Open mike 06/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2024 - 52 comments
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Daily review 05/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 5th, 2024 - 9 comments
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Another Minister lauds their own incompetence
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Date published: 4:36 pm, August 5th, 2024 - 32 comments
Another minister is lauding themselves falsely. David Seymour bragged about school attendance at the start of term three, and claiming the credit for that happening. The problem is that it was worse than the attendance for the start of term two. It was a worse school attendance after he tried to improve attendance. Is he competent as a minister?
Mountain Tui: New Zealanders are now dying from an underfunded health system
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Date published: 12:41 pm, August 5th, 2024 - 5 comments
After months of warnings from doctors, nurses and hospitals, a Northland patient is dead after no doctors were present at the hospital. The budget cuts and chosen austerity measures are hurting us all. Here’s more.
Open mike 05/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 5th, 2024 - 81 comments
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The Promises of Lange, Moore, Bolger, and the WTO
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Date published: 9:15 am, August 4th, 2024 - 26 comments
In 2024 we ought to ask if the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s has delivered on what was promised.
Open mike 04/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 4th, 2024 - 3 comments
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About Karen Chhour’s future
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Date published: 11:06 am, August 3rd, 2024 - 27 comments
Act minister Karen Chhour has recently adopted the mantle of victimhood and claimed that she has been under attack and feels unsafe in Parliament. But the attacks are not personal and are motivated by the damage her party is causing to Oranga Tamariki as well as to the country’s race relations.
Open mike 03/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 3rd, 2024 - 21 comments
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Daily review 02/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 2nd, 2024 - 9 comments
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ALP knows how to redress wrongs. NZ dithers
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Date published: 7:15 am, August 2nd, 2024 - 5 comments
God Bless the ALP, Bill Shorten and all the Labour MP’s across the ditch for tackling the real issues facing people with disabilities in Australia. It takes courage, fortitude, a good heart to seek redress to wrongs done to the weakest amongst us. They are taking those steps.
NZ government are just good at dithering.
Open mike 02/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 2nd, 2024 - 31 comments
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Daily review 01/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 1st, 2024 - 13 comments
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Luxon is accused of spreading “disinformation”
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Date published: 10:47 am, August 1st, 2024 - 21 comments
The PM of NZ is accused of spreading intentional disinformation on Health NZ as the evidence piles up against the Coalition government. Here’s how it went down.
Act plays the race card and the victim card
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Date published: 10:14 am, August 1st, 2024 - 27 comments
Yesterday in Parliament was pretty weird. Act MPs staged a show down event and expressed increasing dissatisfaction with their Government’s speaker Gerry Brownlee.
Open mike 01/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 1st, 2024 - 72 comments
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Daily review 31/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 31st, 2024 - 17 comments
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Open mike 31/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 31st, 2024 - 63 comments
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Daily review 30/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 30th, 2024 - 6 comments
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Woefully misinformed or intentionally mangling the truth?
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Date published: 9:24 am, July 30th, 2024 - 26 comments
Senior medical figures have questioned the accuracy of what the Government is saying about the health crisis in Northland. And in an example of unbelievably bad timing it has been revealed that the Goverment put aside $216 million to fund a exise duty reduction for Phillip Morris.
Open mike 30/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 30th, 2024 - 25 comments
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Daily review 29/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 29th, 2024 - 6 comments
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Mountain Tui: Who will hold Chris Luxon and Shane Reti accountable for the Health NZ deception?
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Date published: 5:20 pm, July 29th, 2024 - 21 comments
Since Shane Reti and Christopher Luxon announced the Health NZ cost “blowout” and an unexpected deficit, the truth has emerged, and it’s all becomes stranger than fiction. Which claims were accurate? And which seemed to be a case of misrepresentation?
Open mike 29/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 29th, 2024 - 52 comments
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They are going to privatise health, aren’t they
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Date published: 4:28 pm, July 28th, 2024 - 50 comments
This Government continues its trend to resembling something akin to Liz Truss’s rule of England. And Health is clearly among its targets.
Open mike 28/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 28th, 2024 - 55 comments
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A short history of National’s fascination with boot camps
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Date published: 10:05 am, July 27th, 2024 - 24 comments
Just as with the Three Strikes Policy National has never seen an irrational itch it will not scratch for political advantage. Despite the reality.
Open mike 27/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 27th, 2024 - 41 comments
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Daily review 26/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 26th, 2024 - 14 comments
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National sneakily reduces child poverty targets
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Date published: 9:12 am, July 26th, 2024 - 19 comments
It has emerged that National has sneakily reduced child poverty targets.
Open mike 26/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 26th, 2024 - 14 comments
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