National Government will have increased gross debt by over $100b – Who benefits ?
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Date published: 4:02 pm, August 19th, 2025 - 2 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, Debt, debt / deficit, economy, Economy, grant robertson, infrastructure, jacinda ardern, labour, national/act government, nicola willis, Propaganda
Tags: disinformation, Misinformation
The debt bogeyman has been unleashed in NZ, which we will examine – but even on face value, National Party debt is 25% more than Labour’s full debt contribution over 6 years – with no global pandemic
Open Mike 20/08/25
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Daily review 19/08/2025
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“Dirty Politics” Rachel Glucina Is Behind Nicola Willis PM Rumours
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Date published: 3:32 pm, August 19th, 2025 - 6 comments
Stuff and The Post was eager to repeat rumours of a PM Nicola Willis. Who was behind it?
Open Mike 19/08/25
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Daily review 18/08/2025
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 18th, 2025 - 1 comment
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The $671 million dollar woman
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Date published: 10:18 am, August 18th, 2025 - 23 comments
The Government is trying to spin that cancellation of the ferry contract will cost the country $144 million when the actual figure is at least $671 million.
The Curious Case of Central Otago
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Date published: 8:48 am, August 18th, 2025 - 31 comments
How can a region be so pretty, so rich, but so poor?
Open Mike 18/08/25
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Open Mike 17/08/25
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 17th, 2025 - 19 comments
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Open Mike 16/08/25
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 16th, 2025 - 53 comments
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How was National able to take down construction so quickly?
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Date published: 7:51 pm, August 15th, 2025 - 61 comments
Industry experts say Chris Bishop and his party are to blame, but Bishop denies it, saying construction industry leaders are just “wrong”
Daily review 15/08/2025
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 15th, 2025 - 5 comments
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Open Mike 15/08/25
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 15th, 2025 - 26 comments
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Daily review 14/08/2025
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 14th, 2025 - 3 comments
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Open Mike 14/08/25
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Should Labour attend a set-up?
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Date published: 10:57 pm, August 13th, 2025 - 158 comments
The Government is accusing Labour of all sorts of bad things for not attending the second week of the Covid-19 inquiry.
Daily review 13/08/2025
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 13th, 2025 - 8 comments
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What does this Government have against Te Reo Māori?
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Date published: 12:09 pm, August 13th, 2025 - 14 comments
Erica Stanford’s removal of te reo words from reading books is the latest of a series of attacks on te reo Māori by this Government.
Open Mike 13/08/25
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Daily review 12/08/2025
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Helen Clark on Palestine
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Date published: 3:39 pm, August 12th, 2025 - 31 comments
“This is a catastrophic situation and here we are in New Zealand somehow arguing some fine point about whether we should recognise. We need to be adding our voice to the need for this catastrophe to stop.”
Ani O’Brien’s weird take on homelessness
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Date published: 11:14 am, August 12th, 2025 - 28 comments
Ani O’Brien thinks that claims by Chloe Swarbrick that the Government is intentionally increasing homelessness are engaging in hyperbole and are not true. But who is the person engaging in hyperbole?
Open Mike 12/08/25
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Daily review 11/08/2025
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 11th, 2025 - 3 comments
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Good, Democratic, Easy-To-Support Energy Policies
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Date published: 8:43 am, August 11th, 2025 - 16 comments
How to make fundamental changes to the country’s energy systems to ensure that future supply is sustainable and democratically controlled/
Open Mike 11/08/25
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 11th, 2025 - 93 comments
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Open Mike 09/08/25
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2025 - 33 comments
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Daily review 08/08/2025
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 8th, 2025 - 11 comments
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National Party wants to sell / exchange up to 67% of NZ’s conservation lands
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Date published: 3:50 pm, August 8th, 2025 - 42 comments
National say they will “unleash growth”. That may be by selling / exchanging 5 million hectares of conservation land, much of it with “high ecological value” – representing 2/3 of the entire estate.
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