Daily review 24/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 24th, 2024 - 11 comments
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Open mike 24/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 24th, 2024 - 27 comments
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Open mike 23/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2024 - 28 comments
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What the Aratere Grounding Means
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Date published: 4:24 pm, June 22nd, 2024 - 67 comments
The grounding of the ferry Aratere is potentially a political gift to National.
When you remove nuts & bolts, things tend to fall over
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Date published: 11:51 am, June 22nd, 2024 - 21 comments
Nuts and loose screws are holding together this callous coalition government.
Open mike 22/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 22nd, 2024 - 39 comments
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Daily review 21/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 21st, 2024 - 5 comments
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Open mike 21/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2024 - 16 comments
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Democracy in Dire Straits
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Date published: 7:27 pm, June 20th, 2024 - 59 comments
Like an auto-immune disease, democracy can attack itself with dire consequences.
Daily review 20/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 20th, 2024 - 3 comments
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Gotta pay for those tax cuts for landlords somehow
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Date published: 8:36 am, June 20th, 2024 - 16 comments
What is the lowest most disgraceful thing this Government has done? How about cutting funding for top ups of the wages of disabled workers aimed to get them to the living wage?
Open mike 20/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 20th, 2024 - 54 comments
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Daily review 19/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 19th, 2024 - 10 comments
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C Listers and tag alongs
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Date published: 11:01 am, June 19th, 2024 - 28 comments
Christopher Luxon has accused senior business leaders who travelled with a trade delegation with Chris Hipkins of being “C listers and tag alongs”.
Open mike 19/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 19th, 2024 - 37 comments
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Daily review 18/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 18th, 2024 - 8 comments
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Who would have thought that he used to run an airline?
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Date published: 2:06 pm, June 18th, 2024 - 26 comments
Last year Christopher Luxon said that he would not use Defence Force planes to travel internationally if elected as prime minister. Turns out that this is not actually true.
Open mike 18/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 18th, 2024 - 48 comments
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Daily review 17/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 17th, 2024 - 11 comments
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Open mike 17/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 17th, 2024 - 37 comments
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Safer streets or unsafer streets?
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Date published: 9:56 am, June 16th, 2024 - 18 comments
The Government is planning to reverse Labour’s previous policy relating to permanent safe speeds around schools. The change will decrease safety and walking and cycling and increase car use. And the upside is?
Do the EU elections matter in Britain?
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Date published: 9:03 am, June 16th, 2024 - 15 comments
Last weekend the EU elections saw a significant increase in support for the populist/alt-right in European elections.
I deliberately avoid using the term far-right. It would be too simplistic and inaccurate to paint a picture of Europe re-living the 1930s and entering fascism. It is not.
Open mike 16/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 16th, 2024 - 15 comments
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Health & safety of workers is apparently about Cones
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Date published: 11:19 am, June 15th, 2024 - 37 comments
The Government’s latest announcement about worker safety is about business, not people.
Open mike 15/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 15th, 2024 - 3 comments
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Daily review 14/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 14th, 2024 - 6 comments
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Open mike 14/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 14th, 2024 - 48 comments
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Daily review 13/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 13th, 2024 - 5 comments
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National announced more subsidies in farming for capital gains
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Date published: 2:29 pm, June 13th, 2024 - 19 comments
National and their minion parties just announced another massive $400 million R&D subsidy for agricultural greenhouse gases by taxpayers for the low profit industry of pastoral farming. This joins the other large and hidden subsidies levied on tax and rate payers to support rural and state roads capable of sustained heavy agricultural and forestry trucks.
Haere ra He Wake Eke Noa
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Date published: 1:42 pm, June 13th, 2024 - 21 comments
It was always going to happen but it still rankles that an attempt to get farming to at least confront the damage it causes to the climate is being put on hold.
Open mike 13/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 13th, 2024 - 63 comments
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