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MUST READ GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – Is Jacinda’s ‘Nuclear-free moment’ on climate change nothing more than a bumper sticker?
ByThe Daily Blog 30 January 201931 December 2025

Our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, stated that climate change was her generations ‘nuclear-free moment’, yet when we consider actual environmental policy to date, we can conclude that this ‘moment’ is little more than a feel good nuclear free bumper sticker. This criticism is not just levelled at our Government, the latest research shows it can be made against almost every Government.

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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Tell Simon he’s dreaming!
ByThe Daily Blog 30 January 201931 December 2025

Simon thinks starting a new Green Party that doesn’t have a social conscience is the next big thing to save National from having no mates at the 2020 election.

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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – The lesson for indigenous peoples from MAGA hat incident
ByThe Daily Blog 29 January 2019

One lesson to be learned from this incident…

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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Media silence about police investigation for 103 days
ByThe Daily Blog 29 January 2019

On 17th October 2018 former National MP Jami-Lee Ross emerged from the Victoria Street police station in Wellington after filing a complaint on leader Simon Bridges.

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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Auckland Mayoralty 2019
ByThe Daily Blog 29 January 2019

If I’m in Auckland, I will have the chance to vote for him.

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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – VENEZUELA: To be or not to be?
ByThe Daily Blog 29 January 2019

I don’t claim to be an expert on Latin America (I do claim to have substance when it comes to parts of the Middle East and Russia), but the following data is pretty reliable and presented for your cogitation as you ponder more impending WORLD chaos.

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GUEST BLOG: Nick Dearden – Big Tech should be taxed and regulated – but the Davos elite wants to give Amazon and Facebook even more power
ByThe Daily Blog 28 January 2019

This morning a group of mostly rich countries used the World Economic Forum in Davos to call for negotiations on digital trade. This is ‘next big thing’ in trade talks: trying to create global rules to govern rapidly increasing online trade and accompanying flows of data (the so-called ‘oil’ of the new economy).

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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Stacey Kirk and the disinterested pursuit of the truth
ByThe Daily Blog 28 January 2019

Journalists should be interested in their pursuit of the truth here – not sweep this stuff aside.

National had successfully told the press to bugger off and talk about something else – like Karel Sroubek for five weeks.

Now Ross was guilty of bringing up the matters they thought they had artfully dodged.

None of this context was covered in Stacey’s article today.

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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Delusion of Davos
ByThe Daily Blog 28 January 2019

The idea that when world leaders meet in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos to discuss economic issues that the assembled politicians are somehow in charge of the global economy is a delusion.

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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Thank you everyone for the support
ByThe Daily Blog 26 January 2019

In 2007, High Court Judge Sir Ron Young sentenced me to 4 years . Today, as Chair of the Parole Board Panel , he released me, saying “You have done what you can in prison. To keep you in custody would be without purpose. It would be vindictive,”

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