What Is This Moment Teaching Us?
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Date published: 12:15 pm, April 14th, 2020 - 53 comments
What is Covid-19 telling us about our response as a nation?
Better footpaths and cycleways are a socialist inspired plot?
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Date published: 8:06 am, April 14th, 2020 - 65 comments
National MP Simon O’Connor thinks that making under used streets safer for walkers and cyclers is a Socialist inspired plan for world domination.
Are the Vultures Already Circling Above?
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 14th, 2020 - 116 comments
We cannot go back to business as usual after the lockdown but can we shape the way things will be for the greater good?
Open mike 14/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 14th, 2020 - 183 comments
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Open mike 13/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 13th, 2020 - 205 comments
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Please sort this out MoH
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Date published: 1:18 pm, April 12th, 2020 - 85 comments
Frontline home care workers and their clients still don’t have adequate protection from covid.
Greenpeace’s Green Covid Response
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Date published: 10:34 am, April 12th, 2020 - 77 comments
Oil giant OMV finally leave New Zealand, and Greenpeace releases its Green Covid Response plan to the government.
Open mike 12/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 12th, 2020 - 236 comments
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New Zealand’s poor in this new crisis
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Date published: 9:16 am, April 11th, 2020 - 126 comments
Covid 19 is not some great leveller. To succeed the state has to completely redirect the economy to so that ordinary workers and working families are supported.
Open mike 11/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 11th, 2020 - 193 comments
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We are all socialists now II
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Date published: 8:21 pm, April 10th, 2020 - 18 comments
The Taxpayer’s Union has applied for government support to pay wages during the lockdown.
Open mike 10/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 10th, 2020 - 189 comments
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Has the EU failed during COVID-19?
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Date published: 5:16 am, April 10th, 2020 - 20 comments
Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog
For global governance organisations, this is an important moment. This is the chance for them to demonstrate their worth and coordinate the response. In many ways how these structures respond becomes more important than the response of nation-states. This also is where the deficiencies and shortcomings of such organisations become very apparent. The noise coming from the EU in the last 48 hours is far from reassuring.
National’s Petition is Cynical Populism
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Date published: 12:45 pm, April 9th, 2020 - 124 comments
National is trying to steal show political leadership and relevance by launching a petition.
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National seeks delay to election
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Date published: 7:38 am, April 9th, 2020 - 120 comments
Hot on the news that National’s polling has plunged to 35% Paula Bennett has publicly suggested that the election should be delayed. I wonder if they are related?
Tourism is the elephant in the living room
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Date published: 7:10 am, April 9th, 2020 - 148 comments
Rather than saving an industry that has multiple sustainability and resiliency failures, how about we regenerate local economies and set them to serve our communities?
Open mike 09/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 9th, 2020 - 249 comments
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Pandemics are no a time for inward-looking nationalism
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Date published: 4:37 am, April 9th, 2020 - 41 comments
Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s Blog
Trump is focused on the November US Presidential Election. His anti-Chinese, nationalist, America First rhetoric is his go-to response to keep his political base onside. He is placing his political ambition ahead of millions of lives both in the US and globally. Trump has placed electoral politics ahead of leadership that could save millions of lives.
From the inside out
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Date published: 10:32 am, April 8th, 2020 - 62 comments
I feel that many kiwis are quite unaware exactly how exceptional our plague performance has been so far. It is interesting reading the perspective published in the Washington Post by a recently returned kiwi. Less interesting was the mathematical illiteracy on the MP David Seymour who managed to ignore all medical facts while advising on how to bulk kill our citizens.
The end of partisan politics?
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Date published: 7:58 am, April 8th, 2020 - 71 comments
Throughout the world there is an increasing consensus emerging that the free market approach is failing and principled intelligent leadership from governments provide the optimum result.
Open mike 08/04/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 8th, 2020 - 304 comments
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Depression looms as rapidly as Covid spreads
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Date published: 10:45 am, April 7th, 2020 - 93 comments
New Zealand, like many other nations, is hurtling towards economic depression faster than Covid-19 spreads. “We are going to have a depression”. “This is like an asteroid hit the global economy”. “We can print our way of this”. Reflections on what lies ahead by Simon Louisson, Bernard Hickey and others.
Clark’s calamity
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Date published: 7:48 am, April 7th, 2020 - 131 comments
Health Minister David Clark has been demoted but has kept his Health portfolio after he revealed that he had driven 20 kilometers with his family to visit a beach during the lock down.
Open mike 07/04/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 7th, 2020 - 163 comments
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Two Bubbles Bridges’ Big Day Out
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Date published: 6:05 pm, April 6th, 2020 - 67 comments
Simon ‘Two Bubbles’ Bridges feels he’s entitled to flaunt the rules because he’s, ahem, essential.
Beyond mere rescue
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Date published: 8:49 am, April 6th, 2020 - 78 comments
It’s time to plan the re-launch the very idea of New Zealand.
Open mike 06/04/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 6th, 2020 - 239 comments
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Bill Gates – lets prevent the next inevitable epidemic!
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Date published: 9:56 pm, April 5th, 2020 - 37 comments
Bill and Melinda Gates have been plowing wealth into mitigating and preventing epidemics over the last decade. Like the World Health Organisation and just about anyone with any sense of medical history, he predicted very accurately the type of epidemic we are now facing – a worldwide respiratory pandemic. He talks about the current pandemic, and how to prevent the next one.
Children: the pandemic has only just begun
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Date published: 11:09 am, April 5th, 2020 - 113 comments
I’m always intrigued at the capacity of most humans to be self-delusional in the way that they favour to believe regardless of facts. Nothing else could explain the delusional idiots like David Farrar and his mischievous minions wanting to go back to their business as usual – their ministerial scalp collection. It’d be nice if such dimwits thought and established facts before they wrote.
What not to do in a pandemic
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Date published: 8:51 am, April 5th, 2020 - 100 comments
The Trump regime has this week plunged new depths in the handling of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Open mike 05/04/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 5th, 2020 - 231 comments
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