Chris Hipkins – Values Matter

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Date published: 3:59 pm, March 24th, 2024 - 94 comments

Text of the speech delivered by Chris Hipkins delivered in Auckland today.

The GCSB revelations

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Date published: 10:37 am, March 24th, 2024 - 24 comments

RNZ has reported that a foreign agency collected signals intelligence out of the GCSB for years without ministers knowing. And the collection only stopped after the equipment broke down.

Open mike 24/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 24th, 2024 - 16 comments

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Open mike 23/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 23rd, 2024 - 81 comments

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Daily review 22/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 22nd, 2024 - 8 comments

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F*ck

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Date published: 6:10 am, March 22nd, 2024 - 89 comments

We can see NACTF’s current fuckery as being part of the same dynamic. The job cuts, mining and oil drilling, attacks on disabled people and beneficiaries, the threat to news media, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, the war on nature, all of these are contained within the climate/ecology crises, and arise out of the same condition

Open mike 22/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 22nd, 2024 - 92 comments

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Daily review 21/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 21st, 2024 - 11 comments

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Hoatu he tumanako ki a rātou

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Date published: 10:30 am, March 21st, 2024 - 20 comments

Grant Robertson has given his valedictory speech in Parliament.

Open mike 21/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 21st, 2024 - 146 comments

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Daily review 20/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 20th, 2024 - 35 comments

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This is what happens when you give landlords a big tax cut #1

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Date published: 3:34 pm, March 20th, 2024 - 57 comments

No funds to continue to give families of disabled people

Peters gets knocked down but may not get up again

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Date published: 8:32 am, March 20th, 2024 - 54 comments

Chumbawamba have threatened legal action against Winston Peters for NZ First’s use of their song “I get knocked down” and have described him as having divisive, small-minded, and bigoted policies.

Open mike 20/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 20th, 2024 - 28 comments

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Daily review 19/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 19th, 2024 - 15 comments

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Uber Drivers in Court of Appeal

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Date published: 2:24 pm, March 19th, 2024 - 3 comments

Uber Drivers are in the Court of Appeal today. Uber is appealing against Employment Court decision they they are employees with worker rights. Its a no-brainer, so they are and should have them.

Open mike 19/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 19th, 2024 - 72 comments

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Daily review 18/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 18th, 2024 - 3 comments

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Tell Auckland Council don’t privatise the Port

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Date published: 12:13 pm, March 18th, 2024 - 12 comments

The Maritime Union of New Zealand has set up an online petition urging Auckland Council not to privatise Auckland Port and also a very helpful web page allowing people to make submissions on Auckland Council’s draft long term plan, where the privatisation proposal is being considered.

Open mike 18/03/2024

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Date published: 7:13 am, March 18th, 2024 - 56 comments

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Open mike 17/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 17th, 2024 - 9 comments

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Amateur hour

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Date published: 10:24 am, March 16th, 2024 - 11 comments

Government members of the Transport and Infrastructure Committee have managed to vote to support a Labour amendment that would make electric vehicles more attractive but submit a report to Parliament that suggested that the amendment had been lost.

Open mike 16/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 16th, 2024 - 40 comments

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Daily review 15/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 15th, 2024 - 10 comments

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National’s Overseas Gambling Levy policy figures are not rock solid

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Date published: 11:01 am, March 15th, 2024 - 4 comments

The IRD has estimated that National’s proposed Overseas Gambling Levy Policy will bring in $500 million less than it promised during the election campaign.

Open mike 15/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 15th, 2024 - 45 comments

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Daily review 14/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 14th, 2024 - 9 comments

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Luxon on rents – another National economic idiot

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Date published: 2:06 pm, March 14th, 2024 - 30 comments

I was incredulous that this lummox Christopher Luxon had ever paid attention during even a basic economics course. Landlords aren’t going to pass any cost reductions on to tenants in rent values. They charge new tenants the rental rates that the market can bear. In the absence of significiant new housing or a reduction in population, that is directly related to what tenants can afford to pay

Open mike 14/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 14th, 2024 - 11 comments

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Daily review 13/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 13th, 2024 - 26 comments

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Rock Solid Financial Geniuses

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Date published: 2:55 pm, March 13th, 2024 - 45 comments

The right has this belief that they are economic geniuses. Occasionally this belief is shown to be faulty. Like this week when National’s costings for tax cuts to Landlords was $800 million more than previously estimated.

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