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- In many ways the media that the experts wanted, turned out to be the media they have got
- The Waitangi Tribunal Summons; or the more things stay the same
- The media were given a little list and hastened to pick out Fast Track prospects – but the Treaty aspect is fascinating, too
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- Maori push for parallel government structures
- The case for a universal family benefit
- A crisis of ambition
- Have 308 people in the Education Ministry’s Curriculum Development Team spent over $100m on a 60-page document of nothingness?
- Can taxpayers be confident PIJF cash was spent wisely?
- Lindsay Mitchell
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- Welfare: Just two timid targets from the National government
- Cuts will only scratch the surface
- What media bias looks like
- Is real change on the cards?
- Child poverty - complex or simple?
- National needs to go further
- Labour hid developing welfare crisis
- A terrible trend in desperate need of turning
- Cactus Kate
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- Valerie Davies
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- Karl du Fresne
- Howling at the moon
- The case for objectivity in journalism
- My little spat with Philip Matthews
- The John Campbell question
- The striking outpouring of media empathy for Golriz Ghahraman
- The Crewe murders revisited
- An epic display of dummy-spitting
- A grotesque irony in the honours list
- The gentle whirring of ebikes on the Timber Trail
- Peter Bush: one of the greatest of a great generation
- Stephen Franks
- Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure?
- How to repeal Labour/Green entrenchment of Water Services control by iwi elite
- Outcomes of the Parliamentary occupation
- Vax resistance and the snobbery of the PMC
- Free Speech Union against name suppression for alleged Wanaka escapees
- Are “local boards” and “community boards” real democracy?
- Continuous Disclosure Folly
- Two good judgments for our times
- Is voluntary reduction of Councillor pay prohibited?
- Minister of Health gets it right – with MTB trip
- Bassett Brash & Hide
- JOHN RAINE: Refocusing our Universities on Excellence
- DON BRASH: MORE ABOUT AUKUS
- MICHAEL BASSETT: MAORI PUSH FOR PARALLEL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES
- ROBERT MacCULLOCH: Have 308 People in the Education Ministry's Curriculum Development Team spent over $100m on a 60 page document of nothingness?
- LINDSAY MITCHELL: Babies and benefits - no good news
- DON BRASH: WHY NOT AUKUS?
- KARL du FRESNE: Howling at the Moon
- CITIZEN SCIENCE: Matt Doocey doubles down on trans “healthcare”
- LINDSAY MITCHELL: The case for cultural connectedness
- HENRY ERGAS: ‘Truth-telling’ crusade abandons history for morality
- Not PC
- #CountdownToAnzacDay: On “the last afterglow of the most radiant cultural atmosphere in human history”
- What's a Corporation?
- "...the Minister for Broadcasting has been silent. She has been criticised for this approach. In my view she should be applauded."
- Israel + Gaza: What Would Thatcher Do Today? (WWTDT?)
- Advice to would-be freedom activists
- "The line isn't Left vs Right. It's 'the truth matters' versus 'the truth is what we need it to be'."[UPDATED]
- "Under a better Resource Management system [sic], there would be no need for fast-track approval processes."
- Paying bureaucrats is not a stimulus programme
- "The capitalist system was termed 'capitalism' not by a friend of the system, but by Karl Marx" [updated]
- A question for you all on those sackings [updated]
- WHatSheSaidNZ
- Nobody said it would be easy.
- My toddler will break me before you do.
- Listen to your farmers New Zealand.
- You know you have a toddler 2.0…
- Why I’m ALWAYS late
- There is no Perfect, only Perspective
- 5 Things To Consider Before Going Back To Work…
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- Does thinking positively actually work?
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- No Punches Pulled
- Croaking Cassandra
- Barbar’s meaty issues
- Project will identify marketing potential of regenerative agriculture
- Decades of dietary advice misguided
- Meat industry continues to do a superb job
- Long way from being out of the woods yet
- Time for sector to find united voice
- Falling co-product prices prompt changes
- Regulation risks hindering innovation
- Taste Pure Nature one year on
- ANZCO achieves a huge turnaround
- Agility and innovation essential for meat exporters
- Rivetting Kate Taylor
- Uptown Farm
- Barrie Saunders
- NZTA does not know how much it spends on cones
- Utopia and government
- TV layoffs not a threat to democracy
- Reading deal – rare media bouquet
- Treaty Principles – will the ACT Bill achieve its objectives?
- Labour one of two election losers
- The Australian paradox
- The Australian shows us how.
- How to exit an ethnic rabbit hole – contrast with Australia
- Lobbyists – specific regulation?
- Quoteunquotenz
- Blog the Globe
- The Queen Charlotte Track – New Zealand
- Biking the West Coast Wilderness trail
- Salmon fishing at its best
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- Stopover in Dubai or Oman and arrive in Europe fresh and ready to go
- An active relaxers guide to Arrowtown, NZ
- Sydney – what to do in 48 hours?
- ‘Alps to Ocean’ 5 day cycle
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- Geraldine – boutique accommodation in the old Vicarage
- Armstrong on Politics
- The Democrats’debacle: some lessons from Donald Trump’s triumph and Hillary Clinton’s humiliation
- Australia’s 60 Minutes; one long hour of tabloid trash
- Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities knocks
- Pheonix rising? Part One. Same old Aussies, always cheating.
