Open mike 11/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 11th, 2024 - 108 comments
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Daily review 10/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 10th, 2024 - 5 comments
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Towards the abyss
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Date published: 12:34 pm, September 10th, 2024 - 37 comments
Yesterday it was confirmed that Act’s Treaty Principles Bill had been approved by Cabinet for drafting and introduction into Parliament in November this year. Get ready for the circus to start.
Open mike 10/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 10th, 2024 - 49 comments
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Daily review 09/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 9th, 2024 - 11 comments
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A new Labour electricity policy
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Date published: 10:19 am, September 9th, 2024 - 70 comments
Proposed policy for the Labour Party. New Zealand’s power system should empower the people in their lives and systems, secure electricity use and production for New Zealand in perpetuity, and make the electricity system serve New Zealand not the other way round. How do we achieve this?
Open mike 09/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 9th, 2024 - 13 comments
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Open mike 08/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 8th, 2024 - 25 comments
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Unions are still relevant
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Date published: 5:50 pm, September 7th, 2024 - 26 comments
Unions have fought for the rights of employees in the past, present, and future.
Open mike 07/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 7th, 2024 - 48 comments
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Daily review 06/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 6th, 2024 - 7 comments
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Gormless Government releases confidential legal advice on Charter School law
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Date published: 9:30 am, September 6th, 2024 - 31 comments
The Government has mistakenly released confidential legal advice confirming that the Charter School legislation breaches ILO conventions, free trade agreements and potentially the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.
Open mike 06/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 6th, 2024 - 48 comments
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Daily review 05/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 5th, 2024 - 7 comments
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Guess who needs help with his literacy and numeracy?
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Date published: 10:37 am, September 5th, 2024 - 76 comments
Remember when Christopher Luxon told the National Party that we had a maths teaching crisis? Experts have concluded that the statement is misleading. And an OIA dump suggests that behind the scenes there is an attempt to radically rewrite the existing curriculum.
Open mike 05/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 5th, 2024 - 51 comments
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Daily review 04/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 4th, 2024 - 17 comments
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Shane Jones is obsessed with communists
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Date published: 1:50 pm, September 4th, 2024 - 20 comments
Shane Jones has been getting into the news recently after his comment that High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn was a communist made at a private meeting was revealed in the media. He has been called out by Judith Collins and Winston Peters but surprisingly not by Christopher Luxon.
Willis’s Bungling of the Kiwirail Interislander Cancellation
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Date published: 9:23 am, September 4th, 2024 - 26 comments
Nicola Willis’s bungling of the Kiwirail Interislander project cancellation has so far cost Kiwis $1bn, but that’s not all. Today RNZ’s reporting reveals the government may have also undermined NZ’s relationship with South Korea.
Open mike 04/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 4th, 2024 - 69 comments
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Daily review 03/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 3rd, 2024 - 2 comments
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National’s eternal road obsession
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Date published: 8:58 am, September 3rd, 2024 - 39 comments
The year is 2035 and after the McAnaulty-Sepuloni Government is removed from power new National Prime Minister Simeon Brown makes his first new announcement. Guess what it is?
Open mike 03/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 3rd, 2024 - 43 comments
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Daily review 02/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 2nd, 2024 - 12 comments
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Let’s Talk About Tax
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Date published: 4:08 pm, September 2nd, 2024 - 44 comments
Yes, Labour can restore its woeful tax position.
Open mike 02/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 2nd, 2024 - 15 comments
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How can you forget $178,394 in campaign donations?
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Date published: 9:53 am, September 1st, 2024 - 16 comments
This is going to take some explaining. The police have decided to take no action against National MP David MacLeod for failing to declare $178,394 in electoral donations. No this is not an Onion headline.
Open mike 01/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 1st, 2024 - 8 comments
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In memory of Norm Kirk
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Date published: 4:11 pm, August 31st, 2024 - 16 comments
Today marks the day 50 years ago when former Labour Prime Minister Norm Kirk died.
About David Parker’s and Labour’s debate about taxation
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Date published: 10:58 am, August 31st, 2024 - 69 comments
Guest post by Nigel Haworth discussing recent publicity given to the Labour Party’s debate around tax reform.
Open mike 31/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 31st, 2024 - 26 comments
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