Auckland’s new fuel tax
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Date published: 10:04 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 37 comments
The signs are that Aucklanders are going to support a regional fuel tax designed to alleviate congestion.
Labour ban letting fees
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Date published: 6:33 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 134 comments
A good start from Labour on rent reforms, but will their bigger plans be enough?
Open Mike 23/03/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 87 comments
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Daily Review 22/03/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 22nd, 2018 - 34 comments
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Coleman is quitting
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Date published: 12:16 pm, March 22nd, 2018 - 193 comments
Jonathan Coleman has announced his resignation from Parliament.
Naughty Nick’s Parliamentary Porkie
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Date published: 7:39 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 39 comments
Nick Smith has been caught out by Trevor Mallard telling a porkie in Parliament.
Activists bring Mataura River poo to the Environment Southland
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Date published: 6:28 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 26 comments
“Epic #ShowDontTell action”
Greenpeace isn’t a charity, it’s a necessity
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 51 comments
Greenpeace’s press release on the Charities Board decision not to grant the environmental organisation charity status.
Open Mike 22/03/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 134 comments
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Daily Review 21/03/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 21st, 2018 - 36 comments
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NRT on transitioning off fossil fuels
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Date published: 9:10 am, March 21st, 2018 - 68 comments
Two posts from No Right Turn.
“Fundamentally, climate change means it is us or the oil industry. We know whose side the Greens are on. But people are doubting Labour, and they only have themselves to blame for it.”
Also a post on banning fossil-fueled cars.
Facebook is in trouble
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Date published: 8:24 am, March 21st, 2018 - 80 comments
A whistleblower, Christopher Wyllie, has explained how Cambridge Analytica managed to secure the data of 50 million Americans and how it was used in the last US Presidential election.
Open Mike 21/03/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 21st, 2018 - 214 comments
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Daily Review 20/03/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 20th, 2018 - 37 comments
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Remember President Obama?
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Date published: 10:24 am, March 20th, 2018 - 79 comments
The world has changed dramatically since Barak Obama was President of the United States.
Ardern suggests that oil exploration may cease
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Date published: 8:39 am, March 20th, 2018 - 83 comments
The Government is reconsidering the future of New Zealand’s block offer process which releases exploration permits to the oil industry for exploratory drilling.
Open Mike 20/03/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 20th, 2018 - 154 comments
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Daily Review 19/03/2018
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Date published: 5:31 pm, March 19th, 2018 - 45 comments
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Democracy, Faux Democracy and Terror.
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Date published: 11:27 am, March 19th, 2018 - 37 comments
Facebook, Putin, poisoning and Ghouta have all given fairly extensive media coverage of late. Nothing much on Afrin. Afrin has just fallen to terrorists backed by Turkey.
Update: the photo used for this post is of the The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA), who are part of the International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces fighting in Syria.
Green Party statements on giving their parliamentary Questions to the Opposition
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Date published: 11:03 am, March 19th, 2018 - 49 comments
“As Greens, we’ve always stood for modernising our democracy, making MPs more accountable and giving the public better access to the levers of power.”
Greens give National their primary questions for oral answer
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Date published: 9:48 am, March 19th, 2018 - 268 comments
The Greens have offered National their Primary Questions for oral answer in Parliament without conditions.
The Incredible Silence of John Key V2.0
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Date published: 6:30 am, March 19th, 2018 - 41 comments
Update: Bridges finds his voice. And apologises.
Open Mike 19/03/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 19th, 2018 - 104 comments
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Sanctions. Weapons of War.
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Date published: 11:50 am, March 18th, 2018 - 53 comments
When elite’s tussle, shouldn’t we look after us and ours?
Du Plessis-Allan jumps the shark
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Date published: 9:59 am, March 18th, 2018 - 87 comments
Heather Du Plessis-Allan has suggested that there is a power struggle happening in the Labour Party. Without the benefit of things normally considered to be important elements of an argument, those things being facts.
Tell the Health Committee: Make our cannabis law fair for those in pain
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 18th, 2018 - 10 comments
“The Health Select Committee is about to consider the government’s changes to medicinal cannabis law. This is your chance to tell politicians they have not gone far enough.”
The Greens have a handy online submission form that you can send as is or add your own thoughts. Submissions close on Wednesday.
Open Mike 18/03/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 18th, 2018 - 254 comments
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Doofus of the week – March 17, 2018
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Date published: 12:48 pm, March 17th, 2018 - 37 comments
is awarded this week to Lisa Prager who is convinced that construction of cycleways in Auckland is part of a global conspiracy to take away our rights and whose sledge hammering technique is not optimal.
Open Mike 17/03/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 17th, 2018 - 127 comments
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Russian to Judgment
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Date published: 5:55 pm, March 16th, 2018 - 517 comments
The possible poisoning of Sergei Skripal and the consequent hysteria have all the signs of another false flag operation, as we saw before the second American invasion of Iraq. The chain of circumstantial evidence has more holes in it than a swiss cheese, and while attempted murder (if that is what it is) is a criminal act Winston Peters and Jeremy Corbyn are sane voices calling for evidence before any attribution still less action.
Daily Review 16/03/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 16th, 2018 - 13 comments
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