Daily review 22/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 22nd, 2023 - 21 comments

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Is the Coalition Government Back Jabbing Māori?

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Date published: 4:10 pm, December 22nd, 2023 - 19 comments

The coalition government robs Pita to pay Paora to appease its voter base.

Open mike 22/12/2023

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Date published: 8:13 am, December 22nd, 2023 - 107 comments

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Daily review 21/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 21st, 2023 - 8 comments

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The New Zealand’s New Neo-Authoritarian Coalition Government

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Date published: 2:36 pm, December 21st, 2023 - 20 comments

The coalition government has hijacked the democratic process for its own partisan and nefarious agenda.

Open mike 21/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 21st, 2023 - 69 comments

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Daily review 20/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 20th, 2023 - 23 comments

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The Mini Budget Today

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Date published: 11:01 am, December 20th, 2023 - 70 comments

Don’t let anyone be fooled this Christmas dinner by what National is setting out today. 

Be very afraid for Kainga Ora

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Date published: 9:08 am, December 20th, 2023 - 19 comments

So National’s shock and awe campaign is under way. And the first target is Kainga Ora.

Open mike 20/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 20th, 2023 - 32 comments

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Daily review 19/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 19th, 2023 - 5 comments

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Why Labour must change course

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Date published: 8:31 am, December 19th, 2023 - 49 comments

“A Left government with any claim to progressive credentials will focus on three policy areas – first, high-quality, high value production; second, taxation measures to reduce significantly wealth differences; third, strengthened democracy, including industrial democracy beyond collective bargaining. These three are indispensable. A Left politics, which does not build on these three, will founder.”

Open mike 19/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 19th, 2023 - 51 comments

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National’s complete indifference to climate change

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Date published: 9:05 pm, December 18th, 2023 - 18 comments

This is the only possible explanation.  As well as celebrating all things car National has a pathological hatred of cycleways and walkways and public transport.

Daily review 18/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 18th, 2023 - 21 comments

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90 day trials – Don’t come Monday

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Date published: 8:36 am, December 18th, 2023 - 65 comments

This coming week, under urgency and leading into Xmas, the Coalition government will expand 90-day trials to all workers, in yet another payback to National/ACT/NZ First’s (NAF) business backers.

Open mike 18/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 18th, 2023 - 52 comments

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Wanted: Dead or Alive? The Treaty of Waitangi

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Date published: 1:55 pm, December 17th, 2023 - 28 comments

Is the Treaty a contemporary guide or an archaic historical document?

Why was Judith Collins appointed as a KC?

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Date published: 9:46 am, December 17th, 2023 - 35 comments

Judith Collins has been appointed a Kings Counsel even before she has had time to show her performance as Attorney General and even though previous highly respected lawyers such as David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer and Margaret Wilson were not appointed while serving as Attorneys General.

Open mike 17/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 17th, 2023 - 31 comments

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Open mike 16/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 16th, 2023 - 47 comments

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Daily review 15/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 15th, 2023 - 26 comments

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The week of going backward

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Date published: 11:06 am, December 15th, 2023 - 30 comments

National has this week chosen to smash through under urgency legislation that will increase unemployment and interest rates, reduce workers wages and increase the country’s emissions of greenhouse gasses.

Open mike 15/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 15th, 2023 - 47 comments

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Political comeback – Getting the sequencing right

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Date published: 9:37 pm, December 14th, 2023 - 40 comments

A notably different approach to sequencing political comeback was on show at the VUW post-election seminar last week. Luxon put rebuilding the party first, Hipkins put it last. On policy Luxon was bottom-up and early, Hipkins was top-down and late.

Daily review 14/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 14th, 2023 - 21 comments

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Open mike 14/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 14th, 2023 - 134 comments

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Daily review 13/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 13th, 2023 - 47 comments

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Shame Jones

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Date published: 11:33 am, December 13th, 2023 - 24 comments

In one speech Shane Jones has talked about the “hysteria surrounding climate change”, promised to disregard targets agreed to under the Paris Agreement, ordered the halting of work at the Ministry for the Environment, promised the lifting the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration at pace, and said that Mining on Department of Conservation (DoC) and Stewardship land is also in the pipeline.

Open mike 13/12/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 13th, 2023 - 61 comments

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Daily review 12/12/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 12th, 2023 - 13 comments

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