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Date published: 11:04 am, March 17th, 2021 - 71 comments
Over the past week National and the Greens have released housing policy designed to address the country’s current housing crisis. National’s are tired and either reflect what is already happening or reinforce their doctrinal view of the world. The Green’s proposals are more radical and reflect steps that Micky Savage and the First Labour Government took in 1935.
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 17th, 2021 - 44 comments
Did New Zealand military forces do good in Afghanistan?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 17th, 2021 - 36 comments
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Date published: 8:42 pm, March 16th, 2021 - 45 comments
Media claims that Ardern’s support have peaked and are tanking are way too premature.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 16th, 2021 - 34 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 16th, 2021 - 139 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 15th, 2021 - 4 comments
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Date published: 2:16 pm, March 15th, 2021 - 5 comments
Today marks the second anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque shooting.
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Date published: 11:28 am, March 15th, 2021 - 19 comments
Vaccines have had a place in diplomacy since the Cold War. The country that can manufacture and distribute lifesaving injections to others less fortunate sees a return on its investment in the form of soft power. Today the country moving fastest towards consolidating these gains may be China.
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Date published: 9:45 am, March 15th, 2021 - 8 comments
The weekend state elections in West Australia are a astonishing landslide. On top of nearly a 13% two party swing swing for Labour in 2017, there appears to have been about a 17% swing to Labour in the weekend election in preliminary results. The Liberals are likely to be left with just 2 seats in a 59 seat Assembly. The main opposition party, now the National party, with 3 seats.
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Date published: 6:10 am, March 15th, 2021 - 37 comments
Sarah Everard’s death has been a touchpaper that has ignited the ever present anger in women at having to live in a world that is fundamentally unsafe for us simply on the basis of our sex.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 15th, 2021 - 65 comments
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Date published: 6:04 am, March 14th, 2021 - 49 comments
I believe, as our first Labour Government did, that everyone has the right “to a life” regardless of their perceived ,”value”.
In our country, with its excess of resources and capability, we have no excuse for poverty.
For leaving people behind.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 14th, 2021 - 76 comments
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Date published: 4:20 pm, March 13th, 2021 - 96 comments
The bright-line test is a red herring and does nothing to deter housing speculation.
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Date published: 8:39 am, March 13th, 2021 - 18 comments
Chris Bishop is claiming credit for Labour finishing a deal whereby the party rented premises to Parliamentary Services for the use of Gillian Anderson MP at a level well below market rates.
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 13th, 2021 - 8 comments
it looks like just 1.5 degrees will be enough to cook most of the tropics:
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 13th, 2021 - 64 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 12th, 2021 - 2 comments
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Date published: 12:50 pm, March 12th, 2021 - 77 comments
Government should have announced the decision for Auckland to go down to Level 1 first thing this morning.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 12th, 2021 - 40 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 11th, 2021 - 11 comments
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Date published: 4:36 pm, March 11th, 2021 - 50 comments
Expecting a bit much aren’t you? We haven’t had that since Muldoon. At least he had them. The kind of people now asking for a plan were those who complained about governments that “interfered with the sacred ‘free market’” and screamed about “central planning”, “picking winners”, “protectionism” etc. They prefer just getting cheap labour to give the illusion of economic growth. And build a cycleway!
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Date published: 7:31 am, March 11th, 2021 - 72 comments
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said New Zealanders have an unfettered ability to travel to Australia for a holiday. Reality would suggest that he is wrong.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 11th, 2021 - 24 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 10th, 2021 - 2 comments
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Date published: 3:30 pm, March 10th, 2021 - 6 comments
Minister Parker is firing an 18 inch gun round that he’s ready to take on all with his call-in of the Otago water rights plan change.
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Date published: 7:35 am, March 10th, 2021 - 27 comments
National’s review of its 2020 election performance has been completed. And as an indication of the level of faith existing in the party MPs may not be given their own copy.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 10th, 2021 - 51 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 9th, 2021 - 13 comments
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Date published: 7:45 am, March 9th, 2021 - 99 comments
Newstalk ZB, Mike Hosking and Barry Soper are shocked, I tell you, shocked that Jacinda Ardern will no longer regularly appear on the Mike Hosking show.
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