The Daily Blog Open Mic – 13th December 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day. The Editor…
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Fast food workers appalled at minimum wage announcement
Unite Union is appalled by the proposed below inflation adjustment to the minimum wage for 2026. The announced rate is…
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Minimum wage won’t keep up with high cost of living – Labour
The Government’s piddly minimum wage bump is a pay cut in real terms for New Zealanders. “Just like Christopher Luxon,…
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Govt’s Christmas gift to workers: An effective pay cut – Greens
The Government’s announcement today of a measly two per cent increase to minimum wage is another blow for workers. “This…
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Govt abandons NZ’s climate credibility with shameful methane bill – Greenpeace
“Utterly shameful”. That’s Greenpeace Aotearoa’s response to the Government’s new methane targets following the first reading of the Climate Change…
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PSA & Firefighters Union attending mediation over FENZ job losses
The PSA and the NZ Professional Firefighters Union will today attend mediation with Fire and Emergency NZ after the Employment…
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My Final Word: the Left is losing & 2026 could be too late
This week, Martyn gives it to the Left straight: the final TVNZ poll of 2025 is a body blow —…
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Australia banning under 16s from social media harm isn’t going far enough
What is it with the Right always refusing to force producers of toxic products from paying for the social cost…
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Misusing urgency to ram through controversial legislation is an abuse of power
Too many laws passing without ‘proper scrutiny’, Geoffrey Palmer says A former Labour Prime Minister says Parliament is passing too…
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Mortgage rates will go up next year. How will that impact the election & the economy?
“How out of touch can you be”” Political leaders react as bank hikes mortgage rates Finance Minister Nicola Willis…
