National sneakily reduces child poverty targets
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Date published: 9:12 am, July 26th, 2024 - 19 comments
It has emerged that National has sneakily reduced child poverty targets.
Open mike 26/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 26th, 2024 - 14 comments
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Daily review 25/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 25th, 2024 - 7 comments
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The Abuse in Care report and the Government’s boot camp proposal
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Date published: 10:53 am, July 25th, 2024 - 24 comments
The Royal Commission’s recently released report into abuse in care has highlighted how unsuccessful and how damaging boot camps can be at the time the Government is celebrating the opening of its latest attempted version of a boot camp.
Open mike 25/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 25th, 2024 - 40 comments
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Daily review 24/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 24th, 2024 - 6 comments
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Resisting US pressure for NZ to sacrifice itself to defend US hegemony against China
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Date published: 3:07 pm, July 24th, 2024 - 16 comments
Don Brash is now publicly standing together with Helen Clark to protest against the subservience of recent New Zealand governments to America’s anti-China policy.
Open mike 24/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 24th, 2024 - 24 comments
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Daily review 23/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 23rd, 2024 - 22 comments
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Mountain Tui: Can we talk about New Zealand’s health system?
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Date published: 11:25 am, July 23rd, 2024 - 96 comments
Christopher Luxon and Shane Reti took the extraordinary step of removing the Health NZ Board and replacing it with a Health Commissioner. Why did they do that and will it help the real issues facing our health system?
Open mike 23/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 23rd, 2024 - 18 comments
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Daily review 22/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 22nd, 2024 - 8 comments
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Biden goes, Kamala Harris for US president
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Date published: 9:26 am, July 22nd, 2024 - 80 comments
“My intention is to earn and win this nomination’
Open mike 22/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 22nd, 2024 - 110 comments
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Will he stay or will he go
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Date published: 10:22 am, July 21st, 2024 - 70 comments
I can’t remember American politics ever being this weird. Donald Trump is riding a wave of support and risks being returned to the White House as President. And Joe Biden is considering his options.
Open mike 21/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 21st, 2024 - 25 comments
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Open mike 20/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 20th, 2024 - 47 comments
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Daily review 19/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 19th, 2024 - 4 comments
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Open mike 19/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 19th, 2024 - 59 comments
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National’s carbon budget is a crock
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Date published: 7:26 pm, July 18th, 2024 - 16 comments
It is now clear why Simon Watts rushed out a three page brochure setting out what this Government’s response to climate change will be. It knew that the latest Climate Change Emissions Reduction Plan was coming out for consultation. And that it could not come up with a credible plan.
Daily review 18/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 18th, 2024 - 20 comments
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PSA wins an important case about collective agreements
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Date published: 4:17 pm, July 18th, 2024 - 3 comments
The PSA just won an important case in the Employment Relations Authority against the Ministry of Education about collective agreements. There are significiant downstream implications to planned layoffs, legal fights, and Nicola Willis’s already tax cut strained budget.
Mountain Tui: ‘Corruption First’ Strikes Again – Is the National, ACT, and New Zealand Government in tobacco’s pocket?
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Date published: 3:53 pm, July 18th, 2024 - 10 comments
A track record of deception and pro tobacco industry policies is becoming evident in the Coalition. Casey Costello is at it again, this time quietly halving excise tax for some tobacco products. This is the first time in NZ’s history to have reduced excise on tobacco. We should all ask ‘Why now?’
Minister Bishop’s Misguided Legislation
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Date published: 8:20 am, July 18th, 2024 - 32 comments
Chris Bishop’s plan to “flood the market” with housing development described as being “unaffordable, unworkable and unfair” is also “unsustainable” and even “unhinged”.
Tui: National Party’s Local Water Done Well – A more expensive 3 Waters with potential for privatisation
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Date published: 6:30 am, July 18th, 2024 - 4 comments
Simeon Brown is working on National’s New 3 Waters called “Local Water Done Well.” But is it just a more expensive version with a privatisation catch?
Open mike 18/07/2024
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Daily review 17/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 17th, 2024 - 10 comments
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A nation reinvented: 40 years on from its 1984 victory, the Fourth Labour Government still defines NZ
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Date published: 6:05 am, July 17th, 2024 - 9 comments
“After nine years of economic nationalism and social conservatism under National prime minister Robert Muldoon, David Lange’s new broom left no corner unswept. In the space of a few short years, fuelled by a high-octane blend of neoliberal theory and neoclassical state minimalism, it reinvented the nation.”
Open mike 17/07/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 17th, 2024 - 157 comments
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Daily review 16/07/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 16th, 2024 - 26 comments
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Mountain Tui: Crashing New Zealand’s health system is not the way to prosperity, Prime Minister
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Date published: 2:44 pm, July 16th, 2024 - 15 comments
The drumbeat of health warnings continues from hospitals, doctors and nurses. But is the Government prepared to listen?
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