The Hospital Dunedin needs?
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Date published: 10:19 am, September 28th, 2024 - 69 comments
The question has to be asked, can we trust National to do anything that it has promised?
Open mike 28/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 28th, 2024 - 98 comments
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Daily review 27/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 27th, 2024 - 14 comments
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Open mike 27/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 27th, 2024 - 20 comments
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Daily review 26/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 26th, 2024 - 18 comments
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Bye, Bye Health!
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Date published: 12:59 pm, September 26th, 2024 - 45 comments
NZ has already spent $1bn on thin air (Kiwirail ferries), $70bn on roads, and $35bn on tax cuts so no to your hospitals and investments!
Ferry ferry quite contrary
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Date published: 8:22 am, September 26th, 2024 - 24 comments
There appears to be an impasse in the Coalition’s ranks with Act and National not wanting rail enabled replacement ferries but Winston Peters demanding that they be rail enabled.
Open mike 26/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 26th, 2024 - 29 comments
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Luxon is deconstructing the plane while flying it
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Date published: 5:57 pm, September 25th, 2024 - 8 comments
What I’m saying to you is that Chris Luxon has never crashed a country before.
Daily review 25/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 25th, 2024 - 10 comments
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Open mike 25/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 25th, 2024 - 43 comments
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Daily review 24/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 24th, 2024 - 13 comments
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Open mike 24/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 24th, 2024 - 84 comments
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Daily review 23/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 23rd, 2024 - 26 comments
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The New Zealand left are in the worst place in a century
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Date published: 11:20 am, September 23rd, 2024 - 68 comments
New Zealand has the most right wing government it’s had since Governor George Grey determined to eradicate all Maori power by systematic war and then systematic legislative theft in 1863. But the left shows no sign of unifying.
Open mike 23/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 23rd, 2024 - 16 comments
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On Labour’s Enduring and Unrelenting Historic Role
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Date published: 1:17 pm, September 22nd, 2024 - 20 comments
Nigel Haworth argues that the 2012 reforms of the Labour Party created a perverse effect. Not to engender stronger member voice, but to empower a managerial model akin to a Piketty’s Brahmin caste. It weakened the Party’s ability to act strongly at arms length of Caucus and Parliamentary Leader.
Open mike 22/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 22nd, 2024 - 57 comments
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Open mike 21/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 21st, 2024 - 17 comments
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Daily review 20/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 20th, 2024 - 8 comments
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Luxon loses his cool when asked about doctoring gang membership statistics
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Date published: 8:26 am, September 20th, 2024 - 47 comments
On the same day that National had Parliament pass onerous anti gang laws to address allegedly dramatically increasing numbers of gang members Christopher Luxon lost his cool when it was pointed out to him that the Government is purging the list to reduce the numbers.
Open mike 20/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 20th, 2024 - 40 comments
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Daily review 19/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 19th, 2024 - 7 comments
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Lester Levy, $320,000 Part time Health NZ Commissioner: “It’s not for me to fix everything”
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Date published: 2:12 pm, September 19th, 2024 - 16 comments
Lester Levy claims he is working so hard it’s probably not good for his health. Meanwhile, he failed to bring financials to the Health Select Committee while explaining he was doing well on cutting costs – and would continue to do so.
New Zealand treats the wealthy better than comparable nations
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Date published: 10:51 am, September 19th, 2024 - 26 comments
A recently Tax Justice Aotearoa study suggests that the country could impse a capital gains tax or wealth tax and the wealthy would still be better off than they would be in similar countries.
Open mike 19/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 19th, 2024 - 61 comments
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Daily review 18/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 18th, 2024 - 8 comments
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The Civilian is back.
Unemployment is definitely up.
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Date published: 2:51 pm, September 18th, 2024 - 7 comments
The Civilian, a site that publishes the satire news is back. Hopefully for readers this will last. It only appears to have been running for a few days. Clearly the governments ongoing unemployment program is working well for the art of satire.
National’s gang patch ban may hinder police investigations
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Date published: 10:55 am, September 18th, 2024 - 18 comments
The police’s recent successful operation against the Comanchero gang could concievably have been compromised by National’s proposed gang patch ban.
Open mike 18/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 18th, 2024 - 66 comments
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Daily review 17/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 17th, 2024 - 18 comments
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