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- Luxon announces start of India trade deal talks
Long stories shortest in Aotearoa’s political economy: Christopher Luxon surprises by announcing trade deal talks with India will start next month, and include beef and dairy. Napier is set to join Whakatane, Dunedin and Westport in staging a protest march against health spending restraints hitting their hospital services. Winston Peters ...7 days ago - In a divided world, momentum behind negotiations grows
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When the City Rail Link opens (circa 2026), all signs point to it immediately being a huge success. It will be transformational for Auckland, with ripple effects across the city. Thousands of people an hour will pour in and out of the new and upgraded stations. So, as well as ...7 days ago - Bernard’s Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on March 17
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A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 9, 2025 thru Sat, March 15, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. We are still interested ...1 week ago - Maxing out – next steps for progressives
Max Harris and Max Rashbrooke discuss how we turn around the right wing slogans like nanny state, woke identity politics, and the inefficiency of the public sector – and how we build a progressive agenda. From Donald Trump to David Seymour, from Peter Dutton to Christopher Luxon, we are subject to a ...1 week ago - Bernard’s Soliloquy for the week to March 16
The Government dominated the political agenda this week with its two-day conference pitching all manner of public infrastructure projects for Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāLong stories shortest in our political economy this week: The Government ploughed ahead with offers of PPPs to pension fund managers ...1 week ago - Eating Like Kings
You know that it's a snake eat snake worldWe slither and serpentine throughWe all took a bite, and six thousand years laterThese apples getting harder to chewSongwriters: Shawn Mavrides.“Please be Jack Tame”, I thought when I saw it was Seymour appearing on Q&A. I’d had a guts full of the ...1 week ago - David now turns to Rodney with a stricken face
So here we are at the wedding of Alexandra Vincent Martelli and David Seymour.Look at all the happy prosperous guests! How proud Nick Mowbray looks of the gift he has made of a mountain of crap plastic toys stuffed into a Cybertruck.How they drink, how they laugh, how they mug ...1 week ago - Fact brief – Is waste heat from industrial activity the reason the planet is warming?
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“Bugger the pollsters!”WHEN EVERYBODY LIVED in villages, and every village had a graveyard, the expression “whistling past the graveyard” made more sense. Even so, it’s hard to describe the Coalition Government’s response to the latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia Research poll any better. Regardless of whether they wanted to go there, or ...1 week ago - Jane Kelsey – Transforming neoliberalism
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- Labour draws a clear line in the sand on National’s privatisation binge
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- Making it up as they go along
1. Why was school lunch provider The Libelle Group in the news this week?a. Grand Winner in Pie of The Yearb. Scored a record 108% on YELP c. Bought by Oravida d. Went into liquidation2. What did our Prime Minister offer prospective investors at his infrastructure investment jamboree?a. The Libelle ...1 week ago - Arbitrary or worse
Back in December, Lands Minister Chris Penk rejected proposals to recognise the proper names of Manawatū and Pito One. Both proposals were strongly supported by their communities and so recommended by Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa / New Zealand Geographic Board. Despite this, Penk rejected them. I was curious about ...1 week ago - The problems with PPPs
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- PPPs are more expensive, slower & riskier than Govt DIY
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- Birds and Bees Grounded
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- Drawn
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- Thursday 13 March
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- My life as a dog
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- Global & Corporate Takeover of New Zealand Continues In Plain Sight
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- Wednesday 12 March
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- Australia needs to prevent cybercrime, not just react to it
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- RNZ to run new series of political polls
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The fishing arm of South Island iwi Ngāi Tahu has blown the whistle on the state of the Bluff oyster fishery and cancelled its harvest – but some in the industry claim it’s shaping up to be the best season in years.The Bluff oyster/tio season traditionally runs from March 1 to August ...3 days ago
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- New Zealand’s greatest invention: a monetary policy framework?
RBNZ chief economist Paul Conway joins Bernard Hickey to talk monetary policy, quantitative easing, the state of inflation and the RBNZ’s relationship with the government. This week on When the Facts Change, Bernard Hickey chews the monetary policy fat with returning guest Reserve Bank chief economist Paul Conway. Was ...3 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bonny Parkinson, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University The United States pharmaceutical lobby has complained to US President Donald Trump that Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) is damaging their profits and has urged Trump to put tariffs ...3 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Scott, Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Talks of a trade dispute between the United States and Australia over the cost of medicines have no doubt left many Australians scratching ...3 days ago
- Grattan on Friday: Dutton says he could handle Donald Trump, but can any Australian PM?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In the Trump age, how the next government, whether Labor or Coalition, will handle foreign affairs, defence and trade is shaping as crucially important. It’s a weird time when your friends become almost as ...3 days ago
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COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Today I attended a demonstration outside both Aotearoa New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in Wellington. The day before, the Israelis had blown apart 174 children in Gaza in a surprise attack that announced the next phase of the genocide. ...3 days ago
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- PM stresses value of sports diplomacy as he bats a few balls at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai
New Zealand and India will be celebrating 100 years of sporting relations this year. ...3 days ago
- PM stresses the value of sports diplomacy as he bats a few balls at the iconic Wankhede stadium in M...
New Zealand and India will be celebrating 100 years of sporting relations this year. ...3 days ago
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