Greens release rental stories collection

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Date published: 11:01 am, June 30th, 2023 - 127 comments

“All four residents came down sick within the week and stayed sick until we moved out. Three of us could not move out until the end of the lease, which took two months. Two of the residents had throat swabs done, both coming back with lung infections of bacteria primarily found in the intestines.”

Open mike 30/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 30th, 2023 - 111 comments

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Daily review 29/06/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 29th, 2023 - 13 comments

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Open mike 29/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 29th, 2023 - 68 comments

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Daily review 28/06/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 28th, 2023 - 40 comments

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Proper Race Politics In Your Face

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Date published: 9:32 am, June 28th, 2023 - 12 comments

Who has the better take on the Treaty of Waitangi? Julian Batchelor or Sir Apirana Ngata?

Sepuloni 1 Luxon 0

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Date published: 8:49 am, June 28th, 2023 - 12 comments

Yesterday in Parliament National attempted to embarrass Carmel Sepuloni in question time by asking her detailed economic questions. But the attempt backfired.

Climate: where we are heading

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Date published: 6:05 am, June 28th, 2023 - 35 comments

The United Nations University has released a sixteen minute film featuring world leading climate scientist and carbon budget specialist Professor Kevin Anderson talking about the utter catastrophe we are heading for if we don’t take radical action on climate now.

Open mike 28/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 28th, 2023 - 31 comments

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Daily review 27/06/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 27th, 2023 - 91 comments

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Hipkins in China

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Date published: 8:39 am, June 27th, 2023 - 38 comments

A weakened Russia is a Russia made more dependent on China. New Zealand is also deeply reliant on China.

Open mike 27/06/2023

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Daily review 26/06/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 26th, 2023 - 12 comments

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NACT’s Law & Order Policies: Dog Whistle Or Proto-Fascism?

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Date published: 9:10 am, June 26th, 2023 - 22 comments

NACT’s Law & Order policies are a dog whistle and signs of proto-fascism.

National releases uncosted corrections policy

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Date published: 8:56 am, June 26th, 2023 - 12 comments

National has released a hotch potch policy of changes to Criminal Justice that is uncosted and seeks to achieve that which is already in force or proposed.

Open mike 26/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 26th, 2023 - 90 comments

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Why selling Auckland Port Operations is a particularly silly thing to do

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Date published: 4:30 pm, June 25th, 2023 - 4 comments

It is a given that the right in power want to sell public assets off and the left want to retain those assets. And it appears that the right’s eyes are on Ports of Auckland.

Why Public Ownership Is Great

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Date published: 4:20 pm, June 25th, 2023 - 10 comments

In the absence of any political party stating clearly that public ownership of major infrastructure is a very good idea, here’s 10 good things public ownership of infrastructure does that private ownership doesn’t.

Open mike 25/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 25th, 2023 - 169 comments

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Open mike 24/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 24th, 2023 - 144 comments

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Daily review 23/06/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 23rd, 2023 - 189 comments

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China’s gift horse

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Date published: 1:29 pm, June 23rd, 2023 - 9 comments

It is good to see that there is a substantial business delegation accompanying Chris Hipkins to China, and that it is aimed at seeking to diversify into a wider range of issues. As China’s ambassador Wang Xiaolong noted in the Herald yesterday, there are significant opportunities for New Zealand on offer.

Brown wants to privatise Ports of Auckland Operations

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Date published: 10:59 am, June 23rd, 2023 - 22 comments

Fresh from his success at selling off part of Auckland Council’s Airport shares Wayne Brown has proposed another privatisation, that of Ports of Auckland Operations by way of the granting of an operating lease for the Port’s activities.

Open mike 23/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2023 - 53 comments

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Daily review 22/06/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 22nd, 2023 - 20 comments

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Open mike 22/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 22nd, 2023 - 129 comments

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Daily review 21/06/2023

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 21st, 2023 - 20 comments

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You can never, ever, have too many Teslas

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Date published: 9:29 am, June 21st, 2023 - 55 comments

Fresh from news that Christopher Luxon ordered a State supplied Tesla when his household already owns one comes news that the household Tesla was upgraded, and that the clean car discount was obtained.

Winning ugly

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Date published: 7:19 am, June 21st, 2023 - 146 comments

luxon sheep

Another week and another example of National using dog whistle racism to stir up hatred and try and gain political advantage. This time it is to attack the notion that our health system should be seeking to look after those most in need.

Don’t Stop

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Date published: 6:16 am, June 21st, 2023 - 20 comments

“Meanwhile, oil companies are enjoying record profits”

Open mike 21/06/2023

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2023 - 66 comments

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