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Kiwi Blog- Government proposes censorship regime for blogs
- Horrific
- General Debate 02 June 2023
- Maybe WCC should focus on doing the basics right?
- Principled and unprincipled defections
- Press Gallery changing the rules
- General Debate 01 June 2023
- Fit and proper to be a lawyer?
- Will Labour and Māori Party do a deal so they win more seats off fewer votes?
- Failing to correct statements in the House is clearly serious – but the real crime of Tinetti is following up on Hipkins driving education into the ground.
- Inquiring Mind
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness – #4 – Mystery Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers – with Ian Carmichael
- Jazz in the Night: Humphrey Lyttelton – I Play As I Please (1958)
- Death of a Prankster – Audiobook – M.C. Beaton – Hamish Macbeth – #7 – read by David Monteith
- Agatha Christie Movies: The Pale Horse (1997) – Colin Buchanan, Hermione Norris
- McLevy – The Edinburgh Detective with Brian Cox – #45 – S11E04 – The Devil Makes A Move
- Aftersun (2006) – Peter Capaldi, Sarah Parish
- Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler – The Men From The Ministry S04 E02 – The Tubby Submarine
- Midnight Mystery: Nero Wolfe – #2 – S01 E02/3 – Champagne For One – Timothy Hutton,Maury Chaykin,
- Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – #34 – S03E08 – Death Do Us Part – Finale
- Spooks – #59 – S07E03 – The Tip Off – Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-Jones, Raza Jaffrey, Miranda Raison, Hermione Norris, Richard Armitage
- No Minister
- PointOfOrderNZ
- GRAHAM ADAMS: “Co-governance for your deck!”
- Code of conduct for school board members is announced by a minister whose grasp of Parliament’s rules is in question
- Garrick Tremain’s view…
- Levy on agricultural fertiliser ruled out by farmers in the battle on climate change – but that doesn’t mean rejection by govt
- Verrall enthuses about the beneficial effects of tax breaks while O’Connor muses on a fertiliser tax
- THOMAS CRANMER: Minister awaits review into DOC funding hole
- Mātauranga Māori will propel Pāpāmoa school kids’ science learning (in te reo) and give lift-off to NZ’s space policy
- BARRIE SAUNDERS: Exiting the constitutional rabbit hole
- Govt is open about NZ’s science relationship with China – but a ministerial statement on defence relationship is hard to find
- THOMAS CRANMER: John Tamihere and the Waipareira Trust
- Lindsay Mitchell
- Article Four Activism
- Scrapping $5 fee makes no sense
- Celebrating single parents
- Are children safer or not?
- 3,000 more children on benefits in just one year
- Prison policy fiasco
- Deadly excuses
- Responding to Marama Davidson's dogma
- The disconnect between unemployment and welfare dependency
- Gloomy outlook for young people on benefits
- Cactus Kate
- The Casual Misogyny Of Low Expectations For Women's Sport
- Team Of $55m Getting Out Their Sorry Machines
- No Paula and Simon The Left Wing Do Not Like You They Are Mocking YOU
- When Will The Modern Day Nats Learn From 1984?
- New Zealand About To Be "Each Way" Albowed
- Foot and Mouth For NZ Is Worse Than Covid - What Is Labour Doing?
- Thor Love and Thunder Review
- Valerie Davies
- Oamaru Life
- Dawn over Oamaru Harbour
- The Night Sky in North Otago
- Another New Oamaru Attraction Opens
- Fire and canapés awaiting our guests.
- Whitestone City Opens in Oamaru
- New Book on Oamaru and the Waitaki Released
- The Town Bike Opens for Business
- So Much is New in Oamaru!
- First Annual Great North Otago Potato Race
- Oamaru’s Pen-y-bryn Lodge on TV
- Karl du Fresne
- Please, Stuff, spare us the hypocritical rhetoric
- Jeremy Clarke will be missed
- Notes on a road trip to the Far North
- A fresh appraisal of an unfashionable subject
- Just another day at Wellington City Council ....
