Open mike 30/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 30th, 2022 - 59 comments
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Daily review 29/11/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 29th, 2022 - 35 comments
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Three strikes law is not the answer
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Date published: 12:13 pm, November 29th, 2022 - 25 comments
National is proposing a return of the Three Strikes legislation, despite the Supreme Court ruling that the law went well beyond excessive punishment and would shock the conscience of properly informed New Zealanders, and was so disproportionately severe as to breach the Bill of Rights. And despite there being no evidence that it would actually work.
Open mike 29/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 29th, 2022 - 33 comments
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Daily review 28/11/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 28th, 2022 - 16 comments
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Newscorp and Victorian Liberals were just so out of touch. Just like National and Act here
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Date published: 2:17 pm, November 28th, 2022 - 12 comments
The Liberal/Nat victory that Newscorp had been promoting in the Victorian state elections simply didn’t materialise. For some reason pandering to the loud and noisy just isn’t what it used to be. Fortunately those who still rely on traditional media and who haven’t been immunised against the idiots on the net are a diminishing voting resource.
What Is Labour’s Purpose This Term?
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Date published: 7:57 am, November 28th, 2022 - 35 comments
It is time to set out succinctly and without recourse to abstract nouns exactly what this Labour government has intended, is doing, and how it seeks to alter the country.
Open mike 28/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 28th, 2022 - 28 comments
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Overblown rhetoric and Laura Norder
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Date published: 10:19 am, November 27th, 2022 - 69 comments
This week has seen some extreme rhetoric from various quarters about who to blame for a recent senseless killing. But news that the person arrested had recently been extradited from Australia has shown the rhetoric to be entirely misplaced.
Open mike 27/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 27th, 2022 - 205 comments
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Open mike 26/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 26th, 2022 - 210 comments
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Daily review 25/11/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 25th, 2022 - 6 comments
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Medical gender transition in New Zealand: How common is it really?
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Date published: 6:05 am, November 25th, 2022 - 42 comments
Laura López decided to explore and analyse the available evidence on medical transition in New Zealand.
Open mike 25/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 25th, 2022 - 93 comments
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Prime Minister Ardern and Premier Xi
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Date published: 8:40 pm, November 24th, 2022 - 6 comments
New Zealand has the most adroit and high profile international leader in a generation with Prime Minister Ardern, but she has weakened New Zealand against China.
Daily review 24/11/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 24th, 2022 - 13 comments
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Can New Zealand’s Tech Sector Ride Adjustment Out?
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Date published: 7:48 am, November 24th, 2022 - 20 comments
Remember when New Zealand farming was a sunset industry and tech would rise in its place?
Open mike 24/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 24th, 2022 - 117 comments
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Daily review 23/11/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 23rd, 2022 - 15 comments
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Open mike 23/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 23rd, 2022 - 91 comments
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Daily review 22/11/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 22nd, 2022 - Comments Off on Daily review 22/11/2022
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Things To Do By The Time You’re 80
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Date published: 9:35 am, November 22nd, 2022 - 10 comments
As Joe Biden celebrates his 80th birthday in office and Donald Trump announces he will stand for President again in 2024, here’s a list of what Biden has done in his last few years. He’s still low in the polls, but the delivery is very strong.
Open mike 22/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 22nd, 2022 - 82 comments
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Surviving the apocalypse of the Great Twit
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Date published: 12:34 am, November 22nd, 2022 - 15 comments
The Great Twit at Twitter has been cauterising off staff in excess. I suspect that the platform is going to go down the toilet for that (amongst other reasons). My concern here has been to preserve the embedded tweets in posts and comments on this site if the idiot engineer manages to destroy the platform through simple stupidity.
The politics of the voting age change
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Date published: 8:12 pm, November 21st, 2022 - 90 comments
The Supreme Court has just lobbed a grenade into New Zealand politics by ruling that denying 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote was not only discrimination on the basis of age but also had not been justified and was therefore a breach of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.
Diplomatic Values
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Date published: 5:39 pm, November 21st, 2022 - 4 comments
Trudeau got a 10-minute stand-up with Xi followed by a public shirt-fronting, Albanese a 32-minute sit-down, and Jacinda Ardern a 50-minute formal bilateral. In the carefully calibrated world of the diplomatic dance-card, that says something. New Zealand would be foolish not to take advantage of what is on offer from China.
Daily review 21/11/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 21st, 2022 - 23 comments
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National’s Boot Camps announcement is deeply cynical policy recycling
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Date published: 10:27 am, November 21st, 2022 - 28 comments
There should be a law against the cynical recycling of dog whistle policies that everyone knows will not work. Last week’s announcement by National of a boot camp policy is as good an example as you can imagine.
Open mike 21/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 21st, 2022 - 106 comments
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Can We Prepare for 2023?
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Date published: 7:48 am, November 20th, 2022 - 69 comments
2023 is going to hit New Zealanders hard. Since the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes New Zealand has been beset by a new major crisis about once every two years. 2022 was our year off and get ready we are in for a strange and hard recession.
Open mike 20/11/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 20th, 2022 - 127 comments
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