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Comment:What does the Government have against Maori health?
Date published: 12:22 pm, February 29th, 2024Sadly I agree Robert. It has shown us what will happen if we have another Pandemic. Health will be pushed aside for money. Science? Data? That is of no matter, give people freedom from pesky regulations, all to the Atlas playbook. Who will remove trim ...
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Comment:Open mike 28/02/2024
Date published: 10:03 pm, February 28th, 2024The "Ministry of Regulation" you mean our inhouse twerp? The Monty Python Act removing Regulations. That one? All puns intended.
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Comment:Open mike 28/02/2024
Date published: 9:58 pm, February 28th, 2024Labour and the Greens did not manufacture a crisis to frighten people. Covid did that. Huge numbers dying each day, hospitals overwhelmed, then the cool store containers of bodies, people trapped on cruise liners, that was real. Now National screamed about...
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Comment:Open mike 27/02/2024
Date published: 2:25 am, February 28th, 2024Covid caused costs unprecedented, and implementation of WEAG was overtaken by emergency covid funding and vaccination costs. You ignore what they did manage to co during a Pandemic. As for the rest see my comment to Belladonna.
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Comment:Open mike 27/02/2024
Date published: 2:18 am, February 28th, 2024Because Belladonna, they were really Act, and joined later on. Roger Douglas had to do something because Muldoon had bankrupted us, so they floated our dollar. He wanted to go further, but Lange paused for a "cup of tea".
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Comment:Open mike 27/02/2024
Date published: 6:48 pm, February 27th, 2024100% I agree.
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Comment:Open mike 27/02/2024
Date published: 6:45 pm, February 27th, 2024I was 10 when my Dad was in the thick of that Yes this is similar. playing on people's fears to gain power, to remove any obstacles to money making.
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Comment:Open mike 27/02/2024
Date published: 6:38 pm, February 27th, 2024At least you acknowledge the coalition is "worse" than other prior groups. Any group who ignores the science for politics and to reward their backers instead of building and maintaining schools, treating Maori health cancer rates and early deaths etc is ...
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Comment:Open mike 27/02/2024
Date published: 3:39 pm, February 27th, 2024Some here said Labour was "National Lite" So what do you think now National are bulldozing any social legislation and playing to the Atlas Policy Strands? I don't remember that from Labour.
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Comment:What’s Left?
Date published: 12:09 pm, February 27th, 2024By Nashe's actions he did and has...
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Comment:What’s Left?
Date published: 12:06 pm, February 27th, 2024100% agree.
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Comment:What’s Left?
Date published: 12:03 pm, February 27th, 2024100% He is another Luxon, sure he is right. Bring on the Green Kaupapa. I am a long time Labour member, but Chippie lost me by not listening to the grass roots, making Captains calls and playing "his team" like chess pieces.
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Comment:Open mike 25/02/2024
Date published: 5:58 pm, February 25th, 2024Education about food stories is important in changing attitudes. Many of us still have memories of or access to sweet smelling fresh fruit. Food kms matter. People once had your attitude to the car and walked in front of it at 5 miles an hour with a flag ...
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Comment:Open mike 25/02/2024
Date published: 2:00 pm, February 25th, 2024Good on you for having the strength of will. That may be an answer for some.
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Comment:Open mike 22/02/2024
Date published: 1:27 pm, February 22nd, 2024Mitchell must have clout through Judith Collins, and she has come up smelling of roses/ or should that be lillies after her prayer. i.e. Her active work through her relative Whale Oil to recruit "suitable" National candidates . Nicky Hager "The Hollow Men...
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Comment:Go well Grant Robertson
Date published: 9:16 pm, February 21st, 2024Go well Grant. You did us proud. Wish we had more like you.
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Comment:RIP Efeso Collins
Date published: 8:51 pm, February 21st, 2024I am in grief. Those special politicians, and a cousin lost his youngest son suddenly in Aus today. All round a sad sad day.
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Comment:Daily review 20/02/2024
Date published: 7:14 pm, February 20th, 2024Go well Grant. Thank you for all your work. I remember "We have your backs, "and we felt you did.
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Comment:Open mike 20/02/2024
Date published: 1:40 pm, February 20th, 2024The Nats will cull older frontline staff and replace them with poorly trained and paid young staff, who have a set of criteria to work through. My dying friend, going through palliative chemo, was asked during their last stint in Government, "Could you ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/02/2024
Date published: 3:50 pm, February 18th, 2024Yes AB, I would add, "Tough Love for Welfare" which is their "go to". Sad Gits!!
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Comment:Daily review 16/02/2024
Date published: 9:03 pm, February 16th, 2024He is remarkable, and O'Rourke is a find. So pleased Young has had reward at last. Yes gsays, .... bring on the Aussies.
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Comment:Open mike 15/02/2024
Date published: 8:08 pm, February 15th, 2024Well now, why aren't they for the high jump? Seems like a conflict of interest.
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Comment:A sad lament from the serial left
Date published: 11:03 am, February 15th, 2024100% Ad.
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Comment:A sad lament from the serial left
Date published: 10:30 am, February 15th, 2024My husband briefly worked for the Business Review in Rotorua, but left as he said to me "I can not agree with their Editorial line" They were always hard right. The Left has failed to use technology because as you say Mike.. "No money." What are the "Sores...
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Comment:Daily review 13/02/2024
Date published: 7:03 pm, February 13th, 2024Wait "till Rates Bills hit plus costs of metered water. What is more, profits are bound to go to Shareholders ... not back to Communities. PM Luxon smiled and walked when asked for figures.
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Comment:Open mike 13/02/2024
Date published: 9:04 am, February 13th, 2024More likely Nash
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Comment:Open mike 12/02/2024
Date published: 5:06 pm, February 12th, 2024Only too well. Now that story could stand a retelling complete with "interested parties". Johnny's infrastructure conduit for money going overseas? A monument to greed? imo.
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Comment:Open mike 12/02/2024
Date published: 5:03 pm, February 12th, 2024Rolling-on-gravel Get your extra copies of everything. Find a really good Advocate. I know how manipulative their systems become. Reporters are beginning to pick holes in the fabric of their "Policies" or rather .. the lack of them. Thinking of you and Kay...
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Comment:The apparatus behind the curtain - Part 2: The mainline
Date published: 8:34 am, February 12th, 2024The" misleading and misled" Those who do it purposefully, and those it affects.?
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Comment:The apparatus behind the curtain - Part 2: The mainline
Date published: 8:19 am, February 12th, 2024That was what was niggling Tony
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Comment:The apparatus behind the curtain - Part 2: The mainline
Date published: 2:05 am, February 12th, 2024Thank you Anne. Somehow I knew that was the case. We need to broadcast this widely. So he is a cookie cutter PM?
- Select Committee aged care inquiry to begin by July
The coalition has confirmed the Health Select Committee will carry out an inquiry into aged care. ...5 days ago - Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle
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- How Narendra Modi’s cult of personality was formed by a powerful Hindu nationalist group with a da...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aviroop Gupta, PhD Candidate, Curtin University Narendra Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has resorted to religious polarisation as it tries to rally its Hindu nationalist base in India’s ongoing general election, which ends on June 1. Just days after voting started ...5 days ago
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- Will Lost ETS Revenue Result In $800 Million Hole In Tax Cut Plan And New Borrowing?
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- Where is she now? Lorraine Moller
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