Open mike 03/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 3rd, 2021 - 57 comments
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We Need Better Politicians!
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Date published: 7:00 pm, August 2nd, 2021 - 24 comments
With the right people in power, we will get the answers we deserve, and our problems will melt away and scatter in a warm worriless wind.
Daily review 02/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 2nd, 2021 - 56 comments
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The latest Reid Research Poll result
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Date published: 8:30 am, August 2nd, 2021 - 134 comments
Last night’s Reid Research poll result suggests that the electorate is reverting back to a more conventional dynamic after the stratospheric heights that Labour enjoyed immediately post Covid elimination.
Open mike 02/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 2nd, 2021 - 95 comments
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Women’s Space
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Date published: 1:19 pm, August 1st, 2021 - 58 comments
A dedicated space on The Standard for women’s debate, and introducing the new feminist online space of Women’s Liberation Aotearoa.
Lies damned lies and Crime statistics
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Date published: 10:39 am, August 1st, 2021 - 13 comments
It should be an offence for political parties to deliberately misrepresent law and order statistics as National has done this week. It should be an aggravating feature if the party is a conservative party that champions law and order issues. After all fraud is an offence and if we don’t punish it appropriately then everyone will do it.
Open mike 01/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 1st, 2021 - 144 comments
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Open mike 31/07/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 31st, 2021 - 56 comments
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Daily review 30/07/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 30th, 2021 - 12 comments
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Nurses refuse pay offer
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 30th, 2021 - 28 comments
NZNO members who work in district health boards (DHBs) have voted by clear majority to reject the latest offer in their negotiations with the DHBs, saying it fails to address the chronic and systemic safe staffing issues in a way that would ensure and protect the future of the health system.
Open mike 30/07/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 30th, 2021 - 59 comments
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Are we really ready to escalate to war with China over Taiwan?
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Date published: 6:47 pm, July 29th, 2021 - 38 comments
“What will the role of New Zealand be should China invade Taiwan?” was by far the most popular question for Jacinda Ardern after she spoke at a NZIIA seminar last week. Promising to be benign, Ardern said we are “very predictable,” cited alleged human rights abuses in Hong Kong, and went on to say we […]
Daily review 29/07/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 29th, 2021 - 5 comments
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Citizenship is a human right
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Date published: 9:40 am, July 29th, 2021 - 81 comments
National has responded to the impending return to New Zealand of Suhayra Aden by hinting that they may follow Australia and breach human rights by bringing in laws allowing countries to arbitrarily remove rights of citizenship.
Open mike 29/07/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 29th, 2021 - 60 comments
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Daily review 28/07/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 28th, 2021 - 30 comments
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“We have to talk about sex. It’s important”
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Date published: 10:55 am, July 28th, 2021 - 145 comments
British philosophy professor Kathleen Stock being interviewed by Redline’s Daphna Whitmore on gender critical feminism and the sex/gender wars. Also, why being able to debate matters.
Open mike 28/07/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 28th, 2021 - 105 comments
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Daily review 27/07/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 27th, 2021 - 5 comments
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Letting private enterprise handle Covid quarantine is a really stupid idea
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Date published: 11:55 am, July 27th, 2021 - 31 comments
Leader of the Opposition David Seymour has proposed that private enterprise should provide quarantine services. The recent experience of Melbourne where private security firms failed dramatically to properly managed quarantine facilities suggests that this is a really stupid idea.
Why aren’t Labour acting on the housing crisis?
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Date published: 11:30 am, July 27th, 2021 - 68 comments
Bernard Hickey calls Labour’s inaction a scandal, and it’s hard to disagree.
Open mike 27/07/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 27th, 2021 - 32 comments
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Daily review 26/07/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 26th, 2021 - 12 comments
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Why isn’t govt hitting utes much harder?
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Date published: 7:52 am, July 26th, 2021 - 51 comments
Aotearoa has been super sizing its vehicle fleet for over a decade and given Jacinda Ardern claim that Climate Change as her generation’s nuclear-free moment, why is her government not smacking ute owners and other gas guzzlers much harder than the just the feebate? Large vehicles increase climate change and wild weather. Fringe Benefit tax is payable on them and usually not collected. Plus they are deadly dangerous to pedestrians and other vehicles.
Our modern Olympics
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Date published: 7:46 am, July 26th, 2021 - 7 comments
The Olympics is an opera that runs on one orchestrated symbol after another, and this Tokyo Olympics is a superabundant tragedy.
Open mike 26/07/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 26th, 2021 - 42 comments
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The many and varied takes of Des Gorman on covid
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Date published: 3:05 pm, July 25th, 2021 - 32 comments
A review of Des Gorman’s comments about Covid over the last 15 months, pretty well all of which have been negative, makes you wonder how it is possible that we have been able to maintain an effective Covid free status in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Open mike 25/07/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 25th, 2021 - 157 comments
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What If Boris Is Right?
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Date published: 11:51 am, July 24th, 2021 - 80 comments
Now that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has “opened up” the United Kingdom from many of the Covid19 strictures that it had undergone, there is a lot at stake to his reputation and indeed to the lives and livelihoods of its citizens.
The bubble pops
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Date published: 11:32 am, July 24th, 2021 - 32 comments
The appearance of community spread Delta variant Covid in Australia has caused New Zealand to suspend the trans Tasman travel bubble.
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