- A Little goes the wrong way
- A man in a big hurry
- Craig comes an awful cropper (twice); National counts its blessings it never struck a deal with the Conservatives’ flawed leader
- Something’s in the water; something’s astray in the Bay
- Fox on the run: Marama miscues
- Auckland housing Part One: Not everything is big in Texas
- Breaking Views
- Professor Robert MacCulloch: Bizarre Claims
- Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 23/4/24
- Mike’s Minute: Ideology is hijacking reality on climate
- Derek Mackie: Don't judge a book by its library data system
- Graeme Edgeler: The Waitangi Tribunal Summons; or the more things stay the same
- Cam Slater: All At Sea For Labour
- Ele Lludemann: Bjorge brings calm to climate conversation
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- So long, and thanks for all the clicks :)
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- “Choose Your Battles” (and dealing with those who didn’t get their copy of the battle plan)
- Understanding the cuts to IDEA autism services * UPDATED *
- Revelations
- What to look for when choosing a school for a child with special needs, in NZ
- We Stand Together, or We Fall Apart
- Seclusion versus Time Out, and Alternatives
- visible hand
- What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income?
- Pandemic preferences – the case of housing
- New Year, New Steam Sale
- How did our 2023 forecasts go?
- Where have all the good Boxing Day sales gone
- Unrealised losses, high interest rates, and financial market distress
- What can a new lawnmower tell us about labour markets?
- Cost of job loss: Wage scarring
- Was the New Zealand 2023/24 Budget inflationary?
- How much does benefit abatement influence labour supply?
- Stats Chat
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- The importance of insurance for small businesses in New Zealand
- What you need to keep in mind before hiring family lawyers in Sydney
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- 4 Major Reasons Why New Businesses Fail
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- How to Organize Your Medicine Cabinet
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- interest.co.nz
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- Bowalleyroad
- The Folly Of Impermanence.
- Apposite Quotations.
- No Longer Trusted: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
- In Whose Best Interests?
- Something Important: The Curious Death of the School Strike 4 Climate Movement.
- Fair Enough!
- The Missing Body.
- National’s Governing For (Crony) Capitalists – Not Capitalism.
- Rapture and Rage.
- Promiscuous Empathy: Chris Trotter Replies To His Critics.
- Dim Post
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- Election results
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- Story People
- Exercise 2: 5 Days of Practicing Love (for the Real World)
- 5 Days of Practicing Love (for the Real World): Exercise 1
- It's the Middle Things
- Stuff We Just ... Say
- Ingredients of Writing
- Getting That Namaste Going
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- What The Cool Kids Are Doing
- Talking about Peace without Shouting
- Liberty Scott
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion is a fundamentally low-grade, Orwellian anti-liberal project
- Wellington is in a funk
- It might be farewell Newshub, but intelligent TV news disappeared over 30 years ago
- Mining companies, white supremacy, Zionism, neo-colonialism, libertarianism and education vouchers: The fascist programme to establish a racist, oppressive state that will wreck the planet
- A Revelation
- New Zealand politics in 2024
- Some questions for those protesting for Palestine
- Let's talk about international law, Hamas and Israel
- The tolerance for hatred from some MPs
- 2023 General Election what you wont hear
- Open Parachute
- What happens after the war – Mariupol
- In journalism facts should be verifiable
- Elections in Russia and Ukraine
- Why has journalism, and Tucker Carlson, become so controversial?
- RIP Gonzalo Lira
- How could this happen?
- Free Gonzalo Lira!
- A neutral Ukraine would have prevented this mess
- All governments lie – so does the media. Who should you trust?
- Following the war in Ukraine – yeah, right
- Sciblogs
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- Liberation
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- Cartoons about National Party leader Todd Muller
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- John Moore: Podcast on International Working Women's Day
- John Moore: Podcast on FGM
- Cartoons about the politics of law and order in NZ
- Cartoons about the NZ First donations scandal
- Cartoons about #MeTooLabour
- YourNZ
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- Imperator Fish
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- Life Behind the Iron Drape
- Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other.
- National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag
- Paris Has Changed Me – Logic Bombing the Left on Multiculturalism.
- Today’s Letter to the Editor | For Anthony Green, Muslim Association of Canterbury.
- I Have the Answer: Individualism … #Paris
- $1 Billion To Tinker With a Bit of Out-Of-The-Box Stasi Software | Women MPs Go Walk About
- If You Support The Voluntary Transactions of Capitalism, Avoid NZ Banks. #Privacy
- Today's Letter to the Editor - Christchurch Press | Euthanasia
- Mils Muliaina and Reversing the Burden of Proof in Sexual Assault Cases.
- Health Minister Jonathan Coleman Stand Down Please – Obesity to the Police State.
- PM of NZ
- Far North councils ready to waste ratepayers hard earnt taxes
- Well, that worked...
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- NZTA to give monthly updates on Brynderwyn bypass
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- A random impertinent question...
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- Comment of the day...
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- Labour chooses to be fair to beneficiaries
- Morgan Godfery, and the mystery of the inflated job title
- Fact Checkers
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- David Farrier – “churches are the problem (and let me throw in some racism too)”
- No Right Turn – how disgusting that National defends me!
- Suspended from twitter
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- kiwipolitico
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- Arguing about a moot point.
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- The boy is home.
- Another Brief on Intelligence Matters.
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- NZ on Hamas and Zionist Settlers.
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- Oamaru Opera House
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- Tim Beveridge at The Oamaru Opera House this Saturday night.
- The Great Trash n Treasure Garage Sale November 14th
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Who was King Zog?
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Yes, Most people think of Gorton
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He was King of Albania before the Second World War
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