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  1. Convoy protest 16/2/22

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:05 am, February 16th, 2022 -  273 comments
    Categories: covid-19
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    A general discussion post.

  2. The right to protest

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:05 am, February 13th, 2022 -  131 comments
    Categories: blogs, covid-19, Deep stuff, facebook, health, human rights, Media, Social issues, trevor mallard
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    Complaints that the police are unnecessarily interfering with the Wellington Convoy’s right to protest appear to be vastly overstated.

  3. And what have they done anyway?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:41 am, February 2nd, 2022 -  107 comments
    Categories: climate change, covid-19, education, Environment, health, housing, jacinda ardern, labour, law and "order", poverty, uncategorized, Unions
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    With Ardern getting a good-old media beat-down, remember here’s how to change a country for good like no one else but Labour can.

  4. Is it time for the Greens to go their own way?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 1:18 pm, January 11th, 2022 -  122 comments
    Categories: activism, greens, Metiria Turei, Parliament
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    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’.

     

  5. Long covid, omicron and the precautionary principle

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 1:12 pm, December 20th, 2021 -  95 comments
    Categories: covid-19, disability, long covid
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    There are still so many things we don’t know about long covid and omicron presents a whole new set of challenges.

  6. No One Cares

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:59 am, December 18th, 2021 -  71 comments
    Categories: covid-19, Deep stuff, health, uncategorized
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    I had reason to visit Waitara in Taranaki recently, and I don’t want to sound like there’s a different world still operating … … but the fish and chip shop people weren’t wearing masks, I passed three guys burning the street with dirt-bikes and no helmets and famously lank and long hair, random fireworks lit up […]

  7. V Day!

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:16 am, December 17th, 2021 -  319 comments
    Categories: covid-19, health, labour, national, same old national
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    Yesterday was Aotearoa’s V day, the day that we reached the goal of having 90% of the target population vaccinated against Covid.

  8. Is National’s Luxon among the quick or the dead?

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 7:15 am, December 8th, 2021 -  136 comments
    Categories: brand key, Christopher Luxon, john key, Media, politicans, Politics
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    Simon Louisson has been observing Chris Luxon with a journalists eye over the last week, especially with regard to the Jack Tame interview.  A bit of a mixed bag. Fast thinking but with baggage. It will be interesting to see whether the electorate will again suppress its egalitarian instincts and vote for a smooth-talking rich man.

  9. National’s factional problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:18 am, November 28th, 2021 -  91 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, farming, liberalism, national, religion, same old national, Simon Bridges
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    National’s basic problem is that it has three discrete factions, christian conservatives, urban liberals and the country grouping.  And no coherent vision to reconcile these totally disparate groupings.

  10. Class oppression and discrimination

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:45 pm, November 27th, 2021 -  79 comments
    Categories: class, discrimination, identity, patriarchy
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    A brief analysis of power.

  11. What National Needs To Do

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:04 am, November 27th, 2021 -  83 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, covid-19, national, Parliament, same old national, Shane Reti
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    Since the left are experts at internal knifing, National should learn from the left about how to recover.  What National needsto do to recover.

  12. He Waka Eke Noa?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:32 am, November 24th, 2021 -  14 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, ETS, farming, science, uncategorized
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    While a core of farmers protested a few days ago against farm environmental regulation with long lines of tractors, the organised form of agribusiness, Maori and government working together have concluded that making a climate different isn’t possible.

  13. Jacinda Ardern’s speech to the Labour Conference

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 1:46 pm, November 6th, 2021 -  76 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour
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    The text of Jacinda Ardern’s speech delivered today to the Labour Conference.

  14. Govt unprepared for transition when Queen dies

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 12:30 pm, November 4th, 2021 -  70 comments
    Categories: Maori Issues, Politics, republic
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    “We will soon be required to face the question, ‘After Elizabeth — what next?’,” Peter Hamilton wrote in his just published memoir, New Moons for Sam. He says it would be completely inappropriate for Elizabeth’s son Charles or his heir, William, to become Aotearoa’s next head of state. A head of state elected by 2/3rds of Parliament perhaps?

  15. None of this is remotely sustainable

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:31 pm, November 3rd, 2021 -  43 comments
    Categories: disaster, Environment, sustainability, water
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    The story of New Zealand’s most polluted lake is the same story running through all of New Zealand society. We treat nature as an after thought that we can fix when things go wrong, even when we can’t. What if we told a different story?

