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Date published: 7:00 am, February 7th, 2020 - 44 comments
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Date published: 7:05 am, February 6th, 2020 - 45 comments
As Southland starts post-flood recovery, the question arises of why 10,000 tonnes of waste known to become toxic on exposure to water was allowed to be stored on the banks of a river with known flood risk in a building with known flood risk?
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 6th, 2020 - 126 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 5th, 2020 - 14 comments
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Date published: 11:36 am, February 5th, 2020 - 46 comments
A party that detests one of its Presidential nominees. A media establishment that’s largely a propaganda arm of that party. And games…stupid games.
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Date published: 9:04 am, February 5th, 2020 - 93 comments
Yesterday the political parties were welcomed onto the upper Marae at Waitangi. Jacinda Ardern took the occasion to give a stock take of what the Government was doing to address Iwi concerns, Andrew Little gave his speech totally in te reo, and Simon Bridges chose to use the opportunity to politic.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 5th, 2020 - 87 comments
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Date published: 6:07 pm, February 4th, 2020 - 21 comments
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Date published: 11:34 am, February 4th, 2020 - 70 comments
These past few years anyone might be forgiven for believing liberals have never heard of King Canute. How else to explain their stupid resistance to inevitable change? And now…
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 4th, 2020 - 86 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 3rd, 2020 - 11 comments
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Date published: 11:36 am, February 3rd, 2020 - 26 comments
At the 2019 election the BBC had an opportunity to show the world what quality political journalism looks like in the 21st century. It failed. The consequences for this could be dire for the Beeb.
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Date published: 7:30 am, February 3rd, 2020 - 104 comments
It’s not often you find New Zealanders who give every single breath they have to the left and do it with resounding and even global success. Such a person was Mike Moore.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 3rd, 2020 - 59 comments
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Date published: 3:46 pm, February 2nd, 2020 - 103 comments
Simon Bridges has mimicked John Key and ruled out National working with NZ First after the election. The difference is however that back then Key ruled out working with NZ First because NZ First was involved in a SFO investigation about the hiding of a $100,000 donation. This time it is National.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 2nd, 2020 - 19 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 2nd, 2020 - 64 comments
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Date published: 3:17 pm, February 1st, 2020 - 33 comments
Simon Bridges has stated that National wants to pay the undeclared $100,000 donation back but even though nearly two years have passed since it was made it still remains unrepaid.
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 1st, 2020 - 68 comments
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Date published: 7:00 am, January 31st, 2020 - 114 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 30th, 2020 - 23 comments
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Date published: 8:26 am, January 30th, 2020 - 38 comments
Following the announcement by the Serious Fraud Office of charges relating to the donation of $100,000 to the National Party Simon Bridges claim of being exonerated appear to be optimistic.
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Date published: 7:00 am, January 30th, 2020 - 66 comments
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Date published: 5:43 pm, January 29th, 2020 - 7 comments
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Date published: 3:37 pm, January 29th, 2020 - 55 comments
The SFO has confirmed that it has charged four persons with offences relating to the receipt of donations by the National Party.
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Date published: 11:33 am, January 29th, 2020 - 96 comments
The details of the Government’s $12 billion infrastructure announcement have been released.
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Date published: 10:47 am, January 29th, 2020 - 21 comments
This news shows how strange International Relations has become. Donald Trump, currently on trial in the Senate for withholding approved funds from the Ukraine in an attempt to get the Ukranian authorities to dig up dirt on his possible opponent Joe Biden, and Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and […]
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Date published: 7:00 am, January 29th, 2020 - 35 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 28th, 2020 - 63 comments
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Date published: 3:36 pm, January 28th, 2020 - 19 comments
Plus we get to choose our government again.
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Date published: 11:55 am, January 28th, 2020 - 23 comments
Simon Bridges has wondered out loud if anti semitism stopped the Government from sending a senior representative to a Holocaust memorial in Israel.
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