Daily review 24/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 24th, 2024 - 13 comments
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Auckland Entrust Election – today is the last day
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Date published: 11:53 am, October 24th, 2024 - 5 comments
If you’re in Auckland and are the first named electricity holder for a household power account, then you should be able to vote in the Entrust election. But you will have to post TODAY. The damn election got around 9% turnout last time, so putting in a vote is actually significiant. I posted mine last week for More for You, Better for Auckland.
Tobacco product investigation is requested and warranted
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Date published: 7:56 am, October 24th, 2024 - 17 comments
Welcome news from yesterday was the request to the Auditor General under the Public Audit Act on the arbitrary and unsupported by evidence decisions on tobacco products by the Customs Minister Casey Costello. As the request stated, Labour’s health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall had reached the limits of the information that she could seek using the Official Information Act.
10,000 across the country meet to push back against government policies (PHOTOS)
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Date published: 7:00 am, October 24th, 2024 - 9 comments
Here are photos of the union protest around the country yesterday.
Open mike 24/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 24th, 2024 - 20 comments
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Daily review 23/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 23rd, 2024 - 19 comments
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Notice: Protest Locations Today
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Date published: 10:44 am, October 23rd, 2024 - 14 comments
Today is Protest Day – Stand Together. Here are the locations around the country and why you might feel moved to join.
Open mike 23/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 23rd, 2024 - 48 comments
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Daily review 22/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 22nd, 2024 - 7 comments
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Government succumbs to Sensible Sentencing Trust pressure and makes Three Strikes Bill worse
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Date published: 10:45 am, October 22nd, 2024 - 10 comments
The Goverment has bowed to pressure from the Sensible Sentencing Trust and made the Three Strikes Bill even more unworkable.
Open mike 22/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 22nd, 2024 - 48 comments
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Luxon Tells The World Andrew Bayly Lied
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Date published: 10:24 pm, October 21st, 2024 - 48 comments
Today, Christopher Luxon said Andrew Bayly got it “horribly” wrong when telling a Kiwi worker to “f*ck” off and repeatedly call him a loser. But Bayly had denied it just last week.
Daily review 21/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 21st, 2024 - 1 comment
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Doomed?
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Date published: 7:03 am, October 21st, 2024 - 62 comments
“We’re doomed” was Private Frazer’s inevitable response to any crisis in “Dad’s Army”. One might stray into such despondency when considering the external context in which New Zealand finds itself, then considering what we are doing as a nation to respond. Nigel Haworth looks at where we are at.
Open mike 21/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 21st, 2024 - 31 comments
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Will This Be a One-Term Government?
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Date published: 12:21 pm, October 20th, 2024 - 24 comments
Elliot Crossan at System Change Aotearoa reviews the past year. Despite the tepid public support for this government’s problematic actions, he warns that ‘The Right Is United By Power — Don’t Underestimate Them’
Who is the loser?
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Date published: 9:25 am, October 20th, 2024 - 22 comments
National Minister Andrew Bayley has apologised for his conduct after a complaint that he repeatedly called a worker “a loser” and swore at him while on a business visit.
Open mike 20/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 20th, 2024 - 27 comments
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Open mike 19/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 19th, 2024 - 39 comments
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Chris Trotter’s Arguments for the Treaty Principles Bill Are Flawed
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Date published: 6:08 pm, October 18th, 2024 - 49 comments
Chris Trotter argues that those who oppose the Treaty Principles Bill aren’t fair. But are his arguments accurate or is his repetition of David Seymour’s human rights narrative a potential red herring?
Daily review 18/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 18th, 2024 - 11 comments
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Tana is waka jumped
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Date published: 8:53 am, October 18th, 2024 - 54 comments
The Green Party has chosen to write to the Speaker seeking that Darlene Tana’s position as a MP is terminated.
Open mike 18/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 18th, 2024 - 22 comments
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Daily review 17/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 17th, 2024 - 9 comments
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Ferry crisis what ferry crisis?
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Date published: 12:35 pm, October 17th, 2024 - 21 comments
The Cook Strait Ferry issue is getting to a critical point. An announcement was expected in July. But it appears that NZ First is digging its heels in about the need tor the replacement ferries being rail capable.
Open mike 17/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 17th, 2024 - 36 comments
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77% of NZ’s business leaders say a CGT or equivalent is needed as chorus for CGT increases
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Date published: 7:06 pm, October 16th, 2024 - 90 comments
ANZ, ASB and Simplicity are the latest to join the 77% of business leaders who now say CGT is essential for NZ. CGT goes wholly to the government so why is Luxon so against it?
Daily review 16/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 16th, 2024 - 4 comments
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Open mike 16/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 16th, 2024 - 98 comments
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Daily review 15/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 15th, 2024 - 17 comments
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Hauraki Gulf Marine reserves are being Jonesied*
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Date published: 9:21 am, October 15th, 2024 - 13 comments
* the process whereby a Marine Reserve is opened up to commercial fishing.
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