Daily review 31/05/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 31st, 2019 - 5 comments
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Budget commentary
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Date published: 12:23 pm, May 31st, 2019 - 65 comments
Has New Zealand’s social media spent too much time on gocha politics and not enough on the substance of the wellbeing budget?
Open mike 31/05/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 31st, 2019 - 170 comments
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Daily review 30/05/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 30th, 2019 - 28 comments
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The Wellbeing budget
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Date published: 1:42 pm, May 30th, 2019 - 169 comments
So what is in the Wellbeing budget and what do you think about it?
The Treasury website hack that wasn’t
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Date published: 7:30 am, May 30th, 2019 - 168 comments
The police has confirmed that a poorly secured website partially searchable through Treasury’s website’s search function was the cause of the release of sensitive budget information.
Same old dirty National
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 30th, 2019 - 179 comments
National is still embedded in Dirty Politics.
Open mike 30/05/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 30th, 2019 - 116 comments
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Daily review 29/05/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 29th, 2019 - 57 comments
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Whale Oil – the book
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Date published: 11:45 am, May 29th, 2019 - 15 comments
Whale Oil by Margie Thomson is about the Blomfield vs Slater case. Lost by Cameron Slater because after 7 years of trying to delay it, he was unable to mount a credible defense before a judge. But there is a lot of detail behind that that is worrying in an internet age..
Who did the Treasury Hack?
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Date published: 8:22 am, May 29th, 2019 - 292 comments
New Zealand Treasury head Gabriel Makhlouf has said that Treasury’s website was attacked 2000 times in 48 hours.
Open mike 29/05/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 29th, 2019 - 60 comments
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Simon Bridges – criminal receiver
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Date published: 11:48 pm, May 28th, 2019 - 216 comments
You have to wonder about what kind of law Simon Bridges, a former criminal prosecutor, actually practiced. Because given the events of today – it seems questionable if he understands the legal basis of our criminal laws about computers. Do we really want someone so incompetent at his chosen profession before entering politics (or have a criminal receiver of stolen goods) to run this country?
Daily review 28/05/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 28th, 2019 - 65 comments
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The false left anti road narrative
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Date published: 8:24 am, May 28th, 2019 - 26 comments
Shane Te Pou has claimed that the Government is anti road and pro bike lane and light rail. But a look at the Government’s spending priorities suggests that roads still dominate.
Open mike 28/05/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 28th, 2019 - 188 comments
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Daily review 27/05/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 27th, 2019 - 76 comments
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Will National do a deal with the Coalition NZ Party?
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Date published: 4:11 pm, May 27th, 2019 - 36 comments
Simon Bridges has refused to rule out doing a deal with Destiny Church’s Coalition New Zealand Party.
Bridges’ dodgy crime statistics
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Date published: 9:19 am, May 27th, 2019 - 26 comments
Simon Bridges is trumpeting some figures he has received from the Government as evidence that crime rates are increasing. But there is a slight problem. Police figures show that the number of reported offences is decreasing.
Open mike 27/05/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 27th, 2019 - 262 comments
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Open mike 26/05/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 26th, 2019 - 238 comments
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How To Get There 26/5/19
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 26th, 2019 - 36 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.
Mayhem in the UK
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Date published: 11:56 am, May 25th, 2019 - 68 comments
Theresa May has announced that she is to stand down as UK Prime Minister.
EU elections
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Date published: 7:30 am, May 25th, 2019 - 20 comments
The results of the European parliament elections are due. It’s the first election they’ve had since the refugee crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump. There’s a reasonably high chance that the far right are going to increase their share of this Parliament.
Open mike 25/05/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 25th, 2019 - 287 comments
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Daily review 24/05/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 24th, 2019 - 9 comments
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Religion and the threshold
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Date published: 9:13 am, May 24th, 2019 - 59 comments
It has been pretty boring watching the coverage of religious conservatives trying to present a meaningful political presence for the next election. Haven’t the NZ Herald’s puff piece journalists ever read about the history of religious parties in this “no religion” state? They’re fractional parties incapable of getting to 5% without assistance, and they don’t grow the vote for the right.
Labour to relax fiscal responsibility rules
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Date published: 9:00 am, May 24th, 2019 - 72 comments
Grant Robertson has announced there will be a relaxing of the fiscal responsibility rules, although not until after the next election.
Open mike 24/05/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 24th, 2019 - 151 comments
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Daily review 23/05/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 23rd, 2019 - 70 comments
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Run Brian Run
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Date published: 7:30 am, May 23rd, 2019 - 103 comments
Brian Tamaki is set to announce the launch of a new political party today.
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