Open mike 02/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 2nd, 2024 - 30 comments

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Guest Post – I was wrong about rainbows

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Date published: 11:41 am, April 1st, 2024 - 13 comments

Brian Tamaki, recent victim of self/God?-inflicted burns. Don't be like Brian.

Guest post by Brian Tamaki where he shares his change of thinking about rainbows.

A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?

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Date published: 10:13 am, April 1st, 2024 - 26 comments

Veteran climate activist Cindy Baxter writes about the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on her home town and the challenges of resiliency planning going forward.

Open mike 01/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 1st, 2024 - 186 comments

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Open mike 31/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 31st, 2024 - 10 comments

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Open mike 30/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 30th, 2024 - 32 comments

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The Culture War Coalition

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Date published: 10:57 am, March 29th, 2024 - 53 comments

We have just had yet another week of the Government manufacturing culture wars and picking fights while ignoring the big issues. Like dealing with climate change, child poverty and homelessness.

Open mike 29/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 29th, 2024 - 48 comments

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Daily review 28/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 28th, 2024 - 16 comments

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Open mike 28/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 28th, 2024 - 95 comments

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Daily review 27/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 27th, 2024 - 3 comments

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NZ Initiative – tax cuts are silly at present. I have to agree.

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Date published: 11:49 am, March 27th, 2024 - 41 comments

I don’t agree with people from New Zealand Initiative often. Mostly I just growl. But Oliver Hartwich who is the Initiative’s Executive Director wrote a article in The Australian “Christopher Luxon’s challenge for NZ economy: fiscal discipline or tax cuts”. Hard to find anyone aware of the current recession who could disagree outside of a small political minority in the National caucus.

CANA: Shane Jones, Chris Bishop, and Simeon Brown want the power to authorise mines and motorways on behalf of their mates with the click of a pen. Here’s how to fight back.

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Date published: 6:05 am, March 27th, 2024 - 29 comments

In reality, the Government knows that New Zealanders will be even more outraged if they see the list of environment- and climate-wrecking projects that these Ministers and their donor & industry mates have cooked up.

Open mike 27/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 27th, 2024 - 44 comments

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Daily review 26/03/2024

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

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Open mike 26/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 26th, 2024 - 69 comments

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Daily review 25/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 25th, 2024 - 58 comments

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Open mike 25/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 25th, 2024 - 15 comments

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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.