GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Two Results And A Foreboding
If you’re not interested in politics or rugby then you probably got more sleep than I did last night.
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GUEST BLOG: Kevin List – State of Play: What’s Happening to Kiwibank and How Many Branches Are Closing?
Evening Report looks into the separation of Kiwibank from New Zealand Post, and considers the impact on the public’s access to banking services in their communities. Kiwibank. What’s going on?
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Police trial: Armed police in special vehicles to be on regular patrol
For once in a long list of condemnations by me of police shooting people and avoiding the Courts where their culpability for killing should be determined – rather than the IPCA aka “Boys Club”.
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GUEST BLOG: Wade Bishop – why bamboo toothbrushes, tote-bags, cups-for-life & living “woke” isn’t enough
F*** all: that’s the amount of effect you can have on the volume of plastic coming into the system and our environment by getting your toilet paper delivered in a cardboard carton, switching to a bamboo toothbrush, taking hemp tote-bags to the supermarket and getting all retro with glass milk bottles
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – TOP COP WARNS: The gangs are trying to corrupt the police!
This siren call, I suggest, is another clarion for more resources.
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GUEST BLOG: Rachel Stewart – the column the NZ Herald didn’t publish
Rachel Stewart is a Canon Media Award winning columnist and former writer at the NZ Herald.
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GUEST BLOG: Christine Dann – Full steam ahead for the Climate Change Corporation?
The day after the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw announced that he had appointed Rod Carr to be Chair of the non-existent* Climate Change Commission, my partner Martin received a begging letter from Shaw asking him to donate $80 today to Shaw’s party to “show that the fight against climate change will be won through people power and not by corporate interests.”
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – Speech relaunching TOP
Instead of looking to the past, TOP will hold the balance of power and force career politicians to face up to the future. We stand for fundamental change. I understand change is scary for a lot of people. But as they say if you don’t like change, you are going like irrelevance even less.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – TOP Brand Launch
People have switched off from politics completely and it is hard to blame them. To win people back we have to tap into that frustration, but we also have to entertain people and offer hope. That is the thinking behind TOP’s new approach.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Thank you School Strike 4 Climate Change
I’ve been to a lot of protest marches in my time but yesterday’s Climate Change march organised by school students…