Should you be more worried about co-governance or the top 1%?
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Date published: 1:13 pm, October 3rd, 2023 - 52 comments
To the those voting ACT or NZF or National this year because you are worried about co-governance. I have a secret for you. You have been co-governed by the richest 1% for decades.
Open mike 03/10/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 3rd, 2023 - 103 comments
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Daily review 02/10/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 2nd, 2023 - 27 comments
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Why won’t Winston Peters answer straight forward questions about NZ First policy?
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Date published: 10:49 am, October 2nd, 2023 - 116 comments
Jack Tame vs Winston Peters.
Open mike 02/10/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 2nd, 2023 - 102 comments
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Skyfall comes to Wellington
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Date published: 7:30 am, October 1st, 2023 - 5 comments
Skyfall was 10 years ago but it has a message for all public servants local or central as you choose your vote.
Open mike 01/10/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 1st, 2023 - 41 comments
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What really matters this election – poverty
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Date published: 11:50 am, September 30th, 2023 - 38 comments
National has shown its real priorities with proposals to cut benefits that will pay for increased tax concessions for landlords and increasing prison resources in anticipation of the crime wave the increased poverty will cause.
Open mike 30/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 30th, 2023 - 33 comments
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Daily review 29/09/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 29th, 2023 - 14 comments
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Hipkins goes on the offensive
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Date published: 8:46 am, September 29th, 2023 - 39 comments
Chris Hipkins has upped the ante in the election campaign by directly calling out the right’s use of dog whistle racism.
Triple the vote!
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Date published: 6:05 am, September 29th, 2023 - 19 comments
“If you triple your vote, we triple our power to protect people and planet”
Open mike 29/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 29th, 2023 - 108 comments
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Daily review 28/09/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 28th, 2023 - 23 comments
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Open mike 28/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 28th, 2023 - 62 comments
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Tax or quality public services – which is more important to NZ voters?
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Date published: 10:31 pm, September 27th, 2023 - 16 comments
Earlier this year Andrew Marr wrote in the New Statesmen, that Britain’s problem was that it wanted Scandinavian levels of Public Services and North American levels of taxation. His view was that Britain was overdue for an honest debate about tax and public spending. In New Zealand, there is a similar challenge.
Daily review 27/09/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 27th, 2023 - 68 comments
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Winston adds to National’s tax cut credibility problem
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Date published: 2:18 pm, September 27th, 2023 - 26 comments
National’s failure to adequately explain how its new revenue policies will work has seen its support sag. And its problem is that if it depends on Winston Peters for confidence and supply he has expressed major reservations about these policies and there is no guarantee he will support them. And a significant majority of New Zealanders understand this.
A Green surge and fighting for the election
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Date published: 6:05 am, September 27th, 2023 - 31 comments
Don’t share defeatist bollocks. It tells swing, undecided and habitual non-voters to not bother voting left. Instead, there are still actions that will make a difference over the next three weeks.
Open mike 27/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 27th, 2023 - 85 comments
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Daily review 26/09/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 26th, 2023 - 15 comments
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Even Mike Hosking thinks that a National-Act-NZ First coalition would be an absolute disaster
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Date published: 10:22 am, September 26th, 2023 - 63 comments
As the polls show a further slump in support for the right and as Winston Peters emerges as a kingmaker there is growing concern about the possibility of a real coalition of chaos being elected.
Open mike 26/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 26th, 2023 - 99 comments
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Daily review 25/09/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 25th, 2023 - 35 comments
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Greens: Climate future of communities on the line this election
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Date published: 9:35 am, September 25th, 2023 - 2 comments
“The extreme weather events that Aotearoa has seen this year have been supercharged by climate change. How we go about building resilient and affordable communities that meet everyone’s needs despite the challenges of climate change will be a critical question for the next government. For the Greens, the answer is clear: we must slash our emissions, and take action to protect our homes and communities from extreme weather”
National’s back of the envelope $715 million tax calculation
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Date published: 8:58 am, September 25th, 2023 - 39 comments
Nicola Willis has essentially confirmed that the design of National’s foreign purchase of land tax was and remains sufficient to be done on the back of an envelope.
Open mike 25/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 25th, 2023 - 77 comments
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National really, really needs New Zealand to be in a recession
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Date published: 7:59 am, September 24th, 2023 - 22 comments
After Stats NZ shot down National’s claim that the country is in recession National pirouetted by claiming that New Zealand WILL be in recession in the near future and that the Reserve Bank has predicted this. But according to the Reserve Bank this may not be true …
Open mike 24/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 24th, 2023 - 60 comments
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Open mike 23/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 23rd, 2023 - 64 comments
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Daily review 22/09/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 22nd, 2023 - 7 comments
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