- Hipkins goes the full sausage roll
- Don't mention Hunga Tonga
- Catfishing and how to avoid it
- An unexpected encounter in Money, Mississippi
- We are no better than Putin's Russia or Xi's China
- 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
- TREMAIN: Fog cannons
- OLIVER HARTWICH: Fact-checking government claims
- ANANISH CHAUDHURI: The collateral damage from our zero Covid mindset
- TREMAIN: Break-ins
- MICHAEL BASSETT: JOHN TAMIHERE WANTS A “COALITION OF CHAOS”
- TREMAIN: Raiders and raiders
- BARRIE SAUNDERS: Exiting the constitutional rabbit hole
- BARRY BRILL: What Will We Do About .... the Mammoth Methane Mistake
- TREMAIN: Crime wave
- RODNEY HIDE talks to DR RODERICK MULGAN about Law Society's proposed inclusion of Treaty of Waitangi
- Not PC
- Memo to Hipkins: Taxpayers' Money is Not Free
- 'Hate-speech' regulation is back again
- "For over 30 years, NZers have believed that they produce relatively high emissions of greenhouse gases; and that our farmers are responsible for nearly half of all those emissions. No longer. Science moves on."
- The Big Problem With the Traditional 'Political Spectrum' Children Are Taught in Schools
- NIMBYs are economically illiterate
- Another highly-paid beneficiary
- National promises more housing uncertainty [updated]
- "If you need to know the colour of the speaker before you know if you are offended, then the hate is coming from you"
- "For the first time men could conceive a social order in which the ancient moral aspiration for liberty, equality, and fraternity was consistent with the abolition of poverty and the increase of wealth."
- “The consequences for human welfare involved in questions [of economic growth] are simply staggering" - Vale Robert Lucas
- 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…
- Family Planning Anxiety
- Does thinking positively actually work?
- Let’s talk about our mental health
- 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
- Exiting the constitutional rabbit hole
- Save Wellington from LGWM zealots
- Lobbyists – specific regulation?
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice – media contrast with NZ
- $100 billion nationalisation but where is the business media?
- Mode Shift DomPost
- Damaging a wounded Wellington
- Broadcasting merger – why and what will it mean?
- Three Waters – a totally unnecessary battle
- Richard Randerson – yes there is a better way
- Quoteunquotenz
- Blog the Globe
- ‘Alps to Ocean’ 5 day cycle
- Secrets you need to know before visiting Tuscany
- Geraldine – boutique accommodation in the old Vicarage
- Renaissance – The Age of Genius
- Why the Rome Cavalieri is our favourite hotel?
- Beautiful Namibia and three first class lodges
- There’s a lot to LOVE about Cape Town
- 5 things to LOVE about Franschhoek, Cape Town
- International travel and Blog the Globe are back
- Lake Alta, high in The Remarkables, Central Otago
- 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
- Point of Order: Code of conduct for school board members is announced.....
- Martin Hanson: The New Lysenkoism - is advocating biological reality a thought crime?
- Peter Hemmingson: Thoughts on the Treaty Grudge Industry
- Mike Hosking: 1,800 cops isn't the victory the Government think it is
- Garrick Tremain: Fog Cannons
- Oliver Hartwich: Fact-checking government claims
- Graham Adams: “Co-governance for your deck!”
- Ananish Chaudhuri: The collateral damage from our zero Covid mindset
- Breaking Views Update: Week of 28.05.23
- Bruce Moon: What a bugger's muddle!
- Agrarian
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- Offsetting Behaviour
- Quota management and environmental stewardship
- The tragedy of the anticommons and consenting
- Afternoon roundup
- Carbon capture and storage
- The perils of Council-Owned entities
- Reader mailbag - on circular economies
- A cigarette burn in the Crown Accounts
- Tyler's warning for New Zealand
- Evening roundup
- Unrest in the forest; trouble with the trees
- Autism & Oughtimsms
- My New Blog: Sounding Out Dyslexia
- So long, and thanks for all the clicks :)
- Five (or Six) Diagnoses, Two Woo-tastic Communities, and an Eight Year Old Under a Pohutukawa Tree
- Drowning in Need: Autism and Swimming in New Zealand
- “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
- Was the New Zealand 2023/24 Budget inflationary?
- How much does benefit abatement influence labour supply?
- Was the Aussie 2023/24 Budget inflationary?
- Should we offer higher benefits to those over 55?
- Assessing benefit eligibility and adequacy
- What is income for tax?
- Effective tax rates
- Does JobSeeker go to JobSeekers?
- How adequate are unemployment benefits? A new perspective
- Compulsory income insurance submissions
- Stats Chat
- Recycling
- NRL Predictions for Round 14
- Top 14 Predictions for the Quarter-finals
- Super Rugby Predictions for Week 15
- Currie Cup Predictions for Round 13
- NRL Predictions for Round 13
- Super Rugby Predictions for Week 14
- Currie Cup Predictions for Round 12
- Sniffing out Covid accuracy?
