Notes from the CATA Conference: keynote address by Stella O’Malley
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Date published: 6:05 am, August 12th, 2022 - 3 comments
The Child and Adolescent Therapists Association hosted a conference recently on children, adolescents and gender identity.
Open mike 12/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 12th, 2022 - 31 comments
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Daily review 11/08/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 11th, 2022 - 31 comments
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Greens: Bill to ban mining on conservation land pulled from biscuit tin
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Date published: 2:37 pm, August 11th, 2022 - 18 comments
Eugenie Sage’s Members Bill has been drawn.
“We call on the Labour Government to back the Bill so it can finally fulfil its promise to ban new mining projects on public conservation land”
The Three Strikes abomination is no more
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Date published: 7:50 am, August 11th, 2022 - 44 comments
The three strikes legislation, the brainchild of dead baby identity stealing former ACT MP David Garrett, is no more.
Open mike 11/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 11th, 2022 - 87 comments
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Daily review 10/08/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 10th, 2022 - 25 comments
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Uffindel’s new allegation
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Date published: 8:08 am, August 10th, 2022 - 231 comments
Radio New Zealand has published new allegations of bullying by National MP Sam Uffindell this time by a female flatmate who flatted with Uffindell while at University.
Open mike 10/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 10th, 2022 - 129 comments
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Daily review 09/08/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 9th, 2022 - 14 comments
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Was This The Change We Needed?
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Date published: 1:07 pm, August 9th, 2022 - 11 comments
Crises that profoundly test a small developed state like New Zealand have required huge growth in state strength and policy power. But was it the change we needed?
Open mike 09/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2022 - 72 comments
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National’s culture problem
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Date published: 9:14 pm, August 8th, 2022 - 139 comments
National MP Sam Uffindell has today been engaged in a media wide mea culpa after allegations that he bullied a young student and was expelled from Kings College have been publicised.
Daily review 08/08/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 8th, 2022 - 62 comments
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Open mike 08/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2022 - 118 comments
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National tries to blame Labour for National’s tax flip flop flip
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Date published: 10:25 am, August 7th, 2022 - 13 comments
Chris Bishop has accused Labour of engaging in dirty politics for pointing out that this week National has changed its policy on income tax indexation twice.
Open mike 07/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 7th, 2022 - 90 comments
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Open mike 06/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2022 - 107 comments
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Daily review 05/08/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 5th, 2022 - 15 comments
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Socialist economic views on current inflation
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Date published: 9:07 am, August 5th, 2022 - 56 comments
Energy costs, supply line issues, worker rights.
Open mike 05/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 5th, 2022 - 37 comments
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Daily review 04/08/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 4th, 2022 - 23 comments
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Luxon’s latest gaffes
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Date published: 9:48 am, August 4th, 2022 - 57 comments
Hot on his confusion of Hawaii with Te Puke Christopher Luxon’s has dropped a couple of new clangers by admitting then denying that National will not increase health funding at least by the rate of inflation and then by displaying his class prejudice by saying people are not going to get rich on welfare.
National’s weird take on the Government’s Climate Adaption Plan
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Date published: 9:05 am, August 4th, 2022 - 7 comments
The Government’s release of the National Adaption Plan to deal with climate change has been met by National with an insistence that who should pay for potentially hundreds of billions of costs should have already been identified.
Should therapists and counsellors speak about the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children?
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Date published: 6:05 am, August 4th, 2022 - 48 comments
Is there a connection between the closure of the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in the UK, and a conference being held 12,000 miles away in Nelson, Aotearoa?
Open mike 04/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 4th, 2022 - 57 comments
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Daily review 03/08/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 3rd, 2022 - 12 comments
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What New Zealanders are thinking about climate change
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Date published: 9:13 am, August 3rd, 2022 - 29 comments
A new Ipsos poll has some good news.
Chris Bishop supports AND opposes vaccine mandates
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Date published: 8:28 am, August 3rd, 2022 - 51 comments
Remember when National’s Chris Bishop thought that Labour was not being staunch enough of mandates? He now thinks that Labour is being too staunch.
Open mike 03/08/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 3rd, 2022 - 84 comments
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Daily review 02/08/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 2nd, 2022 - 42 comments
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