Open mike 15/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 15th, 2022 - 22 comments

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Daily review 14/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 14th, 2022 - 8 comments

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The right is weirdly gleeful about the end of the mask mandate

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Date published: 6:59 am, September 14th, 2022 - 40 comments

National MPs and their supporters have been celebrating the removal of the mandate with weird levels of glee.

Open mike 14/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 14th, 2022 - 40 comments

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Daily review 13/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 13th, 2022 - 11 comments

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Who pays the cost of an extra day off?

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Date published: 12:45 pm, September 13th, 2022 - 50 comments

The Government has announced that we will all have a day off to commemorate the life of Queen Elisabeth.  Act has come out against it on the basis that we are in a cost of living crisis, even though the adverse effect on workers and the poor is essentially nil and even though there is analysis that suggests that holidays are good for the economy.

Open mike 13/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 13th, 2022 - 59 comments

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Daily review 12/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 12th, 2022 - 27 comments

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Covid review due today

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Date published: 8:37 am, September 12th, 2022 - 45 comments

The Government is to make an announcement today on the future of covid mandates and the traffic light system.  With infection numbers and hospitalisation and death rates plummeting it appears likely that these measures will not be renewed.

Open mike 12/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 12th, 2022 - 65 comments

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Freedom is Not Guaranteed: Sometimes You Must Fight

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Date published: 8:00 am, September 11th, 2022 - 177 comments

If we fail to support Ukraine’s struggle we all lose far more than self rule for 44 million people.

Open mike 11/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 11th, 2022 - 74 comments

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Open mike 10/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 10th, 2022 - 93 comments

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Daily review 09/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 9th, 2022 - 14 comments

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Open mike 09/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 9th, 2022 - 150 comments

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Daily review 08/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 8th, 2022 - 33 comments

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Re-Nationalise Electricity Generators Now

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Date published: 7:00 am, September 8th, 2022 - 60 comments

This COVID era is the decade in which the state is back, bigger and faster than ever before. But the one area this government won’t let the state expand again is the one area in which New Zealand is the most vulnerable: electricity generation. It needs to change.

Open mike 08/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 8th, 2022 - 73 comments

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Daily review 07/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 7th, 2022 - 10 comments

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Transition at the Limits of What People Can Cope With

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Date published: 7:00 am, September 7th, 2022 - 39 comments

Many European governments now face a perfect storm of threatened energy security, rising inflation, war-propelled refugee crisis, and climate objectives. New Zealand be warned.

Open mike 07/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 7th, 2022 - 105 comments

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Daily review 06/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 6th, 2022 - 11 comments

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Newshub’s incredibly bad gang take

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Date published: 8:40 am, September 6th, 2022 - 55 comments

Yesterday the Government announced a slate of new powers designed to address gang violence.  Newshub chose that day to imply that Labour was soft on gangs because a gang member said on social media not to vote for National.

Open mike 06/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 6th, 2022 - 56 comments

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Daily review 05/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 5th, 2022 - 5 comments

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Voting for our lives: protecting the environment from the late capitalism death cult

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Date published: 9:59 am, September 5th, 2022 - 86 comments

Environment Southland gives the ok for intensive farming on the edge of Fiordland National Park. Everyday there’s more news of disastrous decisions being made by people in power. The local body elections in the next month give us one easy and straightforward way to change that.

Open mike 05/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 5th, 2022 - 54 comments

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‘Training’ for an early grave

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Date published: 7:40 pm, September 4th, 2022 - 99 comments

We’re sending 120 troops to Britain to ‘train’ raw recruits for the Ukraine killing grounds. For the Defence Generals, it’s an overseas trip to aid retention. For the Ukrainian conscripts, it’s a prelude to early death. It is cynical and criminal: we should be arguing for the war to stop, not keep it going ”to the death of the last Ukrainian.”

Open mike 04/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 4th, 2022 - 113 comments

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Open mike 03/09/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, September 3rd, 2022 - 152 comments

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Daily review 02/09/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 2nd, 2022 - 18 comments

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