Open mike 24/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 24th, 2024 - 34 comments

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Daily review 23/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 23rd, 2024 - 16 comments

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Open mike 23/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 23rd, 2024 - 7 comments

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Daily review 22/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 22nd, 2024 - 1 comment

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Open mike 22/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 22nd, 2024 - 50 comments

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Joining US military alliance not in our national interest

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Date published: 1:56 am, April 22nd, 2024 - 23 comments

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark – the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory – gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held in Parliament’s old Legislative Chambers on April 18.

The list

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Date published: 10:14 am, April 21st, 2024 - 11 comments

Making a major infrastructure deal happen takes years of planning, exceptionally qualified people on all sides, and in New Zealand it takes about ten years of your life. Until now.

The Liz Truss of the South Seas

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Date published: 9:43 am, April 21st, 2024 - 35 comments

Liz Truss’s short reign as UK Prime Minister foundered after her budget requiring borrowing to fund tax cuts was released. The budget tanked the UK economy and caused Truss’s resignation. This week amongst announcements of massive cuts it has emerged that the Government is also planning borrowing for tax cuts.

Open mike 21/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 21st, 2024 - 27 comments

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Open mike 20/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 20th, 2024 - 95 comments

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Daily review 19/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 19th, 2024 - 4 comments

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How to slow down the Fast Track Bill

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Date published: 8:09 am, April 19th, 2024 - 19 comments

UPDATE: government forced to release the list of companies it wrote to about the Fast-Track application process.

Yesterday was the last day for submissions on the nature and society destroying Fast Track bill.

Open mike 19/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 19th, 2024 - 19 comments

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Daily review 18/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 18th, 2024 - 5 comments

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Open mike 18/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 18th, 2024 - 51 comments

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Daily review 17/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 17th, 2024 - 20 comments

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Towards Banana Republic Status

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Date published: 10:25 am, April 17th, 2024 - 27 comments

There is a bill before Parliament right now that has the potential of blowing a rather big hole in our reputation as an open and transparent democracy.

At least Chris Bishop sleeps in a well made bed

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Date published: 8:26 am, April 17th, 2024 - 85 comments

Having a decent home is a human right

Open mike 17/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 17th, 2024 - 30 comments

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Daily review 16/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 16th, 2024 - 3 comments

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Forget this Trump trial

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Date published: 1:56 pm, April 16th, 2024 - 14 comments

In the Trump felony trial now underway, there’s a yawning gap between media attention paid to this and the actual scale of the crime and its potential punishment. Trump is not indicted for trial for electoral fraud. He’s not on trial for paying a porn star for services. He’s not on trial for adultery. He’s […]

Stuff rescues Newshub

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Date published: 11:24 am, April 16th, 2024 - 23 comments

Hub.Stuff

Open mike 16/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 16th, 2024 - 94 comments

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Daily review 15/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 15th, 2024 - 5 comments

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The Cass Review reader: investigations into the treatment of gender dysphoric children and youth

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Date published: 9:56 am, April 15th, 2024 - 144 comments

The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.

It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.

Open mike 15/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 15th, 2024 - 50 comments

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Iran launches missiles at Israel in retaliation for consulate strike in Damascus

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Date published: 4:18 am, April 15th, 2024 - 15 comments

Israel should not have bombed the Iranian consulate buildings in Damascus. Iran should not have fired 300 missiles at Israel in response. Neither of these actions should have happened, but they now have. The world now watches to see if there is further retaliation and escalation of violence, or if calmer and wiser heads prevail.

On Newshub and economic voice

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Date published: 1:21 pm, April 14th, 2024 - 16 comments

Nigel Haworth writes on some of the historic implications and strategy of the worker plans for companies in the context of the worker initiated initiatives for allowing Newshub to survive.

The first Ministerial scalp?

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Date published: 10:34 am, April 14th, 2024 - 27 comments

Already we have what looks like an odds on favourite for the first Ministerial scalp.

Open mike 14/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 14th, 2024 - 90 comments

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Open mike 13/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 13th, 2024 - 26 comments

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