Open mike 23/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 23rd, 2020 - 131 comments
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Colmar Brunton poll: Labour still way ahead
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Date published: 6:04 pm, September 22nd, 2020 - 90 comments
Judith will not enjoy this poll result.
Daily review 22/09/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 22nd, 2020 - 21 comments
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How low can National go?
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Date published: 7:44 am, September 22nd, 2020 - 43 comments
With news of a second mistake in National’s draft budget its campaign is in trouble and support for other right wing parties appears to be surging. Update: Stuff is reporting a further $3.9 billion dollar mistake …
Open mike 22/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 22nd, 2020 - 87 comments
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Daily review 21/09/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 21st, 2020 - 33 comments
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Open mike 21/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 21st, 2020 - 219 comments
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Paora Goldsmith is National’s $4 billion dollar man
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Date published: 4:17 pm, September 20th, 2020 - 116 comments
Paul Goldsmith has blighted National’s campaign launch by making a $4 billion dollar mistake in National’s budget costings.
The Auckland Central Poll
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Date published: 9:08 am, September 20th, 2020 - 33 comments
A Reid Research poll has suggested that Helen White is well ahead of Emma Mellow and Chloe Swarbrick and that Labour’s support is still sky high.
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Matters Here
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Date published: 8:28 am, September 20th, 2020 - 27 comments
RBG’s death was an important event for women here because it happened on the anniversary of Women’s Suffrage Day 126 years ago. On this day in New Zealand we celebrate women being able to vote, the women who won further victories of political liberation, and many got together to recount our female heroes enabled by that right and all those rights that followed.
Open mike 20/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 20th, 2020 - 166 comments
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National’s lolly scramble tax cuts
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Date published: 8:34 am, September 19th, 2020 - 55 comments
Despite claiming that the PREFU figures were catastrophic and despite stating a month ago that it would not do this National has come out with a policy of temporary tax cuts favouring the rich. They must be desperate.
Open mike 19/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 19th, 2020 - 104 comments
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Daily review 18/09/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 18th, 2020 - 22 comments
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Reti’s running
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Date published: 7:50 am, September 18th, 2020 - 62 comments
Yesterday Shane Reti ignited leadership rumours after he was asked if he wanted to be National leader and did not pledge support for existing leader Judith Collins.
Choosing ‘enough’ rather than ‘more’
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Date published: 6:05 am, September 18th, 2020 - 104 comments
A brief look at steady state economics and the values of enough rather than more.
Open mike 18/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 18th, 2020 - 62 comments
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Daily review 17/09/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 17th, 2020 - 65 comments
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Greens: expanding living wage beyond public service with Fair Pay Agreements
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Date published: 9:53 am, September 17th, 2020 - 16 comments
The Green Party welcome Labour’s commitment to extend the living wage to Government contractors, but will push for Fair Pay Agreements across industries in the next Government so more New Zealanders can earn a dignified income.
Open mike 17/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 17th, 2020 - 149 comments
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Daily review 16/09/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 16th, 2020 - 3 comments
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Grant Robertson’s crisis leadership
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Date published: 4:45 pm, September 16th, 2020 - 22 comments
Much has rightly been made of the leadership quality of Prime Minister Ardern this year. But the PREFU results announced today shows that Minister of FInance Grant Robertson is by a long way the most effective Minister of Finance we have had since Dr Michael Cullen.
The PREFU is much better than National wanted
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Date published: 4:33 pm, September 16th, 2020 - 51 comments
The Prefu is out! And it is not as scary as National would have wanted.
What just happened with Israel?
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Date published: 7:21 am, September 16th, 2020 - 40 comments
Just two months before election day, Donald Trump appears to have won a diplomatic coup in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have normalised relations with the state of Israel.
Open mike 16/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 16th, 2020 - 70 comments
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Daily review 15/09/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 15th, 2020 - 13 comments
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Taxpayer’s Union is wasting taxpayers’ money
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Date published: 9:24 am, September 15th, 2020 - 35 comments
The Taxpayer’s Union, which claims to be opposed to Government waste, is wasting taxpayer’s resources by lodging a spurious complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority against Labour’s free apprenticeship policy.
Greenpeace on the Green Party’s Farm for the Future policy
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Date published: 9:21 am, September 15th, 2020 - 58 comments
“Wildfires are burning across the world and our rivers and lakes have been pushed to the brink. This is no time for half measures. Phasing out the use of PKE is exactly the kind of bold and transformational policy that is needed to deal with the climate and freshwater crises.”
Open mike 15/09/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 15th, 2020 - 141 comments
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Daily review 14/09/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 14th, 2020 - 27 comments
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National’s Upper Harbour problem
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Date published: 8:31 am, September 14th, 2020 - 41 comments
This has been quite a year for National. It is onto its third leader, has lost a slew of experienced MPs, and has had other MPs resign in curious circumstances. And now it appears that it has a crisis involving its Upper Harbour candidate, Jake Bezzant.
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