Hipkins rules out coalition with Peters
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Date published: 8:18 am, August 28th, 2023 - 27 comments
Yesterday was a good day for Labour. Leader Chris Hipkins started talking about what the party stood for and what its values are while also ruling out a coalition with NZ First.
Open mike 28/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 28th, 2023 - 44 comments
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Be afraid be very afraid – the next Government could be really strange
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Date published: 11:57 am, August 27th, 2023 - 55 comments
If there was a change of Government the next Government could potentially be full of fundamentalist Christians, anti vaxers and all sorts of people whose view of Aotearoa is not conventional or reality based.
Open mike 27/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 27th, 2023 - 36 comments
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Self-destructive stupidity, New Zealand style
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Date published: 5:51 am, August 27th, 2023 - 25 comments
Belief in capricious gods would explain the perplexing habit of governments with intelligent and informed people to embrace policies which are manifestly an example of self-destructive stupidity. Clever people doing stupid things.
Semour is more like Rimmer than Mandela
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Date published: 8:54 pm, August 26th, 2023 - 17 comments
David Seymour reached more absurd levels of idiocy this week with a suggestion that if he was alive Nelson Mandela would be an Act supporter.
National’s very bad week
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Date published: 9:51 am, August 26th, 2023 - 13 comments
National MP Tim Van Der Molen has been found to have been in contempt of Parliament for aggressive, hostile and threatening behaviour towards Labour MP Shannan Halbert during a select committee hearing.
Foreign Interference
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Date published: 8:59 am, August 26th, 2023 - 4 comments
New Zealand Parliamentarians are certainly facing foreign-funded political interference from China. It’s just not from the official Communist Party-led nation.
Open mike 26/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 26th, 2023 - 37 comments
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Daily review 25/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 25th, 2023 - 17 comments
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Eugenie Sage’s farewell
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Date published: 11:14 am, August 25th, 2023 - 7 comments
As always, if you want to understand green politics, listen to what the Green MPs say themselves. This speech is no exception.
Open mike 25/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 25th, 2023 - 31 comments
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Daily review 24/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 24th, 2023 - 36 comments
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Open mike 24/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 24th, 2023 - 70 comments
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Daily review 23/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 23rd, 2023 - 13 comments
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Fifteen Green MPs, or more
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Date published: 10:02 am, August 23rd, 2023 - 38 comments
The political courage of the Green Party is paying off.
Open mike 23/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 23rd, 2023 - 48 comments
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Daily review 22/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 22nd, 2023 - 22 comments
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Education policy and the compulsory teaching of subjects
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Date published: 10:55 am, August 22nd, 2023 - 26 comments
The brains trust of Labour’s leadership have recently released a policy providing for the compulsory teaching of financial literacy in schools. Tacking to the centre and seeking votes from the pro business part of the electorate is an interesting approach to campaigning. Time will tell if it is the correct approach.
This press release was brought to you on behalf of National’s sponsors
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Date published: 8:25 am, August 22nd, 2023 - 25 comments
It has been revealed that National issued a press release in support of litigation taken against the Government by a company without disclosing that the manager of the company had previously made significant donations to National.
Open mike 22/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 22nd, 2023 - 49 comments
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Daily review 21/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 21st, 2023 - 8 comments
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Open mike 21/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 21st, 2023 - 68 comments
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Later Stuart
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Date published: 11:29 am, August 20th, 2023 - 12 comments
Stuart Nash has given a valedictory speech which could have been delivered by a retiring National MP.
Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable
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Date published: 8:00 am, August 20th, 2023 - 22 comments
Dr Mike Joy on the ecological imperative of degrowth
Open mike 20/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 20th, 2023 - 70 comments
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Open mike 19/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 19th, 2023 - 58 comments
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Daily review 18/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 18th, 2023 - 6 comments
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David Seymour should be ashamed
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Date published: 8:48 am, August 18th, 2023 - 103 comments
David Seymour yesterday hit a new low in race baiting when he said that “in my fantasy we’d send a guy called Guy Fawkes in [to the ministry of Pacific Peoples] and it’d be all over”.
The other cost of living crisis
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Date published: 6:05 am, August 18th, 2023 - 7 comments
Our descendants will curse us
Open mike 18/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 18th, 2023 - 41 comments
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