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CPAG Post Budget Special live stream 11.30am today
Streaming live today at 11.30am – CPAG Post Budget special – Guest speakers include senior lecturer in economics Dr Stephen Poletti; Public Health Medicine and Māori Health expert Dr Rhys Jones; and Professor Innes Asher, Starship Children’s Hospital paediatrician and Professor of Paediatrics.
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Extraordinary interview exposes Garth McVicar as anti-science flat earth creationist when it comes to sensible sentencing
Garth McVicar is to reasonable social policy on prisons what ISIS is to inter-faith dialogue.
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Ali Jones rips right wing blogger a “new one” on Radio NZ’s “The Panel”
Unexpected fireworks erupted on Jim Mora’s ‘The Panel’ on Radio NZ yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 15 May) when PR consultant and former Christchurch City Councillor, Ali Jones, took on National Party apparatchik, pollster, wannabe Bond-villain, and right-wing blogger, David Farrar.
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What the online Left don’t get about National Party propaganda
We of the online Left have openly mocked these weird memes which keep showing Jacinda winning as a weird message to use in attempting to denigrate the new Government. What we on the online Left however are missing is that for rump National voters who believe erroneously they were cheated by Jacinda winning, this constant winner framing is rubbing salt in still open wounds.
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Q+A Review
Labour are too frightened to do anything meaningful with Industrial Relations – strong unions are the only mechanism for better equality & Labour recoil at waking the sleeping dogs of the free market debate.
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This interview by Simon Wilson is devastatingly good journalism
There are points during this interview you actually think Dan Bidois is a bot caught out in an AI test…
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The NZ Herald Troll Farm and their predictions of doom for the Left
This isn’t a media holding power to account, this is competitive malice.
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Spinoff 100% right about Waiheke Island Supergold card rip off
We all suspected the Waiheke Ferry Supergold Card scam was bad, but I don’t think anyone knew it was this bad.
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Mike Hosking really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hates Pacific Islanders doesn’t he?
This isn’t the first time Mike has lashed out at Pacific Islanders, but by trying to paint out this aid budget as robbing the poor in NZ to splash cash around for feckless Islanders is ugly, especially because I can’t recall Mike ever articulating any concern for poor people needing access to cheaper health care in his entire media career.