- NRL Predictions for Round 12
- Macdoctor
- Finding the best solicitors in Sydney
- The importance of insurance for small businesses in New Zealand
- What you need to keep in mind before hiring family lawyers in Sydney
- High-Quality Screen Repairs for Samsung Phones
- What Makes Tax Accountants Important in Every Small Business?
- 4 Major Reasons Why New Businesses Fail
- You Can Heal Anything: You Are the New Medicine
- How to Organize Your Medicine Cabinet
- NZ’s Got Talent
- My Work Here Is Done - by Mark Weldon
- Self-indulgent Spoiled Brats of the World Unite! - by V for Verity Johnson
- Out There In The Arena - an exclusive extract from Diane Foreman's Biography
- What About Me? - by Jeeves Clifton
- Alex Hazlehust: You've Never Been Loved - by The City of London
- At Least I Am Not on Ashley Madison - by Alex Hazlehurst
- Singing Home The Whale - a Children's book by Nicky and Mandy Hager
- I Will Return - by Dita De Boni
- I Don't Have a Penis, Hear Me Raw - by Rachel Smalley
- Mike's Minute (transcript) - by Mike Hosking
- interest.co.nz
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- Bowalleyroad
- Luxon’s Lack Of Political “Muscle Memory”.
- The Persistence Of Racism: Is the Anti-Racist Cause Winning or Losing?
- Our Maori Future.
- National Must Learn To Be Kind – Or Remain In Opposition.
- In The Lock-Up.
- Winston’s Last Shot At Redemption.
- Secretive Constitutional Reform Is Political Kryptonite.
- A Grim Template.
- Chaotic Destinations.
- Time To Reign.
- 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
- Healing Our Creativity
- Buy Like There's a Tomorrow (and it's magical)
- What The Cool Kids Are Doing
- Talking about Peace without Shouting
- Liberty Scott
- Considering transgenderism from a libertarian perspective
- What is "fair" tax?
- What's wrong with Kiwirail?
- Two types of environmentalism
- A small country far away of which they know nothing
- Greenshirts for Aotearoa
- Is National's proposed water reform enough?
- Good riddance to Sturgeon
- Preventing damaging cyclones
- Abolish the Human RIghts Commission (but give everyone Tino Rangitiratanga)
- Open Parachute
- Reality bites – especially in a war
- Disinformation – what it is, who promotes it, and how to combat it.
- Nord Stream terrorism, UN failure, and “Official Secrets”
- Secret “war-crime” warrants by International Criminal Court is mischief-making
- Getting the full story about Ukraine
- The west vs the rest – the world is changing
- Ukraine commemorates Nazi collaborators
- Do New Zealanders no longer support Ukraine?
- The subtlety of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine – ignored by our media
- Where are Ukrainian refugees going? – an update
- Sciblogs
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- Liberation
- Cartoons about Budget 2021
- Cartoons about public sector worker and CEO pay
- Cartoons about the National Party in 2021
- Cartoons about National Party leader Todd Muller
- John Moore: Podcast on the Politics of the Coronavirus crisis
- 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
- And they wonder why they are hated?
- Time to pay for living high on the hog
- Dreamin' with Luxon
- Exposing scams
- Man made or natural variation?
- Face of the day
- Putting the colonised in their place
- Nothing wrong with that!
- Waka-jumping stars in dancing masterclass
- Luxon confirms National's place on the fence [update]
- Something Should Go Here
- Crickets
- Labour chooses to be fair to beneficiaries
- Morgan Godfery, and the mystery of the inflated job title
- Fact Checkers
- Another church Farrier could raise concerns about
- 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
- Still Around
- Parliamentary Rapist? Try Hugger
- Pundit
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- kiwipolitico
- Media Link: “A View from Afar:” Is Putin a dead man walking?
- The dirty power of culture wars.
- Media Link: ” A View from Afar” first show of 2023.
- NZ and AUKUS PIllar 2.
- ” A View from Afar” returns.
- Gamers, terrorists and spies.
- The zero-sum logic of rightwing culture wars.
- Reality check.
- The return to Big Wars.
- Stuck in two worlds.
- Watching Brief
- Stellar Cafe
- Oamaru Opera House
- Mad March
- A message from OoH Director
- What a Start!!!
- So this is Christmas...
- Aoraki Polytechnic Oamaru Campus Graduation
- Shows at The Oamaru Opera House in 2011
- Oamaru Victorian Heritage Celebrations Programme
- Trash n Treasure This Sunday!!
- Tim Beveridge at The Oamaru Opera House this Saturday night.
- The Great Trash n Treasure Garage Sale November 14th
- Keeping Stock
- Dave Gee life from right field
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- Latitude 44
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