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		<title>Is Hobson&#8217;s Pledge interest in Tania Waikato a bit, you know, focused?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ummmmm. It&#8217;s all a bit much eh? Green Party candidate Tania Waikato turns Hobson’s Pledge political attack into campaign funding...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chippy&#8217;s backdown on Wealth Tax highlights why the Left needs John Tamihere&#8217;s Maori Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 02:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To attempt a wealth tax as Grant Robertson has done via the official channels he did was always doomed to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>3 ways to save Tertiary Education but should we?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mayor, ex-PM join call for Government to &#8216;Save Tertiary Education&#8217; Former prime minister Helen Clark, Wellington mayor Tory Whanau, and...]]></description>
		
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		<title>More Childcare, Bank review and Wealth Tax &#8211; why are Labour more conservative than what people are calling for?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 02:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is going to be a weird election. National are making inroads on Early Childcare and a demand to review...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Working Group with NBR Journalist Maria Slade , National MP Chris Penk + Stuff Columnist Damien Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The number 1 weekly political podcast THAT IS STILL NOT FUNDED BY NZ ON AIR This week NBR Journalist Maria...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Political Roundup: National is failing to inspire voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Labour’s Hamilton West by-election loss at the weekend has been widely described as a disaster for the party, illustrating just...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waatea News Column: Incentivising Guilty Pleas the worst idea ever</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are few times when a social policy is so cruel, so perverse in its outcomes and so dangerous that almost every thinking person must stand united to stop it.
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		<title>What is happening in Texas right now is a glimpse of our collective climate crisis future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As what is happening in Texas starts becoming the norm, people will rebel against the limitations of the current systems of power.]]></description>
		
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		<title>MEDIA WATCH: Sweet Jesus not MORE public money for The Spinoff, NZ Herald and Stuff?</title>
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					<comments>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/media-watch-sweet-jesus-not-more-public-money-for-the-spinoff-nz-herald-and-stuff/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Current Government policy is simply adding more money to Corporate News to cover the news they should be covering anyway and to fund echo chambers of elite opinion so that the Spinoff Story gets posted on RNZ who then co post it on Stuff who then co post it on Newshub.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Latest Northland Covid Outbreak: The only political test that matters for Labour in 2021</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/latest-northland-covid-outbreak-the-only-political-test-that-matters-for-labour-in-2021/</link>
					<comments>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/latest-northland-covid-outbreak-the-only-political-test-that-matters-for-labour-in-2021/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the vast chunk of New Zealand who voted Labour in 2020, those problems can all continue AS LONG AS Jacinda protects us from Covid.]]></description>
		
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