GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – RUNNING MATES
Unless National embrace a running mate to go into the next election, they are dead in the water.
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Brief statement from Waikato DHB Board member Dave Macpherson
Dave Macpherson became an Elected Waikato DHB Board member after the DHB killed his son, he is TDBs mental health blogger.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Another rogue poll
Ever since Mike Hosking raised his hands to calm down the stewing National Party wildebeests on 13th February 2019 and declared that there was no need to panic about one rogue poll, more rogue polls have confirmed the first one.
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TV ONE POLL: Labour 48%, National 40%, Greens 6%, NZ First 4%, ACT 1%
Judith Collins will wait for Bridges to crash out in the 2020 election before she strikes.
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If Jacinda wants to lead the International Agenda, offer Assange asylum
Pilger’s incredible critique of the Assange issues makes for fearful reading. If Jacinda wishes to stride the International stage with real purpose and mana, she should offer Assange asylum as a direct stance of independence for NZ and as a defender of journalism and free speech.
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Recognising Hate Speech When You See It.
In that universe, Ghahraman would be calming down her more zealous followers: warning them that unreasoning zealotry is always the problem – never the solution. She would also be reassuring them that New Zealand’s statute books already contain plenty of legal remedies against dangerously hateful expression.
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I hope I never piss Phil Quin off
The redefining of hate speech laws is a debate we desperately need to have because the hate speech is coming.
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Tell Gluckman he’s dreaming and why George Monbiot is the only answer
We need a publicly accessible virtual town hall to debate issues like adults, not trigger free safe space echo chambers. Without that the electorate will continue to remain one dominated by the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind.
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Pt Chev are being targeted to manufacture attention
As NZ wrestles with hate speech vs free speech, the anti-Māori crowd have maliciously attempted to force themselves divisively into the debate…
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Dr Liz Gordon – The speed of school reform
Under the third Labour government, Roger Douglas ran a reform process of the Blitzkrieg variety. Essentially the idea (which came from the Right in the US) was to carry out state sector reform (and destruction) so quickly and so seamlessly that it would take the public years to understand what had happened.