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Date published: 6:00 am, August 13th, 2021 - 36 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 12th, 2021 - 10 comments
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Date published: 10:58 am, August 12th, 2021 - 93 comments
Details on the government’s plan for New Zealand’s borders, and the Delta variant of Covid.
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Date published: 8:13 am, August 12th, 2021 - 165 comments
National, the party that claims to be focussed on the issues that matter decided to get upset when the Greens requested the replacement of a picture of a former UK leader who had a reputation for engaging in crimes against humanity.
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Date published: 7:13 am, August 12th, 2021 - 45 comments
New Zealand has one of the most concentrated and oligopolistic economies in the world, and also one of the least commercially protected societies. Will we ever be able to break out of it? If you look across our society, it is the relationships of less than 20 main companies with our government that form a […]
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 12th, 2021 - 81 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 11th, 2021 - 12 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 11th, 2021 - 79 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 10th, 2021 - 8 comments
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Date published: 1:49 pm, August 10th, 2021 - 104 comments
Minister Woods and Prime Minister Ardern have been reduced to asking a series of questions about why Transpower got major electricity providers to drastically cut power last night.
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Date published: 11:44 am, August 10th, 2021 - 23 comments
There’s so many of them here – Guyon Espiner, Anna Fifield, Lucy Craymer, Sam Sachdeva, Laura Walters, John Daniell, Emile Donovan, Paula Penfold, reef fish with the same few sources. Australian Paul Strutynski provides the textbook in his “Guide for budding foreign policy journalists wanting to work for the Nine Network or Newscorp.”
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Date published: 6:05 am, August 10th, 2021 - 130 comments
As the IPCC drops its grim, damning report on humans and climate change, and as we are surrounded by social and mainstream media narratives of disaster, we desperately need cogent and hopeful visions of where we can go next, and stories of futures where things work out.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 10th, 2021 - 78 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 9th, 2021 - 29 comments
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Date published: 9:08 am, August 9th, 2021 - 25 comments
In an extraordinary move National’s board has reselected Peter Goodfellow as Party Chairperson and this has caused former MP David Carter to resign as board member and express no confidence in the leadership or in National’s chances at the next election.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2021 - 99 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2021 - 49 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 7th, 2021 - 134 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 6th, 2021 - 3 comments
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Date published: 8:28 am, August 6th, 2021 - 59 comments
Back in the day National used to have a strong urban liberal wing that gave the impression that it was sympathetic to LGBTQI issues. Yesterday that impression was trashed.
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Date published: 6:10 am, August 6th, 2021 - 97 comments
Rather than economics, can we talk about the values that underlie how we manage the country?
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2021 - 37 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 5th, 2021 - 9 comments
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Date published: 8:28 am, August 5th, 2021 - 84 comments
Yesterday Statistics New Zealand announced a dramatic drip in the unemployment rate as well as solid increases in wage rates and average weekly earnings for workers. While the Government celebrated Employers thought it was a crisis.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 5th, 2021 - 120 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 4th, 2021 - 7 comments
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Date published: 10:43 am, August 4th, 2021 - 22 comments
The nasty, brutish and short meme is a failure of the imagination. We can have less and still live good lives.
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Date published: 8:04 am, August 4th, 2021 - 43 comments
Judith Collins has decided to attack the Government on the use of the Te Reo name for New Zealand even though the last National Government regularised its use.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 4th, 2021 - 115 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 3rd, 2021 - 35 comments
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Date published: 7:44 am, August 3rd, 2021 - 38 comments
This will have the conspiracy theorists spinning. Youtube have stopped Murdoch’s Sky News Australia from uploading videos for the next seven days after the channel uploaded videos questioning Covid and advocating for the use of alternative medicines including Donald Trump’s favourite hydroxychloroquine
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