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Comment:Jacinda's campaign launch speech
Date published: 6:41 pm, August 20th, 2017Gini coefficient. How concentrated or spread is the country's wealth.
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Comment:Labour Campaign Launch this Sunday
Date published: 1:00 pm, August 20th, 2017http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/08/livestream-labour-party-campaign-launch-2017.html
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Comment:Lefties on The Standard: MMP
Date published: 11:01 am, August 20th, 2017"Besides which, there was probably a clause in the Labour-Greens Memorandum of Understanding on this kind of scenario; “each Party will help each other out in the event of getting bogged down in mud“." I feel like this is a metaphor that needs to be ...
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Comment:Lefties on The Standard: MMP
Date published: 10:40 am, August 20th, 2017I'd prefer confidence and supply, but Winston only looks out for one person: Winston. So offering a ministerial position might be enough to keep him onside. Perhaps Deputy PM, Foreign Affairs, or Finance. That might appease some of the anti-Green faction ...
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Comment:Lefties on The Standard: MMP
Date published: 10:01 am, August 20th, 2017How hard is it to rank your candidates from most prefered to least prefered? People managed it with the flag referendum. And besides people don't have to rank every candidate anyway. If you don't want your vote transferred to a candidate you really don't ...
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Comment:Lefties on The Standard: MMP
Date published: 9:39 am, August 20th, 2017If there is an incoming centre-left government I'd like to see electoral reform. Implement some of 2012 Electoral Commission recommendations. Particularly, reducing the threshold from 5% to 4%, removing the one seat threshold, and removing the provision ...
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Comment:Labour Campaign Launch this Sunday
Date published: 5:36 pm, August 19th, 2017Effective.
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Comment:Two good polls for Labour - and a call to arms for the Greens
Date published: 7:16 pm, August 9th, 2017This is within striking distance of National. If it stays at this level, Winston is still King, but we could have a hung parliament or Labour sellout again and gives NZF the coalition spot. That might allow the Greens to be on the crossbench and recover ...
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Comment:English damaged by Barclay scandal - poll
Date published: 10:56 am, August 8th, 2017Seems like very deliberate and cynical timing by Newshub. Two Green MPs have jumped ship. Quick! Quick! Get the poll that makes English look bad out now so it's buried under the Green shit-storm.
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Comment:ACT in blue - gives up all pretense
Date published: 1:04 pm, August 1st, 2017More concentration of wealth, ergo, power, ergo, less democratic society, ergo ACT is anti-democratic.
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Comment:Ok, I'm pissed off with the Labour caucus again. Time to switch
Date published: 11:13 am, August 1st, 2017Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is the only progressive party in Parliament that is worth supporting at the moment. Labour is full or Tory-lites. Just like British Labour in the pre-Corbyn era, and the Democratic Party in the US. People on the left ...
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Comment:A tale of three immigrants
Date published: 10:01 am, July 29th, 2017Don't forget the Indian students that got dicked around by some shady paperwork that was not of their own doing.
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Comment:Getting Corbyn
Date published: 10:16 am, June 12th, 2017Make Socialism Great Again!
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Comment:Madman Trump withdraws America from Paris Accord
Date published: 9:37 am, June 2nd, 2017As bad as China's human rights record is, perhaps we should look to re-orientate of foreign policy to it. At least they doing something about lowering their carbon-emissions. Also, does anyone know Tillerson's schedule next week? I want to give him a piece...
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Comment:NZ and UK political spectrums
Date published: 1:20 pm, May 30th, 2017According to some, probably National and ACT rhetoricians, that makes you possibly centre-left. Funny that eh? If you're way out right, you're a good common-sense centre-right voter. But if you're hanging out just left of centre on the compass you're a far...
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Comment:President Pence
Date published: 8:55 pm, May 21st, 2017Ol' Bradbury has lost his way over the last couple of years, but I think he's spot on with this analysis. http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2017/05/20/the-dangerous-fantasy-of-removing-trump/ As incompetent and dangerous as Trump is he needs to be curtailed then ...
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Comment:Rivers of poo protest
Date published: 2:31 pm, May 8th, 2017Where can I get an inflatable poo emoji?
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Comment:Scientology awarded major contract by new Ministry for Vulnerable Children
Date published: 9:13 am, April 3rd, 2017See, the first thing progressive do after thinking it seems too suspicious to be true is check for verified sources. It's what I did. I found no sources, so immediately dismissed it. I then saw it was posted on April 1st. Progressive voters tend to be ...
