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Date published: 2:31 pm, January 17th, 2022 - 101 comments
It will be a few days before we know if the omicron variant of Covid-19 is starting to spread in New Zealand. There are things we can be doing that will determine how that goes.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 17th, 2022 - 111 comments
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Date published: 2:54 pm, January 16th, 2022 - 17 comments
Russian peacekeepers are already leaving Kazakhstan having nipped the ‘colour revolution’ in the bud. Blinken clearly didn’t have a clue when he said Russians never leave the house. Russian intelligence was superb. Now we wait for Russia’s response to US likely refusal to pull back from its borders. One thing I’d bet on – no invasion of Ukraine.
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Date published: 1:11 pm, January 16th, 2022 - 151 comments
Where western minds are busy arguing if indigenous knowledge is science, botanist and first nations woman Robin Wall Kimmerer exemplifies how to do both at the same time.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 16th, 2022 - 251 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 15th, 2022 - 150 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 14th, 2022 - 39 comments
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Date published: 12:48 pm, January 14th, 2022 - 184 comments
Labour are doing the things about the housing crisis they said they would. It’s not working.
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Date published: 8:19 am, January 14th, 2022 - 20 comments
Boris Johnson’s reign as UK Prime Minister may be terminal after news of a Downing Street party held during lockdown was leaked to the press.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 14th, 2022 - 227 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 13th, 2022 - 49 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 13th, 2022 - 397 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 12th, 2022 - 9 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2022 - 159 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 11th, 2022 - 26 comments
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Date published: 1:18 pm, January 11th, 2022 - 122 comments
Climate, ecology, welfare, housing – we are now at the point for the Greens to go ‘fuck it, time to go back to our radical roots’.
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Date published: 9:31 am, January 11th, 2022 - 49 comments
Harete Hipango is in the news again, this time for posing with a group of anti vaxxers and posting a photo and making some pretty way out there comments on social media.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 11th, 2022 - 86 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 10th, 2022 - 23 comments
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Date published: 2:46 pm, January 10th, 2022 - 324 comments
In seven or eight days from now, the dutiful lackeys of the NZ government and the public health dept they direct, are set to come after every child in NZ between the ages of 5 and 12 with injections of m-RNA to hand.
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Date published: 8:42 am, January 10th, 2022 - 155 comments
Well known socialite, fashion blogger and apparent Constitutional expert Jamie Ridge thinks that the country’s MIQ arrangements are completely unconstitutional.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 10th, 2022 - 78 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 9th, 2022 - 120 comments
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Date published: 10:40 pm, January 8th, 2022 - 22 comments
When I heard US Secretary of State Blinken’s take-away line from his D.C. press conference on RNZ’s news bulletin today on events in Kazakhstan ‘I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave’ I wondered what the Iraqis would think.
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Date published: 7:05 pm, January 8th, 2022 - 12 comments
The Helen Kelly biography by Rebacca Macfie provides a clear and intense overview of what has happened to New Zealand society over the past 40 years from a time of high union membership and equality to now where unions struggle and inequality is significant.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 8th, 2022 - 163 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 7th, 2022 - 52 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 7th, 2022 - 122 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 6th, 2022 - 14 comments
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Date published: 9:44 am, January 6th, 2022 - 132 comments
With over 61,000 new Covid cases reported yesterday Australia is in the midst of an infection surge that it has not seen before. What lessons can New Zealand learn from Australia’s handling of the pandemic?
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 6th, 2022 - 175 comments
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