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Tolling revolt brewing in National heartland
Locals in Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay & Manawatu outraged over Simeon Brown’s plan to toll new highway replacing the closed Manawatu Gorge road; First big…
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5:20
Driving blind at higher speeds
Dozens of experts plead in open letter to Government to drop plans for faster speed limits, arguing it will lead to more deaths, higher health costs…
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6:07
Govt may kick elderly out of hospitals
Reti wants to ‘free up’ 200,000 hospital bed nights/year, which Costello may do by moving sick elderly into residential care & raising ‘fragility level…
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48 seconds on a plan that would reverberate for a million years
Cathrine Dyer & Bernard Hickey chat about the week's big climate news, including fears over a Trump victory, Australian tourism's climate risks, and the…
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4:52
Using blunt instruments and magical thinking to ignore evidence of harm
A Saturday soliloquoy on how the new Govt’s laser-like focus on debt reduction and use of blunt instruments and magical thinking is wreaking havoc in…
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13:10
Treasury warned Govt lower debt limits meant less ‘productivity-enhancing investment’
Budget papers show Treasury preferred 50% net debt limit to 20-40% range adopted by Govt; Treasury warned lower debt target risked Govt “passing up on…
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How Substack works to take (some) craziness out of America's elections
Co-founder Hamish McKenzie explains how Substack's focus on subscriptions avoids the algorythmic reflexes of ad-driven social media to ramp up outrage…
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4:11
ACC wants to administer inflation at more than double the RBNZ’s target rate
ACC proposes fee hikes of 16-33% for cars, households and businesses over next three years; Big new fees proposed for EV drivers and small businesses…
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4:26
An average 219 NZers migrated each day in July
230 mill workers were made redundant yesterday and half say they're planning to migrate; A new campaign is launched to win control of Entrust and…
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 • Bernard Hickey
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Our State of The Kākā Nation 2024
 • Bernard Hickey
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Paying for tax cuts by not funding insulin pumps and glucose monitors for disabled kids
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176
The National Development Act (1979) redux
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The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Thursday, July 18
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