  16. Alt COP26: “Get in line or get out of the way”

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:00 am, November 2nd, 2021 -  30 comments
    Categories: climate change, COP26, sustainability
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    Climate solutions are coming from Indigenous peoples and other system thinkers who are deeply connected with nature, not the neoliberal diehards who treat nature as a grab bag of resources to be manipulated.

  17. Good Again

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:48 am, October 28th, 2021 -  23 comments
    Categories: covid-19, jacinda ardern, labour, Privatisation, roger douglas, water
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    COVID has reminded us how good New Zealand is, and we should remember how we were reminded.

  18. Mad Tuesday

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 7:58 pm, October 22nd, 2021 -  15 comments
    Categories: covid-19, education, schools
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    NZ Government is jumping at the deep end by re-opening schools on Tuesday.

  19. Covid and kindness

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:16 am, October 20th, 2021 -  127 comments
    Categories: covid-19, disability, health, Maori Issues, vaccines
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    The vaccine is a bloody useful tool, not a panacea. This is a long crisis that requires us to pay heed the bigger picture.

  20. Time for Auckland to go back to level four?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:55 am, October 15th, 2021 -  114 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, chris hipkins, covid-19, Deep stuff, health, national
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    With daily Covid infection rates in Tamaki Makaurau increasing it may be time for the Government to consider a short sharp lockdown to try and arrest this increase and to let vaccination rates improve.

  21. Gender split is interesting in latest poll

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:49 am, October 7th, 2021 -  30 comments
    Categories: act, covid-19, gender, health, maori party, national, political parties, Politics, polls, same old national, Social issues
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    The latest Roy Morgan poll was run between August 30th and September 26th. The headline results of Labour/Greens with 55% (increase by 3.5%) against opposition National/Act/Maori parties on 41% (up 0.5%) were good enough. But they also showed the gender split.. Women are deserting the right.

  22. Holding our covid nerve

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 9:31 am, October 6th, 2021 -  48 comments
    Categories: covid-19, labour, vaccines
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    and keeping the faith.

    That our covid response is not working out perfectly doesn’t mean we or the government are failing. What we need more of at this point are stories about ‘what if things work out’.  Not in a Pollyanna or return to BAU sense, but that we can still be ok. We need strong narratives of what that might be like, us being ok despite the pandemic.

  23. Priorities?

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 7:54 pm, October 3rd, 2021 -  16 comments
    Categories: climate change, covid-19, disaster, Environment, Politics, science
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    Is setting priorities just a matter of resources?

  24. Who are these angry Aucklanders?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:31 am, October 3rd, 2021 -  243 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, covid-19, health, making shit up, Media, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    This weekend there have been two attempts to undermine the current Auckland Covid lock down.  Brian Tamaki’s was not the most ludicrous.

  25. Key’s baaaack

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:35 am, September 26th, 2021 -  273 comments
    Categories: brand key, covid-19, health, john key, Judith Collins, Media, national, same old national
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    John Key is back and has described New Zealand as a smug hermit kingdom for daring to so far achieve something no other western nation has been able to accomplish, holding back Covid and preventing thousands of deaths.

  26. The Golden Ticket

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:00 am, September 24th, 2021 -  110 comments
    Categories: australian politics, covid-19, health, jacinda ardern
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    Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claimed yesterday that a very high vaccination rate in New Zealand would represent a “golden ticket” and make level 4 lockdowns redundant. What could that mean that’s positive for New Zealand?

  27. Why did the chicken cross the road?

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 9:58 pm, September 21st, 2021 -  26 comments
    Categories: covid-19, health, vaccines
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    Government has taken a ‘calculated risk’ with opening up Auckland somewhat tonight.

  28. COVID, We Need To Talk About Class

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:51 am, September 14th, 2021 -  27 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, class, class war, covid-19, david seymour, health, jacinda ardern, poverty
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    We’ve never seen a nationwide disease illustrate class and deprivation like the future of the country depended on it. Not like this. This should change us.

  29. MPs should not only follow the rules but follow them with stars

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:16 am, August 31st, 2021 -  68 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, Parliament, trevor mallard
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    Judith Collins has insisted on travelling from Auckland to Wellington so she can stand and shout in an empty Parliament Chamber.

  30. Covid and the media

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:42 am, August 29th, 2021 -  54 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, covid-19, health, jacinda ardern, labour, making shit up, Media, national, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    This week there has been some argy bargy between the Twitterati including the Waitakerati and the media on coverage of Covid in Aotearoa with elements of the media complaining that the criticisms are unjustified.  A brief review of some of the offerings this week would suggest otherwise.

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