages during the lockdown.

Open mike 10/04/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 10th, 2020 - 189 comments

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Has the EU failed during COVID-19?

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 5:16 am, April 10th, 2020 - 20 comments

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog

For global governance organisations, this is an important moment. This is the chance for them to demonstrate their worth and coordinate the response. In many ways how these structures respond becomes more important than the response of nation-states. This also is where the deficiencies and shortcomings of such organisations become very apparent. The noise coming from the EU in the last 48 hours is far from reassuring.