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Comment:Scientology awarded major contract by new Ministry for Vulnerable Children
Date published: 9:03 am, April 3rd, 2017Technically, daylight saving ended on April 2nd.
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Comment:Scientology awarded major contract by new Ministry for Vulnerable Children
Date published: 8:47 am, April 3rd, 2017Well done. For a minute I was like what the fuck? Then I did what all rational thinking progressives do (unlike bottomfeeding Trump troll conservatives), and checked for the article's sources. No sources? Probably garbage. Oh, it's April 1st. You fooled me...
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Comment:Caption competition
Date published: 2:02 pm, December 12th, 2016Key tossing files into a bin labelled "Whale Oil Stuff."
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Comment:Bill English to be elected as National Leader
Date published: 8:40 am, December 9th, 2016Someone just drew attention to their own trite stupidity. ... Right-wing trolls. Nothing valuable to say or contribute. ... *Yawn*...*Sips coffee*
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Comment:Caption contest
Date published: 2:11 pm, December 6th, 2016Look! White people!
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Comment:Open mike 13/04/2016
Date published: 2:05 pm, April 13th, 2016http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/301350/hire-new-zealanders-first,-govt-says Is it just me or is this policy pinching by the party with the better PR machine (or more money to throw at PR)? I know Labour says some dumb things about race, but they say...
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Comment:Little on TPP: "I don't support it, we don't support it"
Date published: 2:54 pm, January 28th, 2016Goff just lost my mayoral vote. Tool.
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Comment:Herald Bingo
Date published: 9:34 am, January 20th, 2016Genius.
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Comment:TVOne's reporting of the latest Colmar Brunton Poll result
Date published: 8:44 am, October 20th, 2015Can you lay a formal complaint?
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Comment:Open mike 11/10/2015
Date published: 1:37 pm, October 11th, 2015It's amazing, frustrating, and terrifying to note the difference in coverage right now between the Radio New Zealand and the New Zealand Herald regarding the horrible terrorist attack in Turkey. It's been the lead story all morning on the RNZ website but ...
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Comment:Green Politics
Date published: 6:30 pm, September 25th, 2015Can this be sent to Bomber Bradbury, because when it comes to understanding Green Party policy he's a complete muppet? The whole sell-out to National thing a complete joke that got out of control because narrow-minded idiots on the left can work out ...
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Comment:Open mike 24/09/2015
Date published: 5:50 pm, September 24th, 2015I was about to post this. Good to see Campbell hitting up the really important stories that actually matter. TV3's loss is actually New Zealand's loss.
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Comment:Open mike 24/09/2015
Date published: 5:44 pm, September 24th, 2015Because people are tired of old Third Way Labour. They want fresh ideas and young faces. They only reason Ardern lost Central Auckland is because some Green Party voters can't figure out how to vote strategically, and the party can't seem to figure this ...
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- Bryce Edwards: Serious populist discontent is bubbling up in New Zealand
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- The Folly Of Impermanence.
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- 'This bill is dangerous for the environment and our democracy'
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- Tense office dynamics draining your soul? Kink can help with that
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- An obscure climate accounting decision with billion-dollar consequences
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- ‘There was life in the old girl yet’: Dame Susan Devoy on taking reality TV by stormIn this excerpt from her new memoir, Dame Susan Devoy remembers her turn as star contestant on the 2022 season of Celebrity Treasure Island. The most anxious time of every day was pre-elimination, when you knew this could be your final day on the show. I felt such contradictory emotions, ...7 days ago
- Auditor-General criticises way University of Waikato contracted Steven JoyceJohn Ryan says the University of Waikato did not invite multiple contractors and reached out to the former finance minister directly. ...7 days ago
- 'Not my first legal rodeo' – Winston Peters on defamation threatForeign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says he will not be cowed by threats of legal action, having received a legal letter from Bob Carr. ...7 days ago
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- Winston Peters gives China speech amid legal drama and AUKUS questionsThe Foreign Minister spoke about the NZ-China relationship amid lingering questions about the AUKUS security alliance . ...7 days ago
- Gone By Lunchtime: Mojo machine misfires, honeymoon cancelledWhat’s to blame for the coalition’s choppy start? Six months in, and the mojo meter is in the doldrums. A new poll would put National out of power and sees its leader, Chris Luxon, sliding in popularity. How much is it about policy, how much coalition management and a perception ...7 days ago
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